Welcome to the Indoor Cycling Association
Exuding Passion as a Spinning® Instructor!
Davide Camerini, a longtime ICA member and Spinning® instructor from Italy who I originally met at WSSC, has a blog titled La Passione Per L’Indoor Cycling. Check out his level of passion in his blog!Read more…
Fire Up Your Field Tests With the Right Music
Tom Scotto and I get asked a lot for high-energy music suggestions for field tests and time trials from 85 to 100 bpm. We’ve put our heads together to come up with 72 songs, ranging from downtempo and electronic, to rock, alternative, and hip-hop. What they all have in common is consistent rhythm and high energy. Some require more intrinsic coaching (downtempo), some work just fine on their own!Read more…
FREE Music from Beatport!
What can be better than free music? Free music that’s great for indoor cycling classes, that’s what! Beatport is giving away free music over the next ten weeks to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Don’t miss it!Read more…
Your Students NEED You! Here’s Why…
They need you to inspire them in ways you’ve never done before! Intrinsic coaching, visualization, powerful motivations, and more. They need new, fun, and challenging profiles that don’t take you hours to put together. Epic climbs, effective intervals, challenging racing scenarios, fun games, and theme rides, etc. ICA can help!Read more…
Always Have a Plan B For Your Classes!
In my e-book “Ten Ways to Stay Motivated as an Indoor Cycling Instructor,” one of the things I discuss is to always be prepared. In doing so, you reduce your potential stress level because you are confident that should something happen, you have a way to address the problem and not skip a beat in your instruction of your class. In this post, I give you a Plan B so you can avoid the challenge I dealt with!Read more…
Audio Master Class: The Chase Across Europe and the Middle East
Introducing our next Audio Master Class, this time with guest instructor Bill Pierce. I’ve known Bill for over a decade and have seen that his profiles are based on sound training principles, yet they always have a thread of fun, humor, and/or adventure. This one is no different, as he takes you on an epic trip through Europe and the Middle East, with music to match each country.Read more…
Ask The Expert: When Does an Interval Really Start?
The question of when a interval effort really starts has been posed a number of times. Short intervals of less than a minute leave little room for question. However, the confusion often surrounds the longer 3- to 10-minute threshold intervals.Read more…
143 Tracks For Your Back-to-School and Labor Day Playlists
Yes, it’s that time of the year: Labor Day and Back to School! Here are a total of 143 songs you can use in your end-of-summer themed playlists. I’ve also included the Spotify links for both a Labor Day and a Back-to-School playlist.Read more…
Sub Standards, Part 1: Respect My Subs, or Else
It is not uncommon for riders to play favorites when it comes to which indoor cycling classes they will take. As instructors, we see our regulars every week. They often go out of their way to tell us how good of a job we are doing and how much they loved the whooping we just planted on them. The indoor cycling world spins happily on it’s axis week to week, and all is well until…we need to find someone to substitute our class. Chaos. Struggle. Picketing. Riots. Panic.Read more…
Ever Ride to Live Music and Dance?
A month ago I told you about the series of Journey Rides that Charleston Ride studio in South Carolina was hosting this summer. I’ve been following their Facebook page as they post the promotions and follow-ups to these special events. Last week was the ride Into Africa, taught by DanRead more…