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Every instructor should have a large pool of short recovery songs to choose from. Every profile, except a steady-state endurance ride, benefits from moments for a physical and mental break. Here are over 6,000 songs that work perfectly for your recovery tracks, broken into three bucket playlists (and yes! Believe me, you’ll need a lot!). One is for shorter songs and one is for when you need some longer (over 3:15) songs for easier segments. A third one gathers whole albums of short songs if you want a recovery theme. Both Spotify and Apple playlists are provided. Read more…

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Here is the follow-up to my Facebook Live video on the importance of recovery within your interval-training sessions. This one comes with lots of great add-ons, including a 12-page guide on how to use music and coaching to keep riders engaged during the recoveries. It also comes with three Spotify playlists to help you choose both your high-intensity short interval songs of 1–3 minutes, and short songs that are good for your recoveries. You’ll never be lacking for recovery song options! Read more…

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Like many of us, I had gone through a number of life transitions, which can distract us from basic principles we all know well and usually practice, like RECOVERY. I’ve spoke about this to instructors at conferences and have given lengthy diatribes on the importance of adequate rest to those I’ve coached. Yet, here I am (again) finding myself fatigued.Read more…