Be The Instructor (Inspirer) Your Students Can’t Wait To See Again…A Lesson On Being Passionate
Are you still as deeply passionate and in love with instructing as you used to be? If the answer is yes, good for you! If it is not, then good for you! You are about to be reminded of some things that perhaps you have forgotten. It was the spring of 1985 and I will...
The Weekly Ride – Week 11
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to...
Great video for a 20 minute threshold test
I used Epic Planet's video Epic Acadia this morning in a class I subbed. Because these early AM people are very committed and they all understand the value of Threshold based training, I knew I could lead them on a ride that included a 20 minute climb at (or very...
Heart Rate Training Survey – The Language Barrier
Recently, I found myself at the local big box home improvement store looking for some primer paint. A helpful person asked if I had any questions. I explained that I had some pealing paint that I intended to scrape, prime and repaint. He suggested "brand X" as the...
The Weekly Ride – Week 10
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to...
Can Workouts Hide a Sugar Addiction?
“I don’t understand. She trains well.” The program manager made that comment when a participant in our weight loss program didn’t get results. I was both an athletic coach and the lead nutritionist. His comment exasperated me. Of course she trained well. She was...
The Weekly Ride – Week 9
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to...
The Product and Commodity of Indoor Cycling
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas The demand for our product is there. The market for our product consists largely of club operators. Yet the factors we believe make our product special are no longer clear to our customers. The product is Indoor Cycling and all...
Adding Cadence / RPM to a Star Trac Spinner® NXT or Spinner® Pro Indoor Cycle
We talk a lot about the new Indoor Cycles with consoles that display a rider's performance data; Power /watts, RPM, distance, calories. Training with Power is fabulous if your club or studio as invested bikes recently. It's even more fabulous when all of that data is...
Performance Cycle – FTP Assessment Class
Here's the profile I used a while ago in our Performance Cycle FTP assessment. [wlm_private 'PRO-Platinum|PRO-Monthly|PRO-Gratis|PRO-Seasonal|Platinum-trial|Monthly-trial|PRO-Military|30-Days-of-PRO|90 Day PRO|Stages-Instructor|Schwinn-Instructor|Instructor-Bonus|28...