ICI Podcast 121 Basking in the afterglow of our first conference
Amy (the senior Group Fitness Instructor) joins Jennifer and me to discuss what happened at our very first conference. The big news on Friday night was the announcement of our new Instructor Discount Program featuring Pear Izumi shoes and clothing. Listen to the...
This was a preventable – near disaster at the conference
We had a near disaster at this years conference that could have been easily prevented. Without using any names, one of our scheduled presenters contacted us three days before the conference to tell us her computer's hard-drive failed and she lost her presentation...
ICI/PRO Conference Video Interviews
Amy (the senior group fitness instructor in the Macgowan household) and Barbara Hoots interview a handful of ICI/PRO attendees at the conference in Boston, October 2010. See what you missed?!
THANK YOU! to everyone involved, from all of us at ICI/PRO
That had to be the most humbling, exhausting and yet energizing experience of my life 🙂 I have sent out the link to download the session outlines to all the attendees. There are a few missing and I will have them up later today. We couldn't have pulled off our first...
Friday Favorite: The Power of Silence
How often do you introduce complete silence into your class? Exhibit 13 -( Blue Man Group 8:50) is a 9/11 tribute. The first 4 minutes are quite somber, fading out for over 30 seconds of silence. What follows sounds connected, but very different in the emotion it...
Body Cycle Studio Coming to Philadelphia Next Month
I love it when new SPINNING Indoor Cycling studios open up and I do my best to promote them. Body Cycle Studio is coming to Philadelphia Next Month in early November. I talked with ICI/PRO Member (and the owner of Body Cycle Studio) Russell Carter today. He told me...
Adding some color to your Indoor Cycling Studio
Jeff Wimmer from StudioCycles.com sent me these pictures of refurbished Star Trac Spinner NXTs I always enjoy talking to Jeff because he takes enormous pride in the quality in his Indoor Cycling maintenance business and the refurbished Spinner NXTs they build are a...
Me & My Big Mouth
As is customary, I’ve opened my big mouth and am faced with the proverbial “put up or shut up”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one to trash talk and overstate my abilities. However, I am one that is always challenging others to accomplish things they think are...
22 years ago today…
It was a beautiful September day for pictures, next to a lake in Saint Paul, MN. I had great hair and Amy (the senior group fitness instructor in our family) swears she was only 17 when we married in 1988. This conveniently keeps her age under 40 🙂
I loved teaching to this DVD
If you talked to any of my frequent participants and asked; "how would you characterize John's class?" the reply would probably be something like; "add load", "we're going up!" So you can understand why I loved teaching to (and my class loved riding to) this new...