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...
ICI/PRO Podcast # 257 Use Subbing to Market Yourself
Great ideas here for our new Instructors! Leverage opportunities to fill in by sharing and showcasing brand "you." Certified fitness professional and fitness writer Stephanie Vlach and I discusses how Instructors can leverage subbing opportunities to market themselves...
Free Music Friday – IHRSA Addition 3/22
I had Shazam working overtime as I moved from one manufacture's booth to the other this week. During one of Chuck Cali's MyRide+ demo rides, I caught this epic finale of his last climb. It's an interesting track. The "Big Finish" of E.S. Posthumus — Ushas comes with...
Tons of New Indoor Cycling Tech at IHRSA
Updated 3/23 I had a chance to walk through the show as exhibitors were putting the last minute touches on their booths and shot a few pictures. I'll be updating this post as I get each file uploaded this morning - Internet is very slow here. I felt like Charlie...
I’m excited to see __________________ at IHRSA!
I'm heading to IHRSA today and there's a bunch of new Indoor Cycling related products I'm aware of + a few rumors of new products to be launched this year. I'm really excited to see/ride/experience & hear what other's have to say - and then report back for you....
Free Music Friday 3/15
This week's track has a somewhat split personality, a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde if you will... with you in complete control of the personality through the volume you play it. I found Passenger — Let Her Go while listening to ICI/PRO Member Soigneur Jennifer Lintz's...
My Instructor Bike Arrived Yesterday
My new Carbon Fiber VeloVie 300 Vitesse was delivered yesterday! Now if the weather would improve and melt all of this dang snow, I could actually get out and ride it. I purchased my new Instructor Bike (I give everything a nick-name... our Trek Tandem is called The...
Which Bicycle Should I Buy?
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas If you teach an authentic style of Indoor Cycling and pattern your classes after riding a real bicycle, invariably students who have not ridden a bike for many years will ask you the above question. Unless you are an avid rider...