Mainstream Music Monday: You’re On Your Way to Success
2021-12-13
Almost everything this artist does is a feel-good, joyful celebration of life and love. Read more…
Friday Favorites: It Won’t Be Long Until You Use This Song!
2021-12-10
This song is 10 years old but it’s only a matter of time before you use it for a hard, driving flat road effort. You can use it in an interval profile with ascending or descending cadence—this is your mid-80s song. Or pop it into an assessment such as an FTP test.Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: A Perfect Challenging Climb
2021-12-06
This week’s track is another great climb. With a mesmerizing backbeat, it is the perfect song to practice some pedal-stroke drills. Read more…
Friday Favorites: There Are No Shortcuts!
2021-12-03
This motivational track has two short (20-to-30-second), high-powered efforts to use for anaerobic intervals built into it—how perfect is that? The lyrics will make sure you squeeze out every drop!Read more…
Wednesday Timeless Classics: Slow, Mindful Climb
2021-12-01
A classic from 1994, almost all the tracks from this album have appeared in my playlists over the years. This one is a long, slow, steep climb, one in which you can ride in silence as your students immerse themselves with closed eyes and focus on their breath and their pedal stroke.Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: HOT DANG!
2021-11-29
Pumping synths, killer baselines, and textured vocals will hit you hard.Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: Soulful, Energetic Song with a Profound Message
2021-11-22
A genre-bending song from a Nashville-based British singer-songwriter that blends classic pop, rock, soul, blues, and country. Read more…
Friday Favorites: An Evocative Psychedelic Warm-Up
2021-11-19
What makes a song a “favorite”? For me, it’s a song that is efficient in its evocative power, where a small special hook, melody, or synth line taps into deep wells of memory and feeling. Who beats the Irish at that? Read more…
Wednesday Timeless Classic: Bringing You to Back to the 80s
2021-11-17
Ready for a powerful, emotional, and passion-filled song that can’t help but ask you to go deep and find strength, power, and determination you didn’t even know you had? Well, here it is.Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: Keep the Tempo with This Dancehall Gem
2021-11-15
Dancehall music is a genre of urban folk music that came out of Jamaica in the mid to late 1970s. This dancehall rhythm will grab your legs and have you matching the tempo.Read more…