Training with Power
The Weekly Ride – 072219 Beast Workout
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Full Ride PDFApple Music PlaylistSpotify PlaylistFile to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming)The Ride will be available for purchase in the iClass Builder Store (No Programming)A Podcast of the ride being delivered by a master instructor. This weeks ride is from Karyn! - “Today's ride has a focus on producing power in seated and standing positions. The main set involves holding onto power output, gear and pacing as we alternate body positions. Working with incomplete recovery, your riders will be challenged to maintain threshold power output which in turn will set the environment for positive physiological adaptations and increased fitness potential. Seated segments should feel very challenging with a slight...
Indoor Cycling Power Research #5: Show Me The Numbers!
Time To Dig In So we”™ve painstakingly done everything possible to setup and prepare our methods for a solid research project — at least as solid as any “non-university” research setting can hope for. We”™ve not only established a consistent protocol for...
Indoor Cycling Power Research #6: Bringing In The Big Guns
Let”™s Try This Another Way After testing 14 different bikes, with 6 of them also being repeat tested at least twice, I was pretty disappointed to see the data I reported in our last blog. This was never meant to be just an academic exercise. This had pure practical...
The Weekly Ride – 05/07/18 Intervals
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion No more hunting for new music or counting out cues to develop your ride profile. Here is your ready to ride profile for a fully choreographed ride, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards...
The Weekly Ride – 02/26/18 February Race Day!
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to make your...
The Weekly Ride – 011419 January Ride – Amy Smith
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
The Weekly Ride – 12/26/2017 Race Day Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to...
Power’s Second Coming for Indoor Cycling
I”™m going to go out on a limb here (wow, that”™s new for me right? NOT!) and say that we will see a resurgence of interest in Power this year. It”™s not rocket science nor spooky soothsaying, it”™s just logical from my point of view. When the Keiser & Schwinn...
Personal Spinning® Threshold (PST) Assessment
At WSSC I had the opportunity to complete a PST (Personal Spinning® Threshold) test - which is (their words) the key to Spinpower success. I couldn't agree more as knowing your maximum sustainable power or Heart Rate, and then building training zones around a known...
What WAS I thinking!?!
While there are lots of local races throughout the season, there is only one “in my back yard”. So naturally, I like to do either the MTB race, or the Road race. I did both one year, and well…let”™s not go there. Since I took the entire year off my normal MTB...
The Weekly Ride – 12/07/18 Last Years Holiday Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
The Weekly Ride – 04/16/18 Speed and Muscular Endurance
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion No more hunting for new music or counting out cues to develop your ride profile. Here is your ready to ride profile for a fully choreographed ride, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards...
ICI/PRO Podcast 339 Understanding the floors and ceilings of training with power
I prefer to limit the mathematical computations many Instructors typically ask of their classes. For example you'd never hear me say; "now I want everyone at 85% of their FTP" or... "this next interval is 30 seconds in Zone 5B which is 103 to 106% of your LT/AT heart...
ICI PRO Podcast 368 – Does Intensity Trump Duration?
Do Indoor Cycling Classes really need to be 45-60 minutes - to provide the health and fitness benefits expected by our participants? Asked another way: If your studio offered classes that were shorter (say 30 minutes), while still just as effective as 3/4 or a full...
Me & My Big Mouth
As is customary, I”™ve opened my big mouth and am faced with the proverbial “put up or shut up”. Don”™t get me wrong, I”™m not one to trash talk and overstate my abilities. However, I am one that is always challenging others to accomplish things they think are...
The Weekly Ride – 03/27/18 Cadence Work
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion No more hunting for new music or counting out cues to develop your ride profile. Here is your ready to ride profile for a fully choreographed ride, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards...
The Weekly Ride – 10/01/18 80s Endurance Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
The Weekly Ride – 02/19/18 Anti V Day Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to make your...
The Weekly Ride – 09/24/18 September 2018 Amy
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
The Weekly Ride – 03/12/18 Is It Spring Yet?
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to make your...
We're Screaming for a Standardized Language
In the biblical story about the Tower of Babel, God wanted to prevent Man from building a tower that reached into the heavens. Construction of the tower was going along very well as everyone was working efficiently toward their common goal of reaching into the sky....
The Weekly Ride – 020419 January Ride – Amy Smith
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
ICI Podcast 216 Learn the Language of Power from Cameron Chinatti and Doug Rusho
Do you know the Language of Power? I invited Cameron Chinatti and Doug Rusho from Stages Indoor Cycling back to the Podcast to learn how they communicate the concepts of Power in ways that reach the different learning styles and personalities in your classes. Here's...
Are you using this feature correctly… or at all?
Did you know that all of the Indoor Cycles that use magnetic resistance (FreeMotion S11.9, Keiser M3i and Schwinn AC) have a built in feature that will help your riders get stronger, create more power and burn more calories if you recognise and cue to it properly? The...
