We’ve discussed creative ways of connecting to students via Facebook and a website. Here is yet another way to stay connected and communicate on a more personal level with students—by establishing a newsletter. I met with Bill Roach, who shares with you his tips for a very successful newsletter that has increased his attendance in classes and even brought him personal training clients.Read more…
What if your student doesn’t get it? Even after telling him or her over and over about something having to do with riding or intensity or power or cadence, and they just don’t understand…. what do you do? What can you do? If you have not met this student yet,Read more…
In my article on “What is Soul Cycle Doing Right”, I discussed how they use promotion and PR to create a buzz, so that people want to be a part of what they are offering. I challenged you the instructor, and the studio owner, to think outside the box forRead more…
Dixie Douville, registered nurse and former longtime (and very popular) Master Instructor for the Spinning® program has worked with indoor cycling clients of every fitness level, including overweight and obese students. I asked Dixie to go into much more detail on how to understand and to work with our overweight students. . . .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…
Video Yourself: one of the best ways to improve as a Spinning® or Indoor Cycling Coach When I applied to become a Master Spinning® Instructor back in 1997, one of the requirements in the final stage of the application process was to send in a video of my class. IRead more…