The Ultimate Super Bowl Ride: Can Your Team Take Home the Win?
Ready for a heart-pounding, fast-paced ride that will have your riders feeling like they’re on the field under the bright lights of the biggest game of the year? This exhilarating Super Bowl profile by ICA contributor Carole Herrell is the ultimate test of endurance, teamwork, and strategy. Whether their team made it to the championship or not, every rider will be locked in, pushing hard, and celebrating every victory together!
🏈 Game Plan:
After the warm-up, it’s time to hit the field. Riders will play offense for two songs, then switch to defense for two songs, continuing this pattern throughout the ride until the final whistle blows. The challenge? Adjusting resistance, speed, and mindset to match the demands of each play.
- On Offense: It’s all about speed, explosiveness, and agility. The goal is to outmaneuver the defense, gain yards, and score touchdowns!
- On Defense: This is where grit, strength, and determination shine. Riders must hold the line, block the offensive charge, and push the other team back into their own territory.
You, the instructor, are their coach, cheerleader, and referee, keeping the energy high and the game flowing. Get off the bike to correct form, encourage effort, and rally your team! A whistle will signal transitions, and a paddle with “O” on one side and “D” on the other will serve as a visual cue to help riders switch gears and shift their intensity.
🔥 Get in the Game:
To make this experience even more immersive, announce the ride throughout the week so participants can mentally and physically prepare for game day. Encourage them to wear their favorite team jerseys, headbands, or gear—whether their team is in the Super Bowl or not!
⏳ Time-Outs & Half-Time:
This is a high-intensity ride, but even champions need a break. As the coach, you have full control to call “time-outs” for hydration, focus, and short recovery. Plan on a half-time break midway through—just be sure to allow for extra time if needed!
💡 Coaching Tips:
- Offer modifications for less fit riders and remind them that it’s okay to sit out a play on the bench.
- Reinforce that this is a team effort—every pedal stroke matters!
- Encourage riders to do an easy recovery ride the next day to balance out the intensity.
🏆 Victory Awaits!
Expect sweat, determination, and a room full of smiling, exhilarated riders who gave it their all! Once the final whistle blows, your team will leave feeling like true champions.
Have fun coaching this one—we’d love to hear how your riders responded! Share your experience and let us know if your team took home the win!
- Reinforce that this is a team effort—every pedal stroke matters!
- Encourage riders to do an easy recovery ride the next day to balance out the intensity.
🏆 Victory Awaits!
Expect sweat, determination, and a room full of smiling, exhilarated riders who gave it their all! Once the final whistle blows, your team will leave feeling like true champions.
Have fun coaching this one—we’d love to hear how your riders responded! Share your experience and let us know if your team took home the win!
I love to read all the comments but don’t usually post. However felt I needed to share the positive feedback and excitment I got from my Sunday spin class after I taught the offense-defense switch theme ride. It was a packed house and the energy was blinding,had a lot of fun teaching this ride, everyone put their heart and soul into working really hard. I know very little about football being from the UK originally.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
I’m so happy your riders enjoyed the profile, Pauline. Thanks so much for the feedback!
Used the profile with a few song changes today. Group loved it and said it was challenging. I think we earned our nachos for game day!
Interested in the free downloads..don’t see that they are free. Am I missing how?? Nice picks BTW. Thanks
Hi Robin.
Dang, I just checked and you’re right it looks like the download link is no longer there. With Soundcloud, you never know if something will remain as a free download. I don’t know if it’s because they reached a limit, or because it’s not legal, or why.
Another stellar profile! Thank you ICA and creator Carole Harrell. When I showed up with a ping pong paddle (red on one side for defence and black on the other for offence) I think my participants were afraid of what I was going to use it for. When I explained the concept to them I saw the tension leave their faces. 😉 They all seemed to enjoy the ride and left with smiles on their faces and sweat on the floor. I tweaked the music a bit, adding in my favorite Seattle band the Foo Fighters (being from Vancouver we cheer for Seattle) on 4 of the songs and adding I’m Winning by Steve Winwood at song #12 (the song title and rpms fit the spot on the profile perfectly) I used We are the Champions as a cool down. For stretching off the bike I used one of my yoga songs. So here is my playlist:
1. Running One
2. Let’s Go
3. You Spin Me Round
4. Zombie Nation
5. If You Want Blood
6. Push It
7. Pretender (Foo Fighters)
8. Another One Bites Da Funk
9. Rope (Foo Fighters) Deadmaus5 Remix
10. Back to Skool
11. Everlong (Foo Fighters)
12. I’m Winning (Steve Winwood)
13. Walk (Foo Fighters)
14. We Are The Champions
I’ve conducted a Super Bowl Team ride many years. I set up bikes as teams facing one another with that year’s Super Bowl sign for each. Those that come early get the bike/team they want to be on, the later a rider arrives they don’t have much choice. That encourages riders to arrive very early for this event. I set up my ride as 4 Quarters with each team taking a turn at offense as a fast flat and defense as a climb with a small football being tossed back and forth between teams. They love that. I do include a 2 minute recovery (commercial break) between each quarter. Halftime features songs from the present season’s half time performance artist. I have the availability of Performance IQ at one studio and incorporated the Team screen to observe how far in front or behind the other team which makes for some extra smack talk and fun. Without Perfromance IQ i designate a captain for each team and they keep track of distance for the leader at the end of each quarter and the final overall winner. Warning, that did create some stress for those who took the scoring a teensy bit too serious. I look forward to bringing this new profile for Super Bowl Replay.
That sounds like a fun ride!