Welcome to the Indoor Cycling Association
Considering a newsletter? What will you say?
We’ve discussed how to communicate to your students via a newsletter and how to manage distribution of the newsletter. Now, in Part 3 on communicating via a newsletter, Bill Roach gives tips on actually writing the content. You’ll tell participants about your schedule, class plans, and substitutes, but where doRead more…
Audio Master Class: The British Invasion!
Get ready to rock your bikes and roll your legs! The music of this British Invasion theme ride will appeal to a very wide range of students and have them nodding their heads and tapping their fingers on their handlebars. It will also challenge them as you alternate flats withRead more…
The Quote of the Week is Back!
Today’s quote teaches you to remind your students of their achievements each time they are on the bike.Read more…
Field Testing and Maximum Heart Rate Charts
This is such a great question–I bet it’s crossed your mind if you’ve done threshold field tests before! How do you correlate the results of a field test with maximum heart rate zones such as the Spinning® Energy Zones or the ones you see posted on many clubs’ walls? How do you answer your students’ questions about their maximum heart rates when you give them their field test results? In this comprehensive discussion, I give you numerous ways to field your students’ questions. . . .Read more…
Approaches to Teaching – Part 2: Fitness Versus Athletic Training
Part 2. Tom Scotto and I continue our discussion on the two approaches to teaching: the fitness model versus the athletic model. We give you some tools to guide you along the path to becoming a better coach as you think of your classes as part of a bigger-picture trainingRead more…
Approaches to Teaching: Fitness Versus Athletic Training
Part 1. Join Tom Scotto and me as we discuss two approaches to teaching: the fitness model versus the athletic model. There is nothing wrong with fitness training, but if you start training your students more like athletes, even if they never ride outside, they are more likely to experienceRead more…
My First Indoor Ride
Sarah Russell is the co-owner of Breathe, a yoga and cycling studio in Denver, Colorado. I’ve known Sarah for a few years and have watch her studio grow and flourish. Sarah wrote this article for her studio newsletter and gave me permission to reprint it for you. I bet someRead more…
In-Class Communication: Students Notice What You Do
Here is a little test to determine how effective your communication skills are with your students. Bill gives you a checklist for before, during, and after class, because students notice everything you do. Everything. Improve a few of these skills and you’ll probably find your students will like you betterRead more…
Seven tips for success when standing out of the saddle at higher cadences
As a follow-up to my post last week about high cadences, here are seven tips to increase success for pedaling quickly while standing. This article reiterates that each individual will have their own “threshold” of cadence while standing and reviews when and why this movement is appropriate or not. LastRead more…
Tripped up by technology and Mother Nature!
To an indoor cycling instructor, iTunes is your lifeblood. When it crashes, all heck breaks loose. That happened to me on Friday, and then on Monday, lightning struck. Literally! Let me tell you about my crazy week–I’ve been a little preoccupied! Friday my iTunes froze up. I wasn’t even ableRead more…