Transform Your Teaching Experience with ICA’s 13th Anniversary Special!
Picture this: It’s late at night, and you’re finally unwinding after a long day. You've spent your day balancing your full-time job, managing your household, and maybe even catching up with your older children. But now, instead of relaxing, you're sitting at your desk, stressing over creating a profile for your early morning cycling class. You love teaching—it's your passion—but the late-night preparation is draining.
If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many cycling instructors face the same challenge. At ICA, we understand the pressures you face (because we’ve been there, too!), and we’re here to help.
If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many cycling instructors face the same challenge. At ICA, we understand the pressures you face (because we’ve been there, too!), and we’re here to help.
Why join ICA?
For 13 years, the Indoor Cycling Association has been dedicated to educating and inspiring cycling instructors worldwide. Our global members come from diverse backgrounds and hold certifications from leading programs like Spinning®, Stages, Keiser, Schwinn, ICG, YMCA, and many more. We specialize in helping you excel after your initial certification, providing the practical, real-world information that fills the gaps left by theoretical training, empowering you to create and teach exceptional classes.
Yes, for the past 13 years, we've empowered thousands of instructors to achieve their full potential and excel in their passion
Yes, for the past 13 years, we've empowered thousands of instructors to achieve their full potential and excel in their passion
- Save Time and Stress Less: No more last-minute scrambling to create profiles. With hundreds of ready-made profiles at your fingertips, you’ll have more time for yourself and your loved ones. Our profiles are not only ready-made but are also vetted and backed by science, ensuring they are safe, effective, and engaging.
- Become a Hero Coach: Stand out with profiles that are fun and engaging. Our profiles come with fabulous playlist suggestions, ensuring your classes are exciting and your riders are hooked. You’ll gain the skills and confidence to create your own profiles too, becoming the hero coach your riders look up to.
- Understand Essential Exercise Science: No more wondering if your profiles make sense. We teach you the crucial exercise science principles needed to create effective and impactful rides. From understanding how the body responds to training to ensuring proper technique, we’ve got you covered.
- Enhance Your Communication Skills: Learn how to deliver powerful cues and communicate effectively, so your riders hang on to every word. Good communication is key to engaging and motivating your riders—we help you master this art.
- Fill Your Classes: Our tips and strategies will help you attract and retain more riders. From themed rides to special event rides, we provide everything you need to keep your classes full and your riders coming back for more.
- Theme Rides Made Easy: Enjoy the fun and excitement of theme rides without the hassle. We provide ready-made theme profiles, and if you prefer to create your own, we inspire you with our extensive bucket playlists. Our playlists often feature hundreds of unique and varied song suggestions you won’t find anywhere else, saving you countless hours of searching for the perfect tracks.
Knowledge
Knowledge is power and no other online educational resource comes anywhere remotely close to the kind of impact on the training and education of indoor cycling instructors that ICA provides.
Impact
Our members constantly tell us that as a result of what they learn through ICA, their confidence increases, their classes are fuller, and their riders are happier. We help you change more lives.
Empowerment
Through our varied song suggestions and powerful cues, you will feel like you are on top of the world when you teach.
Results
Our members constantly tell us that as a result of what they learn through ICA, their confidence increases, their classes are fuller, and their riders are happier. We help you change more lives.
Substance
In addition to our regular contributors, we constantly seek out the best of the best to be guest contributors, from all areas of fitness and from as many indoor cycling programs as possible. We know you will not be disappointed with the quality of the content here on ICA.
Style
Whether you are a recently certified new instructor or you have a few years under your belt, developing your style as a cycling coach is an important component of being your best. ICA can help you discover and develop your most authentic coaching style and to become the inspirational mentor you aspire to be.
Listen to what others are saying about ICA...
Your ICA membership includes training on the following topics:
Class profiles: Created by top trainers in the industry, based on sound training principles. These profiles provide excitement and variety for your students and always come with a playlist that matches the energy of the profile.
