Training with Power
Does anyone know anything about this?
I stumbled across this new power monitoring system that displays your data on a big screen + saves your data so you can compare your efforts from class to class. More evidence of the emergence of Indoor Cycling 2.0! From http://flywheelsports.com/experience/studio...
The Ultimate Instructor Class Profile Contest
There's nothing I enjoy more, than giving voice to up-and-coming stars in our industry. I love giving others the chance to shine! Since August of 2008, The Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast has introduced dozens of talented people to thousands of Instructors,...
“Without Form, You Got Nothing”
Coming Home Recently, during a visit to my parents, I had the urge to visit my old High School. Upon arriving, Track was in session, so I took a walk down glory lane as memories of my High and Long Jumping career came rushing back. Surprisingly, all 3 of my track...
Starting Your Own Evidence Based Cycling Program – Blog Post #4
Gil our guinea pig is training for our next EBC (Evidence Based Cycling) project. The problem is his bike is in the shop, so he might just have to sit this one out. Unless you have a whole team of guinea pigs as talented as Gil, you will have to recruit students or...
Free Music Friday – Audition Music for 4/20
In my post yesterday about auditioning as a Life Time Fitness Instructor, if I only had three minutes to show my stuff... what music would I use? I suggested that you should use a track that you enjoy teaching to. Now I'm re-thinking it... I actually auditioned at...
National Sleep Apnea Day
Ask my family, of the three components of fitness (Training - Nutrition - Rest) which is most important to me and without hesitation they will say Rest! Or in my case Sleep! I'm habitual in my sleep habits because a good night's sleep is paramount to my effectiveness...
Free Music Friday 4/13
Our 21 year old, Abby, was home from college last weekend, and was cranking the tunes out of her computer, as usual. This normally causes endless eye rolling and much sighing from the rest of us, but not this time! John looked at me and said, “This needs to be the...
Tech Tuesday – Help Printing Articles
Question from a PRO member; Hi John, I'm having some printing format problems with some of the recent postings, including today's topic. When I go to print the document there is only an all black color sheet shown and printed. I thought something must be awry with my...
Free Music Friday 4/6
We've got this fabulous Public Radio station here in Minneapolis; The Current. Best described as Eclectic, you never really know what's coming next... but you'll probably like it 🙂 With Amy still in Mexico I was listening to the Current this morning when they...
Based on Science, Used in Medicine – Blog Post #2
Until I took the red pill (see initial post), I spent 95% of my working life in healthcare; specifically workflow methods and technology. As I got more and more involved on the clinical side of the equation, I began to learn about a distinct approach to the real life...
ICI/PRO Podcast #207 – Understanding FTP Functional Threshold Power with Cameron Chinatti
Functional Threshold Power, better known as FTP, is the basis for establishing individual training zones using power/watts. Now that I'm teaching power based classes I've developed some questions about FTP and asked STAGES Indoor Cycling's Cameron Chinatti to answer...