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Audio Master Class: The Legends of the Giro
The Giro d’Italia is going on right now, and what better person to bring you a very challenging, very exciting Giro stage than someone who grew up in Italy and remembers seeing the Giro pass by his door at age 4? Robert Baldi, ICA contributor and avid cyclist and cycling fan, brings you the Queen Stage…Read more…
How to Make the Best Of a Small Class
Make your small class a success by using some simple techniques.Read more…
Quote of the Week
As an indoor cycling coach, you’ve been given an amazing opportunity to help be the agent of change. Take this role seriously!Read more…
Top Ten Tricks For Nailing Your Next Audition: Part 4
This is the final installment on the series by Bryon Black on Top Ten Tricks for Nailing Your Next Audition. This tip deserved its own article because of its impact. Get this one right and not only will you probably knock the socks off those in your audition, but it will establish your foundation as you progress as an indoor cycling coach. Incorporating this suggestion may change you; it will permeate how you create your profiles, how you coach your students, how you help them progress in their fitness, and how you grow as a person.Read more…
Instructors: How Varied Are Your Class Offerings?
As an indoor cycling instructor, I believe your job is to lead your students to greater fitness, provide motivation and inspiration, educate them, and have fun in the process. In fulfilling these obligations, you want to have a mix of the elements listed in this article in your quiver of classes. These aren’t energy zones or specific types of profiles, rather they could be what is stated as an objective (or sub-objective) for your profile.Read more…
Top Ten Tricks for Nailing Your Next Audition: Part 3 (or How to Be a Really Good Instructor)
Part 3 of How to be a Really Good Instructor, I mean, How to Nail Your Next Audition, goes into tips 7, 8, and 9. By the time you read these, you’ll have your students, and your bosses (both current and future) eating out of your hands and applauding.Read more…
Hand Positions on a Bike (Video)
If you are an ICA member, or have known me for a long time in the Spinning® and indoor cycling community, you would probably know that I’m not a big proponent of standing out of the saddle with the hands on the tops of the handlebars…Read more…
Audio Master Class: Red Pill Blue Pill Intervals
This interactive and fun profile has a Matrix theme, in which the second half of the profile you allow your students to select the intervals via their choice of a Red Pill or a Blue Pill. This is one of those profiles you can do again and again, using a few different songs each time, and every single time it will come out different. I’m quite sure this will become one of your go-to profiles!Read more…
Top Ten Tricks For Nailing Your Next Audition: Part 2 (or How to Be a Really Good Instructor)
Here is Part 2 of Top Ten Tricks for Nailing Your Next Audition, or, as I like to subtitle it, How to Be a Really Good Instructor! Tips 4, 5 and 6 will help you look good, select an appropriate profile, and show them that you are indeed a professional indoor cycling instructor. (As we all are, even if you teach for free!)Read more…
Coaching My Class This Morning Off the Bike
After three weeks being out of commission, I’m slowly getting back to teaching my Tues/Thur 6am class, the end of a 12-week periodized program. Since the information and coaching is very specific and is based on what was done in the previous weeks, I had no one who I could trust to sub for me. (Yup, really!) But I do have very understanding and wonderful students who cared more about my recovery than their class! So today was my second day back, teaching off the bike. My husband remarked these past two classes were the best he’s ever seen me teach, because I was focusing so much on my students. Here’s what I said and did, plus my latest field-test playlist, which I loved!Read more…