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Communicating With Your Students and Increasing Your Class Size
There is no denying that promoting your upcoming classes can remind students to attend and greatly increase your class size. It’s also a great way to keep your students focused on their goals and help them achieve them. A weekly reminder in their inbox may be the impetus that kicks them in the butt to fit your class(es) into their busy schedules. Few have done it better than ICA member Kelly Scymczyk. Here are 11 samples of her entertaining and educational e-mails to her students.Read more…
Talking to the Media, Part 3: Preparation
A media interview can be a powerful tool for promoting yourself, your class, and your profession. It’s a lot more fun if you are well prepared. In part 3 of this series, we get a little more serious as you learn how to get ready for a media interview. Read more…
ICA Member Shares Hounds of Halloween SoundCloud Playlist
ICA member Ramiro Morejon is so excited to teach Christine’s Hounds of Halloween profile tomorrow. He’s been working hard on mixing the playlist and wanted to share it with you. He left this comment on the post: I just finished mixing the music for this ride. I am a fanRead more…
IDEA: Watch Tom’s YouTube Promotion for His Class (And Start Planning Your Own!)
What if you created a video of a new class you were teaching and posted it on YouTube, then shared it with everyone you knew through e-mail and any social media platforms you are on? And then you got the studio or club to post a link on their website,Read more…
Ticked Off to the Core!
I’m beyond irritated. After watching a couple of online instructor videos and listening to others talk about how cycling is an amazing full-body workout that targets the core, I almost don’t know where to begin. Unfortunately, it demonstrates the lack of science, training, and knowledge that should be required to call oneself an indoor cycling instructor. Those of us who are keeping the indoor cycling industry effective and real have done it via our own determination and quest for knowledge.Read more…
Theme Profile: The Feared Fang Mountains
Take your class to their scary limit on six climbs. True to its name, the Fang mountain range resembles…well…a set of fangs. This Halloween ride features many themes from horror movies, plus songs with appropriate titles. Have a contest in class to see who can name the most movies or songs.Read more…
Charleston Studio Finds That Key to Success is Empowered Instructors
Charleston RIDE, a licensed Spinning® facility in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, turns two years old this week! To celebrate the anniversary of this amazing facility, I spoke with co-owners Luciana Marcial-Vincion and Rebecca Young about what they feel are the keys to their success. I urge all instructors, studio owners and program directors to listen to this interview and watch the videos for ideas on how to raise the bar at your facility! Read more…
Over 300 Halloween Songs and Albums!
This year I’ve got over 300 great Halloween songs and albums. If you’re a new member this is an invaluable resource. If you have last year’s list, it’s been updated with over 50 additional songs and 8 albums for your Halloween pleasure. You can teach dozens of classes this weekRead more…
Theme Profile: Hounds of Halloween
Christine Nielsen, one of our more creative profile designers, has done it again, this time with a scary and dramatic theme profile for Halloween, replete with spooky sound effects. Your students’ hearts will be racing for more reasons than just the effort! The ending is rather ingenious; we’d love to hear if any of you added to the story line. Read more…
Magic Coaching Minute: Knees Tracking Outward
As instructors it is important that we monitor the form our those in our class. It is not uncommon to notice riders pedaling with their knees too far apart or tracking outward. This video addresses this needed correction and provides two cues instructors can use to guide participants back to better alignment.Read more…