Congratulations Doug Rusho – New Master Instructor with Stages Indoor Cycling!
It's with great pleasure (and a bit of pride) that I get to announce ICI/PRO member and frequent contributor Doug Rusho has joined the Stages Indoor Cycling team as a Master Instructor! ICI/PRO members have enjoyed a number of Doug's Audio PROfiles and he did a great...
ICI/PRO Podcast #193 – ZENDURANCE (20 min verison) Audio PROfile
Happy New Year! Let's kick off a fabulous 2012 indoor season with ZENDURANCE - our latest Audio PROfile from Master Instructor Jim Karanas! The difference between "just riding" and training is that, when training, you recognize that every workout has a purpose. This...
Register for our next LIVE Training – Learning to use Spotify Premium
You can register for our next LIVE online training scheduled for Sunday 7:00pm Central Time on January 8th 2012. Learning to use Spotify Premium* is the topic. We will be reviewing everything you need to know to create and share playlists in Spotify and then deliver...
Free Music Friday 12/30/2011
Here is a nice inspirational tune from a band out of Aurora, Colorado to use coming out of, or leading into a climb, with rpm’s of 73. There is some nice points where you could add your voice to coach and guide your class, with inspirational cueing or storytelling,...
Is the 45 minute class a thing of the past?
I was talking to Allen Jones from Epic Planet Indoor Cycling DVDs today about my preferred length of class videos. I told him all my classes are 60 minutes long - except for my Sunday 90 minute endurance classes. I also told him my impression is that most clubs have...
2012 Dashboard Video
Tech Tuesday – I'm now free to ride anywhere in my class
I'm now completely free to position myself anywhere in my class, with complete control of my music thanks to a tip from PRO Member Instructor Chuck Gauran. In this earlier post I discussed using Chuck's tip for using a BlueTooth receiver to connect my iPhone to the...
Happy 93rd Birthday Pinkhouse!
Here's a walking testament to the utter fallacy of (220 - your age) as a predictor of Maximum Heart Rate. Paul Pinkhouse Camerer is having his 93rd birthday today. To celebrate the occasion, Pinkhouse and a few of his friends will all train together at his...
Who Is This Jim Karanas, Anyway?
Jim’s been writing weekly posts for ICI-Pro recently, and John asked me to answer that question from my perspective. This post is based on a letter I wrote last year when a group of instructors and students nominated Jim for IDEA Instructor of the Year. In my...
Free Music Friday 12/23
Today is simply all about fun. And climbing. With lots of load. 3 minutes and 52 seconds of climbing with lots of load at rpm’s of 58. When this song comes on, we get up out of the saddle with a smile on our face and pretty much just crank it up. In good form of...