Will You be at Club Industry this week?
I'll be at the Club Industry fitness show in Chicago Thursday and Friday meeting with our new sponsor/contributor LiveStrong Indoor Cycling by Matrix and record a formal introduction to all of you to learn more about them. While I'm there, I will be participating in...
ICI/PRO Podcast #179 – The Concept Behind Saturday with Stages BIG RIDE
Listen as Cameron Chinatti explains: The hidden agenda… Transitioning participants towards a Power-â€focused class can be difficult to implement without their buy-â€in and understanding. Use this ride as an example of how to incorporate Power specific concepts...
2012 ICI/PRO Conference Location Survey
How about a conference in Denver next year? Or maybe Atlanta? Dallas can get hot but has an amazing amount of energy, or maybe Salt Lake City? We're just not sure... Two things we do know is that Boston has served us well for the past two years and the North East...
Free Music Friday for 10/7
I love a good long tune and today’s Free Music Friday Favorite is 7minutes long. It has a “dream pop” type vibe to it, but don’t let that throw you off, because I have found it to be very useful in discovering either T1, or T2. The Verve is certainly not a new (or...
ICI Podcast 178 It Was Like Presenting at Indoor Cycling Graduate School
Between sessions last weekend Master Instructor Cameron Chinatti took me aside and told me how impressed she was with the quality of Instructors at the conference. Wanting for you to hear it first hand, I invited Cameron back for a post conference interview for the...
These specially designed gear bags were a big hit
Amy suggested that we have something special for all of the returning Instructors this year and I completely agreed... but what? I though it would be nice if we could provide something that would communicate the professionalism of the Indoor Cycling Instructors who...
Friday Night BIG Ride Setup in 60 Seconds
Mark Dalrymple was part of the contingent from Cycling Fusion who helped our event be the success that it was. Over the weekend I had the pleasure of getting to know Mark and learn that he was the actual brains behind the creation of the Class Builder App + a world...
The ICI/PRO Peloton
This ride was soooooo awesome! Master Instructor Tom Scotto lead his ICI/PRO Peloton through a series of "Towns" with the support of his fantastic band. I was a bit skeptical about how the band would interact with Tom and the class...they couldn't have worked together...
October will be a HUGE month for all of us
We chose this weekend for the ICI/PRO Conference so Instructors will be ready for the start of our new season - and here we are! Beyond having our classes begin to fill (as if that's not enough) there's a bunch of other stuff I'm really excited about coming this...
Free Music Friday for 9/30
What???? Did you think I forgot you? Never! Greetings from the ICI/PRO Conference in Boston! I truly wish you were all here. Today’s Friday Favorite is by an artist that my daughter Carly introduced me to. I have used her quite often in my class line ups. You may...