Me & My Big Mouth
As is customary, I’ve opened my big mouth and am faced with the proverbial “put up or shut up”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one to trash talk and overstate my abilities. However, I am one that is...
View ArticleICI/Podcast 128 Introducing Threshold Field Testing to your class with Karen...
ICI/PRO Member Karen Bernardo is the owner of Carpe Diem Fitness and Wellness in Mississauga, Ontario Canada. Karen taught a Threshold Field Test with great success in her Indoor Cycling class. When...
View ArticleWhy we need a standard method to describe heart rate training zones part 2
Ask Amy about her biggest teaching challenge while on a working fitness vacation at a Caribbean resort and she will tell you it's accommodating all the different languages of the guests. Jamaica is...
View ArticleThis is exciting! Dr. Carl Foster to present at this years conference
Our commitment for this years ICI/PRO conference it to provide the absolute best fitness education available! As we finalize our roster of presenters I wanted you to meet someone new 🙂 Dr. Carl...
View ArticleIs a 20 Minute Threshold Field Test realistic for your class? Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of Is a 20 Minute Threshold Field Test realistic for your class? I was trying to make the point that although completely appropriate for Endurance Athletes, these 20 minute...
View ArticleFree Heart Rate Monitor Inside
In a typical fitness conference “sponsorship”, Company A pays Event Promoter B a bunch of money to to be part of the event. That sounds good, but if you have been following us for any length of time...
View ArticleICI Podcast #177 – Problem Solved – Two Threshold / Three Zone Heart Rate...
For the past two year's or so I have been lobbying for a universal “Standard” for the description of Heart Rate Training Zones. The purpose is to get all of us talking with a common language, so we...
View ArticleIntro to ZONING in a CAN short video
If you teach “Club Athletes”, what many of us see as the majority of the student in our classes, and want to educate your students / clients on Heart Rate training program, I highly recommend you look...
View ArticleICI/PRO Podcast #191 – Aerobic Cruz Intervals from Master Instructor Tom Scotto
Master Instructor Tom Scotto ends the year with another excellent Audio PROfile. ICI/PRO members can look forward to another 12 NEW PROfiles in 2012. “This is one of my favorite rides because it puts...
View ArticleICI/PRO Podcast #207 – Understanding FTP Functional Threshold Power with...
Functional Threshold Power, better known as FTP, is the basis for establishing individual training zones using power/watts. Now that I'm teaching power based classes I've developed some questions about...
View ArticleICI Podcast #232 – Some Simple FTP Math From Joe Friel
Cameron Chinatti excitedly emailed me about a discovery she made while reading The Power Meter Handbook: A User's Guide for Cyclists and Triathletes which is a new eBook from Endurance Coach Joe Friel....
View ArticleICI Podcast 253 Can Exercise be Effortless?
Endurance Coach and Author Grant Molyneux joins us to discuss his book Effortless Exercise and its importance in actually enjoying exercise, while building aerobic fitness & endurance, vs. dreading...
View ArticleThe Power of 3 – Three Song Harmonically Mixed Indoor Cycling Set –“Stairway...
The Power of 3 – “Stairway To Heaven” “Rhiannon” by Stevie Nicks “Come On Eileen” by Dexie's Midnight Runners “Stairway To Heaven” by Heart For years I had been patiently waiting for the facilities I...
View ArticleFTP Mix – Harmonically Mixed Set for Functional Threshold Power Test
FTP Mix “Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2 “Wake Me Up” by Avicii “Real Gone” by Sheryl Crow “Danny, Dakota and the Wishing Well” by A Silent Film “Can't Hold Us” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis...
View Article220 – Your Age = Crap
Paul Camerer, AKA Pink House, is walking proof that (220 – your age, shoe size, mailing address, phone number … or anything else) will not give you an accurate Maximum Heart Rate number to base your...
View ArticleICI Podcast 96 Perfect Breathing with Al Lee and Don Campbell
This Podcast is was last published on April 10, 2010, I have updated it with our new Podcast host information and I am representing it now. I hope you enjoy it, Joey Available now worldwide, Perfect...
View Article072 ICI/PRO Podcast #72 – Grand Canyon Audio Profile
I call this my Grand Canyon ride. I use the metaphor of standing at the edge, with great discomfort ahead of us and much relief behind us, to help my students understand the feeling of Threshold....
View ArticleHow antihypertensive medications may impact your student’s training.
“Help! One of my Indoor Cycling students told me that he is taking meds for his blood pressure, and he’s asking questions about what this means for his training. I have no idea! What should I know...
View ArticleTraining Turned Upside Down
Training for improved climbing is one thing. Training for the Dirty Dozen is another. Given the fact that probably less than 1% of the hills one normally climb are as steep as those of the Dirty...
View ArticleIs a 20 Minute Threshold Field Test realistic for your class? Part 1
I am continually fascinated at the results of the Heart Rate Training Survey over 600 of you completed. It's well documented that a 20 minute Threshold Field Test is effective in determining an...
View ArticleIs a 20 Minute Threshold Field Test realistic for your class? Part 2
Who's really in your class? Do you look up at a room full of smiling, fit, self-directed, endurance athletes? Or does your class more closely resemble the population where you live? In Part 1 I shared...
View ArticleICI/PRO Podcast #162 – Tom Scotto on 2T/3Z Heart Rate Training Pt 1
I asked Master Instructor Tom Scotto for his thoughts on Part 1 – Part 2 and Part3 of Is a 20 Minute Threshold Field Test realistic for your class? Specifically I wanted to discuss the third article...
View ArticleICI/PRO Podcast # 167 – 4X4 Threshold Assessment Audio PROfile with Laura Sachs
Heart Zones Master Instructor Laura Sachs contributes our latest Audio PROfile. Laura recently published an article about heart rate training in the June IDEA Fitness Journal. Here's an excerpt and you...
View ArticleWhat WAS I thinking!?!
While there are lots of local races throughout the season, there is only one “in my back yard”. So naturally, I like to do either the MTB race, or the Road race. I did both one year, and well…let’s...
View ArticleMe & My Big Mouth
As is customary, I’ve opened my big mouth and am faced with the proverbial “put up or shut up”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one to trash talk and overstate my abilities. However, I am one that...
View ArticleGreat video for a 20 minute threshold test
I used Epic Planet's video Epic Acadia this morning in a class I subbed. Because these early AM people are very committed and they all understand the value of Threshold based training, I knew I could...
View ArticleThis Stuff Really Works!
Sixteen weeks, countless hours on the bike, more Yoga & Pilates than I thought I’d ever see, and all the 40+ VO2 tests later, the results are finally in. The Winter Training program based on...
View ArticleHow to Start a Beginner Class at Your Club
Before we talk about how to get a beginner class started, the first question you need to answer is why? Not, why does my club need a beginner class, but why do YOU want to lead one (if this is your...
View ArticleICI/PRO Podcast #163 — Tom Scotto on 2T/3Z Heart Rate Training Pt 2
Here is the continuation of my interview with Master Instructor Tom Scotto where we discuss if the 2 Threshold / 3 Zone system could have application in a power based class. During our conversation we...
View ArticleICI/PRO Podcast #89 Riding Your Thresholds with Stage 5 Cycling’s Tom Scotto
Tom Scotto from Stage 5 Cycling joins me as the “pinch hitter” Master Instructor for this weeks Audio PROfile. I'm calling this a sort of Hybrid Audio PROfile/PRO Podcast as Tom goes into a lot of...
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