Friday Favorites: Electronica D&B Reverie—the Chill Side of Electronic Music
2024-08-30
This delightful track from a Colorado band will feel happy in your profile either as a warm-up or an endurance or tempo fast flat at 87 rpm.Read more…
Wednesday Timeless Classics: Blending Whimsical Worldbeat with Emotive Intensity
2024-08-21
This group’s music is an immersive experience, often described as powerful, iconic, and unique. What I love most about writing Wednesday Timeless Classics posts is the chance to rediscover forgotten songs that once fueled the energy at my Spinning® conference sessions and workshops. This is one of those songs from 2005.Read more…
Class Profile: Progressive Aerobic Intervals
2024-08-18
Are you craving a ride that’s all about ramping up your aerobic endurance? Look no further! Dive into the Progressive Aerobic Intervals profile by Bill Pierce.Read more…
The Olympic Spirit Ride: Ride for the Olympic Rings
2024-08-05
The Olympic Spirit represents the pinnacle of athletic achievement, embodying the dedication, resilience, and unyielding commitment of athletes all over the world. In this exciting profile, we honor these qualities by challenging ourselves through five distinct efforts, each highlighting the skills and athletic attributes required for different Olympic events. Award your riders with a colored Olympic ring for completing each of these five varied challenges. Lead this empowering profile and inspire your riders to embark on the path to athletic excellence!Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: TikTok Sensation Releases Delightful New Track
2024-08-05
He got his start on TikTok during the pandemic with a viral hit, then he got calls from Charlie Puth and Jimmy Fallon. By 2022, he was touring the nation. This delightful short song released in 2024 is perfect as a recovery. No doubt we’ll hear a lot more from this talented young man in the years to come!Read more…
Wednesday Timeless Classics: Progressive House—A Fusion of House with Dub and Reggae
2024-07-24
This is the seventh track from this group in the ICA music archives. I hope you’ve got all seven in your repertoire—they’re all that good, and they’ve been a part of Spinning® and cycling studios since the early 1990s! This one is perfect for a warm-up or a long, sub-threshold interval at 86 rpm. Read more…
Profile: Les Chemins Blancs de Champagne—Tour de France 2024, Stage 9, Troyes to Troyes
2024-07-16
This is a challenging, unique, and fun stage of the Tour de France, featuring gravel roads, or “chemins blancs,” included for the first time in the race’s history. Read more…
Friday Favorites: Two Perfect HIT Intervals
2024-07-12
Drum and bass tracks often feature ebbs and flows of energy, but sometimes the peaks aren’t spaced well for HIIT, lacking sufficient time for easy riding between hard efforts. Not with this amazing and motivating track—you get two ~40-second very hard intervals with a 40-second recovery. Read more…
Gear Up for the Paris Olympics with ICA’s Exciting Bucket Playlists and Profiles!
2024-07-11
The Paris Olympics promise to be a breathtaking spectacle. To help you create your unforgettable Olympics ride, we have six incredible bucket playlists and three fabulous profiles from our archives that you can customize for the Paris Olympics.Read more…
Wednesday Timeless Classics: Synthesizer Magic
2024-07-10
You’re going to need some oxygen for this song from 1978. The tempo lends itself to the perfect warm-up rhythm, a moderate flat road, a hard fast climb, or the song right before your cool-down when you want to gradually decrease the intensity in stages.Read more…