A Good Reason to Come Back
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Chuck Cali “Indoor cycling instructors!! As you 'teach' your class this week ask yourself- am I using this time to effectively TRAIN these people or am I using every trick in the book to just be an 'entertaining distraction'?? And yes,...
Free Sound Effects Friday – 30 Minutes of Bicycle Racing Audio From EpicPlanet.tv
Special treat from Allen Jones at EpicPlanet.tv - 30 minutes of audio from an actual Criterium bike race you can use to add realism to any Race Day profile! It starts with the Race Director announcing "Cat 4 racers... take your mark, get set, go!!!! Then it ends with...
Osteogenic Loading and the Indoor Cyclist
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas - Many factors contribute to osteopenia and osteoporosis in cyclists. Both conditions are associated with low bone mineral density and a reduction in the bone mass that is sufficient to interfere with its support function....
Studio Owner's and Manager's Should Fix This ASAP
Teaching a great class is important to building your attendance numbers, but new students need to first find your studio. Mobile search has become very important with 10's of millions of smart phone users and we've talked here before about the need to claim and update...
Pearl Izumi Bibs – A quick cure for my muffin top
"John what is THAT?" Amy was looking at me with a very disapproving look on her face. "What's what?" I responded as I straightened up from filling the back tire of The Bus - our Tandem bicycle - with 120lbs of air. "Over the top of your bike shorts... you have a...
Free Music Friday – 10/12
Do you know how train Siri to do a specific task? I've been trying to get her to respond to "Siri, Shazam this" but I'm not having any success. Any ideas? I was an instant fan of Moby's Extreme Ways the moment I heard it in the movie theater. If I remember correctly,...
Did You Accept The Spotify Challenge?
In my last post, ‘Why Try Spotify’, I put out a challenge for you all to give Spotify Premium a try. My hope was that you would begin using it to create and share your playlists and deliver music to your cycling classes. Judging from the overwhelming response that...
Best Practices For Professional Indoor Cycling Instructors
We've added a new category (which are one of the ways we organize content) called Best Practices - clicking that link will display all posts and Podcasts that we feel are the Best Practices for that particular subject. One of our objectives here at ICI/PRO is, with...
Effective Management – Instructor Communication
Joe Ducosin runs CycleQuest Studio in Eden Prairie, MN with his awesome wife Patti. Joe's great at communicating with his Instructor's and has given me permission to share his "Pre Season reminders for Instructors" with you. You can download a pdf of this here. I...
Free Music Friday 10/5 – Is it really October already?
They say you only get one chance to make a first impression, and your opening warm up track is just like that. Now there are many ways to approach this all important opening to your class. I for one am a big advocate of using tracks that allow your riders to focus on...