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Class Profile: Longer Cruise Intervals
If you are teaching with power and either regularly conduct 20-minute FTP tests, or want to be able to bring your riders to the point of participating in a field test, it’s essential that you train them to tolerate longer intervals. Shorter HIT intervals are great, but longer intervals should also be a pillar of your training program. This “cruise” interval profile (i.e., longer aerobic intervals) is the perfect template for creating your own intervals of this nature. Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: A Playlist That Will Have You Jumping!
Spring into some new music with today’s themed playlist, which features songs with the word “jump” in them. Read more…
Profile: Tears from the Moon—A Hill Repeat Lunar-Themed Ride
The longest lunar eclipse of this century will take place next week on July 27. I’ve created a lunar-themed hill repeats profile with four climbs that get progressively longer. All the songs are moon- or eclipse-related, but you can use this profile for any lunar-theme ride to celebrate any full moon of the year.Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Bottom’s Up—A Drinking Playlist
Party it up with these songs about drinking!Read more…
My Cycling Class Today: One Rider’s First Experience Riding with Power Completely Changed Her Perspective
When you teach riders who are new to power consoles about riding with metrics and power, it will surely benefit their fitness journey. But when they experience an educational moment firsthand, it is particularly powerful and will stay with them forever.Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Burn, Baby, Burn—Profile and Playlist
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…
Three Advanced Cueing Methods to Help Participants Dial Up Success
Cycling instructors face an interesting challenge. We have the task of putting together safe, effective, and fun workouts, while choosing music that will motivate and move the soul. Beyond that we must also clearly, concisely, and repeatedly convey meaning, feeling, and intention to a room full of very different people with diverse learning styles and potentially dissimilar fitness levels. This article addresses your road map to success by describing three specific methods of communication to convey the desired level of effort and intensity required by participants within each and every class you teach.Read more…
When You Oversleep…and Internal Alarms Go Off
You’ve heard the saying “by failing to prepare, you prepare to fail,” right? Every second counts when you teach early-morning classes—what do you do when alarm clocks fail? Whether you rise before the sun or teach as it sets, this post by dawn-patrol coach Jackie Maniscalco can help ensure you’re prepared for success!Read more…
Quick Profile: Intervals from Obstacles
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…
Theme Ride Thursday: Songs with Numbers in Their Titles
Today’s Theme Ride Thursday is all about numbers. Here’s a list of our top 100 songs with numbers in the title or the lyrics. Read more…