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Theme Ride Thursday: Crank Up the Cat-titude—A Feline-Themed Indoor Cycling Playlist for National Cat Day
National Cat Day is coming, why not throw in a few feline tracks to celebrate our whiskered companions? While I haven’t (yet!) dedicated an entire profile to my cats, I’ve occasionally spiced up my playlists with a song or two from a purr-fectly curated cat-themed playlist that I’ve been nurturing for years. It’s got 150 tracks, some serious and some whimsical and fun. Here are a few of my favorites for you fellow crazy cat lovers to consider.Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: A Ramp Rich in Resistance
This week’s pick builds from a steady groove in the saddle to a standing finish. Forget the bank balance, because the only thing climbing here is your effort. Ride the ramp and see where it takes you.Read more…
Friday Favorites: This Climb is 19 Years Overdue
Some songs are so perfect for indoor cycling that you just assume they’ve been in the ICA library forever. Imagine my surprise when I discovered this 2007 favorite somehow slipped through the cracks! It’s gritty, ridiculously catchy, and has enough swagger to make me want to point the bike uphill and add some resistance.Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Go Time!
Sometimes all it takes is one word: GO! Use this bucket playlist to power your intervals with extra motivation, or try the full “Let’s Go” profile for five adrenaline-packed loops.Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: 20 Years of Taylor Swift—Ride through the Eras
Calling all Swifties! From country beginnings to pop superstardom, celebrate 20 years of Taylor Swift with one ride-worthy track and cycling suggestion from every era. And yes, we’ve got a profile option as well!Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: The iPod Turns 25—Press Play on 2001 with a Profile
Twenty-five years ago, the iPod put 1,000 songs in our pockets and helped transform how we brought music into the cycling studio. Celebrate this milestone with a nostalgic 2001 profile featuring three progressive climbs.Read more…
Wednesday Timeless Classics: A Mysterious, Otherworldly Voice
This versatile song can play many roles. I love to use it as a warm-up, but it also works beautifully in the middle of your ride as a gentle climb, a slight headwind, or a moderate-energy flat road. Wherever you place it, the singer’s haunting, otherworldly voice has a way of drawing you in and making even the simplest stretch of road feel deeper, more mysterious, and more meaningful.Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: Ready to Be Persuaded?
A pop icon steps into a new era with a bass-driven track that’s made for movement. Turn up the resistance, lock into the rhythm, and let the music do the persuading.Read more…
Wednesday Timeless Classics: A Timeless Climb with an Extraordinary Piano Solo
One of the first songs I used as a Spinning® instructor, this track has been in my repertoire since the mid-’90s—and it still feels just as special. A great climb doesn’t always need high energy. Sometimes all you need is a beautiful rhythm, a gradually building challenge, and a piano solo so good that you can’t help but pretend you’re playing it yourself.Read more…
Friday Favorites: A ’90s One-Hit Wonder Gets a Genre-Crossing Reboot
A massive, high-energy global smash fuses 1990s dancehall reggae with modern Latin rhythm, giving a forgotten one-hit wonder an unexpected second life. Find out which nearly 30-year-old sample got a reggaeton reboot, and why it is the perfect way to start class off on the right pedal.Read more…