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...
Counting Time In Spotify
When does 25+25+25 not equal 75? When you're adding up segments of song segments of 25 secs - the correct answer is 1:15 - but I'm guessing that you already knew that. I love Spotify. With the exception of downloading Podcasts, I have nearly eliminated iTunes from my...
Making Things Easier To Find Here
I'm a very "random" person - just ask anyone who know's me - in that I'm not one for long term planning. That's why I so enjoy operating ICI/PRO... when I discover or hear something (or someone) that sounds like it would be of interest to you, I post about it or try...
Free Music Friday 9/28
Mashups - there's a real art to blending two or more songs together into something that's entertaining and enjoyable to play in your class. Some, like the tracks from DJ Lobsterdust that Amy is so fond of, are pure magic - other's, not so much. So I thought I would...
My Radical Solution to Solving Spotify Problems & Frustrations
After receiving and answering what seems like hundreds of questions that are similar to Kristi's below, I'm offering a radical solution that I feel will dramatically improve your experience using Spotify. Hi John! Thank you for your quick response…I’m just now...
ICI/PRO Podcast 229 3 Steps to Creating the Ultimate Instructor Class Profile that Riders Remember
Today begins the start of the Ultimate Instructor Class Profile Contest part deux! The Grand Prize winner will receive All-Inclusive accommodations on a working fitness vacation, at any of the 65 Caribbean Resorts available at FitnessProTravel.com + $500...
Free Music Friday 9/21
You'll need to excuse me as I wrap myself in some favorite drug music of my youth today. I've been building a playlist to use with the new Pensacola Stage Race video. The first half was easy. Basic stuff; a warmup + a few openers for the 10 minute Road Race. Then a...
The pride of mastering something that’s hard to learn
"Dad, how am I going to learn to drive this?" was the question asked by my older daughter Abby, while I was negotiating the purchase of a well-cared-for Mazda 626. She would soon become know as "Murph" as in "Murphys Law" after the brakes failed - with Abby skillfully...