To quote the lyrics of a Glenn Frey song, “There’s a hole in the world tonight”…this week the world lost yet another musical icon way too soon. Here are a profile and a list of songs for your Glenn Frey tribute. Since the Eagles’ style is softer country rock, this profile includes higher-energy songs from their contemporaries of the 1970s and 1980s. Read more…

(Reposted from last year.) In this profile, you will dare your riders to recommit to their goals using very powerful songs, each one a perfect compliment to your message. You can bring out this powerful motivating ride anytime you want you riders to commit to doing more of what they want and need. Use this profile in its entirety, or just pick out a couple of songs and the associated cueing and throw them into other profiles that need a motivational boost.Read more…

Here are easy access links to four past profiles for the New Year, including the popular “How Big is Your Why,” which challenges your thinking with a *Revolution*; “Roll With The Changes,” which will help your students put the stake in the ground and avoid errors of the past. “The Word of the Year” encourages riders to choose a personal mantra, and “What’s Stopping You” reflects on the “How” they will achieve their goals, not just on the “What.”Read more…

Did you know the world will be ending September 28, 2015? When it doesn’t, you can use this profile anytime someone predicts the end of the world, or how about for Halloween! This profile is all about engaging the imagination and sense of humor of your class members, and using that energy to motivate them as you take them through a series of high-intensity efforts while they ride for their lives! Read more…

interval profile

Here is a fun summer-themed profile from our archives. It consists of eight intervals around threshold intensity or slightly above, alternating slower cadences with faster cadences. You may want to pull this one out again six or eight months from now when you put your winter coats back on and are dreaming of sun, sand, and surf! (For those of you in the southern hemisphere, that’s why you’ll want to use this profile now!)Read more…