Ask the expert: Ask us any question you might want to know about being a better instructor!
Form and technique: Pedal stroke, efficiency, proper set-up, and contraindications.
Drills: At ICA, we are OCD (Obsessed with Cycling Drills)! You’ll find articles and videos on dozens of different drills to incorporate into your profiles and how to coach them.
Coaching and cueing: Tons of creative ways to expand your cueing prowess. We have hundreds of cues on teaching endurance, climbing hills, longer threshold efforts, high-intensity efforts, surpassing one’s limits, mental strength, and so much more.
Weekly music suggestions: Tracks to satisfy all tastes, including what to do to each song.
Biomechanics, cadence, and power: The science behind turning those pedals.
Physiology, heart rate training, and RPE: Understand how the body works and how to teach your riders how to tune into their body.
Power: How to understand power output, how to introduce your classes to training with power, and how to coach FTP tests (functional threshold power). This includes a 90-minute video on how to conduct a 20-minute FTP test as well as how to do a ramp test.
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You also get these great resources:
Tips on mental training and mind-body connection: how to inspire your students to tap into the power of their minds.
Music resources and tech tips to help you be more savvy with your music.
Virtual rides: access our archive of virtual rides and master classes. Currently, there are 21 video rides! You can just watch and take notes (like you would at a conference) or grab a bike and ride along.
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Additional benefits of ICA membership:
- Discounts on ICA products, courses, and live workshops.
- Discounts on Jennifer's live virtual rides and winter training program.
- 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Access to our exclusive members-only Facebook group of like-minded instructors.
Additional benefits of ICA membership:
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Discounts on ICA products, courses, and live workshops.
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Discounts on Jennifer's live virtual rides and winter training program.
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30-day money-back guarantee.
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Access to our exclusive members-only Facebook group of like-minded instructors.
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You also get these four incredible bonuses
valued at over $250!
valued at over $250!
Bonus #1, Ebook: How to Create Empowering and Fun Profiles for your Indoor Cycling Classes
Learning to create your own profiles is a great skill to have as an indoor cycling instructor. It can be daunting to new instructors however, as few certification programs spend much time giving sufficient instruction on how to create them, or their instructions only leads to more confusion.
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Bonus #2, Online workshop: "How to Make a Fabulous First Impression" by Haley Perlus, Ph.D.
Whether you are auditioning to get hired, teaching for the first time, picking up a new class, or substituting, this session is essential. Yes, you’ve studied your profiles and planned great music; you’re super excited to lead students through a tough yet fulfilling workout. But that excitement is often accompanied by nervous energy, fear, and even perhaps doubt. Will you remember your cueing? Will the participants like you? Will they ask you something you don’t know the answer to?
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Bonus #3, Online workshop: "The Care and Feeding of New Students" by Bill Roach
Nothing defines you more as an instructor than how you meet, reassure, inform and inspire new students. As an instructor, these are your most precious skills, and it is with new students that your skills are most needed, most valued and most lasting. This session shows you how to use those key moments when you first meet a new student. Learn how to listen to them to overcome their fears. Make yourself the instructor they will always remember. You have one chance to hook them for good, make sure you take it.
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Bonus #4, Online workshop: "Exercise Physiology for Indoor Cycling Instructors” (Parts 1 & 2) by Jennifer Klau, Ph.D.
New to exercise physiology? Used to know it but can’t quite remember? This is where it all begins. This session will focus on key concepts for cycling instructors; it will be taught in everyday language with examples of how the information applies to your classes and your students. The information you take from this workshop will guide your class planning and help you give credible answers to questions from your students.
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What to Teach Next
We have 100s of profiles on the ICA website, but this extra special bonus schedule lays out our top profiles with two suggested profiles per week for 6 months. Click here to see what the schedule looks like.
One year ICA membership + 1 bonus months (13 months)
+ $13 off
You get it all for only $106.
+ $13 off
You get it all for only $106.