One of the most debilitating cognitions you can have is to believe that perfection must be attained. This irrational thought puts an endless amount of pressure on yourself, causing both your performances and enjoyment for indoor cycling (or any other activity) to deteriorate. . . . Read more…
Cause and Effect is an educational profile designed to help students discover the important relationship between cadence and resistance and the impact it has on their heart rate, perceived exertion, muscular strain, and breathing. This class may prove to be a breakthrough of understanding for some of your students, especially those who tend to ride with too little or even too much resistance. It will help them learn to connect better with their own pedaling, and realize how important good pedaling technique is on their output.Read more…
Tis article was written in 2011, but the idea that Spinning isn’t cycling is still pervasive in some places. On an online Spinning® group on Facebook, an instructor from Europe asked what the group thought about doing “push-ups” in class. A couple of us remarked that push-ups have no placeRead more…
In the last post on Power, we did the math on how Power is a product of cadence and force (resistance). Now let’s take a look at Sports Science and how understanding the concept of Power will help you in understanding sound training techniques and in creating effective and scientifically sound profiles.Read more…
In the previous post on the introduction of Power, we did the math on how Power is a product of cadence and force (resistance). Today let’s take a look at Sports Science and how understanding the concept of power will help you in understanding sound training techniques and in creatingRead more…
Kristin asks a great question about zone 3. “I have been reading a lot about zone three being ‘no mans land’, that zone 3 requires more recovery than zone 2 but the body does not improve much in this zone. Too high for recovery and too low for threshold/lactic tolerance workouts. Can you cover this? . . . Read more…
Power can be a bit complicated, so I think a lot of Spinning® and Indoor Cycling instructors ignore it. But by understanding power, you will see how my series on excessive cadence makes scientific sense, and is not just my “opinion” of how to teach a Spinning® or Indoor CyclingRead more…
You want something bad enough? Stop thinking about it and do it. Read more…
If you have never experienced an unpleasant interaction with a student in your indoor cycling class you’re either very lucky, you live in a utopian society or you just started teaching. At some point in your role as an instructor you’re going to have a run-in with someone. Though itRead more…
We call our Indoor Cycling program The Road MapRead more…