Communicating Expectations For Instructors
I love knowing what's expected of me and I bet you do as well. It makes life so much easier! When told; "I need you to do X,Y and Z"... I know to do X,Y and Z. But we've all been in the position of being told something was expected of us, but the "something" was never...
Falling in Love with the Golden Zone – Zoning Video Profile featuring Tia Kilpatrick
I love the simplicity of the Zoning Heart Rate program. Three zones (Easy-Blue/Moderate-Yellow/Hard-Red) that are created using two thresholds; T1 Aerobic Threshold & T2 Anaerobic Threshold - AKA: AT or LT. Simple to communicate and easy for anyone to understand -...
Happy 60th Birthday Vivienne Naylor!
I hope I don't get in trouble from Vivienne for divulging her age - but doesn't she look awesome on a bike! We should all aspire to look so good, at any age. If you've spent any time over at pedal-on, you've read something she's commented on in her very direct British...
ICI Podcast 267 Meet Xavier and Nadia McClinton from Body By X Skill Development & Training Center
Running a successful fitness studio takes a lot of passion, experience and hard work. The husband and wife team of Xavier and Nadia McClinton who run Body By X Skill Development & Training Center in Marin County California sound like they have all three covered......
FreeMotion S11.9 Carbon Drive Review
My Cliff's Notes review of FreeMotion's S11.9 with Carbon (belt) Drive: Every Indoor Cycle should use this Gates Carbon Drive Belt. It's really that good. Strengths It feels very similar to a chain 🙂 Extremely quiet Efficiency equal to a new chain Minimal required...
Recovery
Recovery is one of those interesting words that can be used to describe two completely opposite things. We're often discussing recovery as a well deserved period of rest, like some easy pedaling after after a hard effort or simply a fun day that follows a week of...
Indoor Cycling Power Research #6: Bringing In The Big Guns
Let’s Try This Another Way After testing 14 different bikes, with 6 of them also being repeat tested at least twice, I was pretty disappointed to see the data I reported in our last blog. This was never meant to be just an academic exercise. This had pure practical...
National Eagle Day
It's National Eagle Day here in the USA and I thought I should share an experience I had with the bald eagle one morning before class. I actually had this post sitting as a draft from a few weeks ago. As often happens, I got distracted and never finished it. Learning...
ICI Podcast 293 – Meet Dr. Kevin Steele, VP of Programs and Education for Mad Dogg Athletics
I first met Dr. Kevin Steele in the mid 2000's when he was with Life Time Fitness and it was a real treat to catch up with him again at the past MINDBODY FitPRO conference this past Fall. In his role as VP of Programs and Education at Mad Dogg Athletics, Kevin heads...
Blog Post #8.5 — Sidebar #1 Climbing Grades n’at*
* n'at a "general extender"[2][3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_English) For those of you not well versed in the language of “Pittsburghese”, we use the phrase “n’at” for a variety of reasons, but in this case it means “along with some other stuff”....