New Week, New You! Profile from Cycling Fusion
Cycling Fusion Master Trainer Zack Hawthorne has published a new class profile: New Week, New You! We have been hitting you guys with some higher rate rides. Well this is what I would consider a "fun" ride around town. We are getting a lot of base miles. Base miles...
The Weekly Ride – 022519 Aerobic Challenger – Karyn Silenzi
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
Indoor Cycling Power Research #7: Good News, Bad News
Different Methods Same Skewed Results Let”™s start with the good news. I”™m sorry, I was completely pulling your leg. I really don”™t have any good news. I know, that”™s terrible — you can throw pencils and small farm animals at me next...
The Weekly Ride – 04/30/18 Get Springy
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion No more hunting for new music or counting out cues to develop your ride profile. Here is your ready to ride profile for a fully choreographed ride, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards...
Performance Cycle Class Week 2
Week #2 of my Performance Cycle class and I introduced the concept of using your stage average watts as a "riding buddy" today + had a nice email when I got home. Hi John- Thank you so much for the great class this morning. I took a picture of my results when I was...
Keiser Tour de Power
- My original objective of the Power blog here in ICI/PRO was to build the case for power precept upon precept, slowly but surely. Good idea, except for folks who already find themselves teaching on power bikes and are anxious to get to the meat & potatoes. So,...
The Weekly Ride – 032519 Queen Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
Three steps to coping with inconsistent power meter readings on Indoor Cycles
It's a fact of life for all of us teaching power based classes; inconsistency in the watts readings between cycles. Some brands seem to be better than others. Certain bikes seem to be always right, while others are never even close. Calibration is done more frequently...
Meterless Doesn’t Mean Powerless
It”™s time to start thinking about developing our power, but what do we do if we don”™t have a power meter? First, you will want to build on that good cardiovascular foundation that you now have underneath you from base building this winter. What”™s that? You mean...
ICI Podcast 302 – Indoor Cycling Compendium for Power Training
A compendium (plural: compendia) is a concise, yet comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge. A compendium may summarize a larger work. Gene Nacey with Cycling Fusion knows Training with Power - indoors and out. The Indoor Cycling Compendium for Power Training...
The Weekly Ride – Week 10
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to...
Power, Part 1: What About the Watt?
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas - The Watt. Ten Newton Meters. Ten times the force necessary to raise 1 kg 1 meter vertical in 1 second. Clean. Absolute. The cyclist”™s preferred training statistic. Whether it”™s power-to-heart rate ratio, sustainable watts...
Bring Heart Rate Training Into A School Near You
While most of us are focused on adult fitness, Sally Edwards and her Heart Zones company are doing some pretty amazing stuff with middle and high school aged children - using display training technology to motivate kids and get them active :)...
Performance Cycle – FTP Assessment Class
Here's the profile I used a while ago in our Performance Cycle FTP assessment. [wlm_private 'PRO-Platinum|PRO-Monthly|PRO-Gratis|PRO-Seasonal|Platinum-trial|Monthly-trial|PRO-Military|30-Days-of-PRO|90 Day PRO|Stages-Instructor|Schwinn-Instructor|Instructor-Bonus|28...
The Weekly Ride – 120218 HIIT Class – Karyn Silenzi
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Sweating Is No Badge Of Honor
Note: Gino's articles are supposed to be for ICI/PRO members only. He feels very strongly about this subject and asked that I make it available for everyone. - John As an Indoor Cycling / Spinning® instructor, you know how important good air flow is. Don”™t you? ...
The Weekly Ride – 12/18/2017 Holiday Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to...
The Weekly Ride – 08/06/18 Boombayah Ride
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The Weekly Ride – 01/08/18 Speed Work
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to make your...
The Power of 3 – Keep it Simple and Progress – Profile (Sept 2015 Week 1.1 @ Threshold) Do You FTP?
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Over the last 2 years I've been performing a FTP (Functional Threshold Power) test on the first Thursday and Friday of every month in every facility I teach in that has bikes with power. I have yet to have anyone complain or comment...
Power for the people survey
Cameron Chinatti from Stages Indoor Cycling is looking for Instructors and participants who know their FTP (Functional Threshold Power). I'm not sure exactly what she's doing with the results of this survey - but it only will take you two minutes to complete, so...
Heart Rate and FTP Zone Calculators
Math, for some of us, isn't our strong suit... especially when you are trying to compute specific training zones on the fly using Lactic/Anaerobic Thresholds (LT/AT) or Functional Threshold Power (FTP) MTB coach Curt Wilhelm has created two easy to use, online tools...
ICI Podcast #232 – Some Simple FTP Math From Joe Friel
Cameron Chinatti excitedly emailed me about a discovery she made while reading The Power Meter Handbook: A User's Guide for Cyclists and Triathletes which is a new eBook from Endurance Coach Joe Friel. In this new ebook, Joe lays out a simple formula that you can use...
Adding some friendly competition to your class
Updated: 11/23 Flywheel Sports is a chain of Indoor Cycling studios who started in New York city. They have had tremendous results and growth, now with 12 locations in three states; New York, Florida and Illinois. A big part of their success has come from a...
