Free Music Friday 11/8
John's been talking a lot about harmonic blending lately and it reminded me of my favorite mash up DJ. IMHO, nobody blends better than this guy! Originally from Israel, he now reigns from New York City and has a blast digitally deconstructing and reconstructing music...
A Winter Wonderland Needs Winterizing
Snow is predicted here in MN for later today. Oh joy! We're busy 'winterizing' our houses, cabins, cars, motorcycles, bikes, boats, water toys, lawnmowers, etc. In fact, I ran down to the office to ask John if we'd blown out the sprinkler system yet. (After 25 years...
Training With Power Workshop Prep
I'm presenting a series of workshops this month for our "Club Athletes". Here are the workshop descriptions Training With Power 101 - Learning the Language of Power Workshop Now that we're riding Indoor Cycles with computers/monitors, you've got questions and we want...
Can you hear the difference?
Stripes & Plaid, Pink & Yellow and Brussels sprouts with anything, some things just don't pair well with others. My short education on Harmonic Mixing has me learning that there are excellent music tracks, that by themselves are awesome. But just like you can...
ICI Podcast 288 – Ready for a RateYourBurn.com review?
RateYourBurn.com is a review site for fitness instructors who teach in select US cities. RateYourBurn founder Gillian Casten joins me to discuss her vision for this popular Instructor review site + shares a few of her observations and potential strategies you can use...
Spotify Training Sunday Afternoon
We're planning our second live Spotify training for this Sunday 11/3 @ 5:00 central time. The training will be conducted over Skype. My preference is to keep the group small so we have time to answer everyone's questions = this is open to the first 8 Instructors...
Free Music Friday 11/1
Happy November! Today's Free Music Friday started out in the normal fashion: -Hear a tune I like -Find it in Spotify -Use it in a class profile; if it works well, check SoundCloud to see if there is a decent free download for you to use in your class. If there is,...
Smooth like Butta and They Liked It!
As an experiment this morning, I taught Dennis Mellon's ICI/PRO Podcast 287 A little Bit of Everything Audio Class PROfile and used his harmonically mixed playlist. They appeared to like it and two members asked for the playlist after class. I realize that it's a...
The Eyes Have It
Dark Circles...Puffiness...Wrinkles...Loss of Firmness...Dryness... Every time I'm in store, women (and some men) ask for an eye cream that will truly addresses these issues. Through the years, I've had the opportunity to try many (many!) eye creams. Some I've...
Life Time Fitness to unveil their new EDGE Cycling format & LT Connect Heart Rate Display System
Updated 10/30 below Short notice... it's tomorrow night. Here's the email invitation I received: EDGE Cycle kick-off with Bahram Akradi & quests This will be the 1st class offering in Minnesota of our “new” EDGE CYCLE signature Indoor cycle format! Expect to have...