Free Music Friday 4/12
Some music is "interesting". I'm not quite sure how else to describe it. Catchy, invigorating and instantly (to me anyways) ID'd as a track I would Shazam. But this time I didn't need to. All it took to discover the name was walking into older daughter Abby's room and...
Earn some free CEC’s this weekend
If you are a group fitness instructor my discovery could save you some money. My ACE cert is due for renewal this Summer and I need .6 ACE continuing ed credits, and quick. I looked at the ACEfitness.com site for some online CECs and found two courses that I thought...
ICI Podcast 260 Understanding Heart Rate Variability HRV and measuring HRV using the ithlete iPhone app
When should you go hard... and when should you take it easy? It's a great question. Often our response depends on very subjective feelings = we may think we know, but we really aren't completely sure. As Jim Karanas pointed out in his Intervals post this week, we are...
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...