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Riding rolling hills on a bicycle can be a thrill, especially when they are short and continuous. Because of this, they translate beautifully into indoor cycling classes. But teaching rolling hills is more than just alternating a climb with a “downhill.” To coach them in an authentic way, it’s important to understand how a cyclist would approach them, how gravity will affect your speed of ascent, and how cyclists take the descent. Then you need to know how to use the energy of the music to define your ups and downs. They are so much fun that your riders will be asking for them by name!Read more…

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What’s Up? Who Knew? Isn’t She Lovely? How Long? Who Can It Be Now? Are You Ready? Who Are You? What Am I? How Will I Know? (Can You) Tell Me Why? Who Do You Love? So many great questions, so many great songs! You’ll surely find some fun ones for a theme ride in this curated playlist of more than 310 songs, all that ask important questions. Read more…

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If you’ve been in the Spinning® world a while, you’ve been hearing songs from this group since the early days, and they never get tiring. This is one of those songs. It can slide perfectly into many different crevasses of your profiles. Such diversity makes this one of those must-have songs you will use again and again, especially for your special profiles. There is also a 10-minute trance version to use on a climb.Read more…

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Buckle up, folks, because this one will challenge you in a different way than our profiles with longer intervals! Encore means “again” in French, and we are going to do these short intervals again, and again, and again. I’ve provided a video of me teaching this ride to give you tips and tricks on how to teach it. This one demands a lot of focus!Read more…