Let’s Collaborate!
Do you know about Spotify's Collaborative Playlist feature? It's a great way to share playlists with friends, fellow instructors and even members at your gym or club. When you use this Spotify feature, others can share, edit and add to your original playlist. Sound...
I Ordered My New Instructor Bike
Here's a picture of my new Instructor bike - a VeloVie Vitesse 300 road bike. Ain't she a beauty? Showing this stock photo because I don't actually have it home yet. I've ordered it under our new PRO/Purchase Program we've negotiated with the awesome people who own...
Free Music Friday 3/8
Rule #1 when you're stuck in a music rut - look for someone to help pull you out! And I followed this rule today in my search for inspiration for this weeks track - ICG Master Trainer Vanessa Wilkins is providing our song and she doesn't even know it 🙂 That's the...
Sticker Shock
$12,000.00 for a bicycle? Could you afford a bike that costs anything approaching 5 figures? With the partial blessings of the SGFI (Senior Group Fitness Instructor) I've decided that it was time for John to have a new road bike. But this Specialized S-Works bicycle...
NEWS FLASH – IPHONE CATCHES UP WITH ANDROID!
No idea why it took them so long, but the Spotify App for iPhones has finally added an Instructor friendly feature that Android users have had (it seems) forever. If you are running your class on an iPhone you will recognise this frustration right away > the need...
Intermittent Issues With New ICI/PRO Registrations
Technology is a wonderful thing - when it works 🙁 For some reason we've seen a bunch of Instructors having issues registering as ICI/PRO members today. We've tested it multiple times successfully, and yet we're aware of at least 5 new...
Why Train Indoors When The Weather Is Great?
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Daylight Savings Time and warm weather are fast approaching. Students will begin to alter their training schedules to include more outdoor riding. I’ve always encouraged that. In teaching an authentic method of indoor cycling...
ICI/PRO Podcast # 254 Push Your Threshold Audio PROfile with Kristen Dillon
Spinning® Instructor Kristen Dillon was another of the winners in our Ultimate Instructor Class Profile Contest with her; Push Your Threshold Audio PROfile! Kristen trains cyclists at the Beach City Health and Fitness. The club is located in/on Hilton Head Island, SC...
ICI Podcast 253 Can Exercise be Effortless?
Endurance Coach and Author Grant Molyneux joins us to discuss his book Effortless Exercise and its importance in actually enjoying exercise, while building aerobic fitness & endurance, vs. dreading the thought that it is time to thrash yourself on the bike yet...
Free Music Friday 2/29 – no make that 3/1
Continuing with the two themes: ‘zippy’ and ‘a good flat road can be challenging to find’, here is flat road song (the jackpot really, because this band’s top 5 hits on Spotify are ALL excellent flat roads ranging from 85-88 rpm’s. I am going to use all of...