ICI/PRO Podcast # 259 – Racing with Pros Extended Criteriums Audio PROfile from Instructor Dave Santiago
Instructor Dave Santiago presents his Racing with Pros - Extended Criteriums class profile. Dave teaches at the Wilson, NC YMCA - where it sounds like he's built a nice following of both outdoor and indoor cyclists. Object and Intensity The “The Racing with Pros” is a...
Still waiting to ride my new bike
What happened to the promises of global warming? Younger daughter Carly turned 19 on April's Fools day. The day we brought her home from the hospital (some days you can never forget) was a beautiful Spring day... bright, sunny and in the 70s. Today is April 6th and as...
Free Music Friday – 4/5
Intensity. I'm not aware of anything that would be more intense than riding a motorcycle through city streets, at speeds approaching 200MPH! So if I was producing a video like the one below and it featured some very intense footage from last year's Isle Of Man TT road...
Adding cues to an iTunes playlist on your iPhone or iPad
UPDATE: App developer Dave Norfleet is available to answer your questions posted below as a comment. Schwinn Master Trainer Julz Arney showed me an interesting iPhone app when we met at IHRSA. She's been using this app to build her class playlists and was really...
Motivation vs. Enthusiasm
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Joan Kent Do any of your students struggle with motivation? Have any of them missed classes, perhaps several in a row, because they “just didn’t feel motivated”? For a number of years, I’ve been an instructor/nutritionist for a...
Free Music Friday – 3/29
Spotify is a lot like Facebook… - You can see what your friends are listening to - You can follow your friends - You can spend a lot of time on it - Sometimes you have no idea how your ‘time travels’ landed you where they did! That’s how this week’s Friday...
That's not what they're singing dad…
Can I see a show of hands here? How many of you have sung along to a favorite tune for years, in the safety of your car/shower or (God forbid) over the Instructor Mic, only to learn that you have some of the lyrics completely wrong? Or looked at from the other...
Are we faster now?
Sorry for the outages yesterday. We've made some substantial changes to the back end of indoorcycleinstructor.com to accommodate our growth in members and site traffic. Depending on where you live, we were back up last night around 6:00PM Central Time - the Internet...
Could You Lose Your Job To A Video?
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas IHRSA 2013 demonstrated a major increase in club owners’ interest in virtual indoor cycling classes — rides led by a virtual coach or voice-over using Forward Motion Video (FMV). No instructor present. It was apparent at the...
Quick, random bits from IHRSA
Las Vegas IHRSA was exhausting, consuming and exhilarating, all at the same time. With the exception of enjoying some adult beverages outdoors with Bill Pryor and Barbara Hoots on Wednesday night, between Tuesday night and Friday morning I never stepped outside the...