Training with Power
I’ll Take One Swift Kick in The Ass, Please.
We have become a nation of excuse makers. Instead of admitting we are lazy, we say we are busy. Instead of being honest about our eating, we claim we just “can”™t seem to do anything to lose weight”. Instead of being disciplined with our time, we complain that...
Flats
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas - When you ride a bicycle, you must master four major skills — climbing, descending, sprinting, and riding on a flat road. Climbs are like books, with a beginning, a middle and an end. You shift your position on the bike as the...
Free Music Friday – 2/3
A two-person song, with a two-person perspective for today with some meaningful lyrics to boot! This 65 rpm climb has beautiful instrumentals and harmonies that build, with call outs at 1:38 and 3:00. These two cue spots are a perfect time to have your class add...
Life Time Fitness attempts to set another Indoor Cycling Class World Record
Will you be in or around Dallas TX on March 17th? If so, I suggest you make plans to be part of this huge class Life Time Fitness is planning with the intent of breaking their own World Record Indoor Cycling class. From a Club Industry email: Life Time Fitness...
Tech Tuesday – These new bikes are more like riding outside
At the end of our first class on the new FreeMotion Indoor Cycles last Sunday, I spent close to 30 minutes answering questions from participants about the cycles and the Power meters: How many Watts should I be making? Why did I have to turn it up so high before I saw...
ICI Podcast 198 Teach Your First Class With Power! Audio PROfile from Cameron Chinatti with Stages Indoor Cycling
You only get one chance to make a first impression! While I've taught a lot of classes on Indoor Cycles that display Power/Watts, this morning was the very first Power based class I've ever taught. So what's the difference? 65 new FreeMotion Indoor Cycles with Power...
Free Music Friday – 1/27
This fabulous artist can not only sing, play guitar and drums, but she is also quite a little athlete. She runs 6 miles a day and is a marathoner. Today”™s 4:17, 86 bpm flat road has an ethereal 15 seconds before a hard beat kicks in. There are great nuances to work...
How about a LIVE Call-In Talk Show about Indoor Cycling?
I've been approached by a Talk Radio Syndication company to create a LIVE version of the Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast . Their representative asked if you would be interested in a weekly one hour live show, following the traditional Talk Radio format. The show would...
Instructor Tech Tuesday – Free Software for adding BPM in iTunes
John is it possible to add the BPM to all the songs in my iTunes library? The short answer for most of us is yes, with the exception of any tracks you purchased directly from iTunes back when much of their music carried DRM - Digital Rights Management. What follows...
Now this is exciting!
I just got confirmation that the Life Time Athletic club, where I have a Sunday 90 min endurance class, will have 65 new FreeMotion S11.9 indoor cycles for my next class! There had been a lot of rumors, but I couldn't get confirmation until today from our Group...
ICI Podcast 197 How do I become a Master Indoor Cycling Instructor?
Could you be a Master Instructor? With the announcement that ICI/PRO Team Member Doug Rusho had joined Stages Indoor Cycling, I thought it would be interesting to learn the selection process that Cameron Chinatti used to pick Doug as their newest educator. In this...