Theme Ride Thursday: Burn, Baby, Burn—Profile and Playlist
2018-07-12
This week we deliver a fiery playlist and profile that will make your legs burn while torching calories. Are you ready for this?Read more…
Quick Profile: Intervals from Obstacles
2018-07-01
This Quick Profile “keeps it real”…real fun. Using the music as the road, it brings obstacles encountered outside into the cycle room to make your riders work harder to escape from them. Your class will have a blast with this uniquely memorable and creative profile.Read more…
Class Profile: The Ultimate HIIT—Teaching with Perceived Exertion
2018-06-23
The Ultimate HIIT Profile provides you with the ammunition you will need to guide riders to truly understand perceived exertion for higher intensity riding. Through your coaching you help them to relate each interval with duration and intensity and to make mental notes of what they are feeling. Ask your riders to take what they learn in this profile and apply it to other classes they attend.Read more…
Class Profile: The Ultimate HIIT—Teaching With Power
2018-06-17
Are you confused about teaching with power? Have you wondered what power output your riders should achieve in their intervals? Then this profile is for you. I call it the Ultimate HIIT because in addition to estimating FTP, it includes some of the more important durations for intervals so they can be compared to each other. This is very important when teaching both power as well as perceived exertion. I have a feeling you and your riders will love/hate this profile!Read more…
Muscular Strength Profile: Stampede!
2018-04-14
If you love proving that indoor cycling is not just for cardio bunnies, this is the profile for you. The overall goal is to place as much force on the leg muscles as possible for the duration of each muscular strength interval. Consider this profile the equivalent of performing single-leg squats or lunges—800 of them!
The intervals are short, but they are intense. If done correctly, each interval will bring a rider close to failure in the last seconds.Read more…
Quick Profile: Strength Endurance Hill Repeats
2018-03-24
Pedaling at lower cadences with higher resistance develops leg strength the same way lifting a heavier weight in the gym increases muscular strength. Today’s profile consists of hill repeats that focus on developing leg strength through strength endurance training. l often use recovery songs that are from one artist and album—I think you’ll enjoy the ones used in this profile.Read more…
Quick Profile: Two Pyramids Plus Two Inverse Pyramids
2018-03-08
Bill Pierce does it again with another creative, fun, and challenging profile. This ride consists of climbing two pyramids and two inverse pyramids, each one slightly different. The goal is to develop the attributes used in climbing, and muscular endurance at sub-threshold and threshold levels of power.Read more…
Quick Profile: Lather, Rinse, Repeat, Take 2 (4-Minute Intervals)
2018-02-28
Did you like our “Lather, Rinse, Repeat” Quick Profile? In this version, we increase to 4-minute intervals in Zone 5, the VO2 max zone.Read more…
Quick Profile: Lather, Rinse, Repeat (3-Minute Intervals)
2018-02-16
At first glance, this profile may seem “basic,” but it’s anything but “easy.” When intervals are distilled down to their basic format of hard followed by easy, they are simple to create, (fairly) simple to put music to, and simple to coach. Bonus: They may end up being some of the physically hardest classes you teach!Read more…
How to Educate Your Riders, Part 4: Using Storytelling and Non-Cycling Examples
2018-02-11
Continuing our series on Educating Your Students, Christine gives some suggestions about how to use non-cycling examples to help students understand cycling technique and what they should be feeling while pedaling. She does this primarily through storytelling in her profiles, although that’s not a prerequisite of the method. Christine is an expert at this technique and has been extremely successful educating her students.Read more…