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Magic Coaching Minute: The Warm-Up
In this Magic Coaching Minute, Jennifer and I are enjoying the USA Cycling Pro Challenge. While in the team village before Friday’s time trial, we were inspired to talk about the importance of warming up.Read more…
My Back-to-School Profile and Playlist This Morning
My Back-to-School profile and playlist was a big hit this morning so I thought I’d share it with you. If you’re not into theme profiles, this one may change your mind! This playlist spans the genres, and includes folk, indie, R&B, pop, punk, retro, and classic rock. It also spans the school age, from elementary to high school to college. As the Ramones say, “Fun, fun, rock ‘n roll high school”!Read more…
ContraINDIGNATIONS™—Fast Jumps?!
Welcome to the first in a series of (unfortunately) many videos demonstrating moves and drills inappropriately used in Spinning® and indoor cycling classes. Let’s work together to stop the madness.Read more…
Visual Cues to Enhance Your Coaching, Part 3
In Part 1 of this series we provided visual cues for technique and pedal stroke. The visual cues provided in Part 2 focused on intensity, terrain, and duration. For the final edition of this series, we have several hand signals for miscellaneous uses, such as riding formation, focus, breathing, and stretching.Read more…
85 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 85 songs you can use in your end-of-summer themed playlists.Read more…
Thought-Provoking Concept: What Would Your Students Say About You if You Were to…Go Away?
The two recent tragic losses in the indoor cycling community has given many of us pause to reflect on our own lives. One of the comments on the post about Jim Karanas’ passing by one of his students so beautifully expressed the impact he had on her life. It makes one wonder, “what would my students say about me and the effect I had on them if I were to die?” Are you willing to ask that question, and take the steps necessary to make sure you knew the answer?Read more…
Keep It Real…Fresh
Like many of us, I had gone through a number of life transitions, which can distract us from basic principles we all know well and usually practice, like RECOVERY. I’ve spoke about this to instructors at conferences and have given lengthy diatribes on the importance of adequate rest to those I’ve coached. Yet, here I am (again) finding myself fatigued.Read more…
Leg Switch Drill
My post last week about Buddy Macuha’s class at IDEA was especially interesting to ICA contributor Christine Nielsen, because she often coaches her students to change the leading leg. I asked her to write up an explanation of how she uses this as a drill.Read more…
Free Music!
Special thanks to ICA member Davide Camerini for sending me this free music download. It’s an album called Ethnoscapes and has eight downtempo tracks.Read more…
Visual Cues to Enhance Your Coaching, Part 2: Intensity, Terrain, and Duration
Visual learners are probably the most common amongst our students, yet so many instructors miss out on adding the signals that help them to grasp directives. This series focuses on how to meet the needs of your visual learners so that they will profit from your coaching. Part 2 of this series covers intensity, terrain, and duration with ten different images.Read more…