New TowelMateâ„¢ Fitness Club & Studio Towel Protects Your New iPhone While You Workout
Does your Health/Fitness Club have a sign like this in the locker room? And a similar sign in the parking lot saying essentially the same thing? You shouldn't leave your your new 4G iPhone or wallet in your car or the club's locker, so what do you do? Bring them on...
Do you deserve a raise?
What I've described as the "SoulCycle Effect" appears to have caused a nice jump in the starting rate for IC Instructors. At many new boutique studios, the $50 - $75 per class rate advertised is the starting base pay rate. Consistently fill the room and the added $'s...
ICI Podcast 50 Celebrating Independence (from Spinning) day!
This Podcast is was originally published on July 4, 2009, I have updated it with our new Podcast host information and I am representing it now. I hope you enjoy it, Joey Give up your Studio’s Spinning credentials because you want to use a different Indoor...
Taking the Indoors Outside
When a friend and I returned from a cycling trip in Croatia last June my IC classes were curious about the experience and I told them lots of stories. One day I mused “Now that we have done some hills in Europe I guess it’s time to do the hills here at home....
Are you OK hearing yourself speak?
Some of us aren't comfortable hearing our own voice. Do you remember hearing the sound of your amplified or recorded voice for the first time? After recording 240 interviews I have learned that many (if not most) Instructors don't like to hear themselves speak. I'll...
Teach Cycle-and-Row Like a Pro
If you’re about to start teaching a class that includes both cycling and rowing, here are a few tips. Stay off the bike. To handle all the variables in a cycling/rowing class, you’ll need to be on your feet, moving around the room. Will you warm up?...
Crazy Climbs and Hip Openers?
By Team ICG® Trainer Elliott Bringman Growing up cycling and swimming, I never knew that without a flexibility regimen, the muscles would tighten more and more and, cumulatively, end up rigid. Rigidity, in the long run, decreases range of motion, which is detrimental...
ICI Podcast #181 – Meet our new partner! The Indoorcycling Group (ICG) / LIVESTRONG® Fitness!
My original concept for the Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast back in 2008 was simple and yet unique; use the power of an Internet Radio Show, delivered through iTunes, to provide a platform for the many voices in our industry. The show wouldn't be "about me" or a few...
ICI/PRO Podcast # 219 Welcome To The Jungle from Krista Leopold, aka GroupFitPower
Meet Instructor Krista Leopold - another of our winners in the Ultimate Instructor Profile contest! Pedal-On members will recognize Krista as GroupFitPower. Welcome to the Jungle - An introduction to Tabatas is a well thought out profile that you can use to bring this...
Why Try Spotify?
As an indoor cycling instructor, you already know that music plays an important part in creating an exceptionally motivating class. But sometimes, searching for new music and developing playlists can be time consuming and costly. Since iTunes came out with its...