Be A Time Miser, Don’t Waste Another Minute
Time is the great equalizer. We all have different abilities, different income, different experiences, but one thing we all have the same of, is TIME. I don”™t know about you, but I am a time miser; greedy, protective and otherwise fanatical about not wasting...
Performance Cycle – Pinning Down Two Numbers Class Profile
I hate math, especially when I'm forced to do quick calculations in my head. Figuring (forgive the pun) that many other people dislike math, I won't ask anyone to do any calculations in my classes. For example, I would never cue something to the effect of; now I need...
Tech Tuesday – Look at all this data!
Both the FreeMotion S 11 series and Schwinn AC Indoor Cycles have the ability to record your ride data using a USB Thumb Drive. This past Sunday I asked Alan ******, one of my regular students, if he would be willing to have his class performance data recorded so I...
The Weekly Ride – 123118 Power Climbs – Karyn Silenzi
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
Performance Cycle – FTP Assessment or 2 + 1 = a straight line
Better late than never they say. It certainly applies to this season's Performance Cycle classes - now we're in full swing after some initial confusion that came from a sudden change on GFDH's. We kicked off this past Sunday with an assessment to find the wattage...
The Weekly Ride – 02/10/20 Your 10X Stronger Than You Think
This class is meant to see if you can't surprise yourself and go just that little bit harder. We will increase our resistance (by gear or watts or HR) 10 times once we warm up. Because both power and heart rate are not linear, but are more exponential, the final 4 increases are half the others.
The Weekly Ride – 07/09/18 Strength
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Ok, this is the week that I have been working towards, this is our new era of The Weekly Ride. This week and moving forward you will get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride...
Cardio vs. HIIT: Why Not Combine Them?
The debate over cardio vs. high-intensity interval training (HIIT) usually assumes that the issue is an either/or choice. In that debate, HIIT is usually compared to absurdly low levels of cardio exercise — not to the kinds of classes ICI-PRO instructors probably...
The Power of 3 (Video) – The Triple Crown
After 37 years of waiting we finally have another Triple Crown Winner. I love horse racing, the beauty, the grace and the power of these animals is intoxicating. Over the last 37 years there have been many horses that have won 2 of the 3 Triple Crown races, but they...
The Weekly Ride – 04/23/18 Let The Season Begin
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion No more hunting for new music or counting out cues to develop your ride profile. Here is your ready to ride profile for a fully choreographed ride, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards...
Performance Cycle Class Week 4
Finding a sub for your typical Indoor Cycling class can be a real challenge at times... finding someone qualified to coach a room full of experienced cyclists and endurance athletes expecting a Performance Cycle class can be nearly impossible. Impossible that is...
The Weekly Ride – 10/29/18 Amy's Mixed Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
Power Training for Indoor Cycling Is Here
It”™s Official. With CEU credits being given, and accomplished indoor instructors being challenged, educated and motivated to train with power… I can confidently say we have the real deal. We spent 6 hours off the bike exploring the foundation, science and...
The Weekly Ride – 05/28/18 Mixed Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion No more hunting for new music or counting out cues to develop your ride profile. Here is your ready to ride profile for a fully choreographed ride, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards...
Me & My Big Mouth
As is customary, I”™ve opened my big mouth and am faced with the proverbial “put up or shut up”. Don”™t get me wrong, I”™m not one to trash talk and overstate my abilities. However, I am one that is always challenging others to accomplish things...
You're making exactly the same power standing – as you are seated
"Why do I make less power (fewer watts) standing, then when I'm seated?" This a a great question that we get often. I loved John's answer, and so I have done a few edits and present it here..... Joey A great questions from one of the riders in a Performance Cycle...
The Weekly Ride – 12/16/19 Last Years Holiday Ride
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/2018-holiday-ride/pl.u-1Bj1tABz9LEWelcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist This weeks ride is the 2018 Holiday ride...
The Weekly Ride – 02/12/18 Strength Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to make your...
The Weekly Ride – 121718 The 2018 Holiday Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
Comparing Spinning's® Friction to Stages – Keiser or Schwinn Magnetic Resistance
NOTE: this was a previous review from 2013 that continues to remain accurate when applied to any of the magnetic friction Indoor Cycles available today. Many Indoor Cycle manufacturers claim a connection with cycling outdoors: 100% Authentic - Spinning is authentic....
Demystifying power for the runners in your classes
John, I'm still confused by this power stuff... where should I be riding? How many watts should I be seeing on my monitor, because I'm no where close to my body weight? I get questions similar to this frequently from members. My answers has evolved over time: I used...
Indoor Cycling Power Research Study Launches
My last blog post was ended with this statement: “This blog represents the first in a series that will be exploring power and how we can make it more accessible, more understandable, more reliable, and more straight forward to teach with.” To live up to those lofty...
Ride indoors with a Pro Cyclist and he'll have you doing high cadence standing climbs
This is cool! Professional cyclist Alex Howes taught a class at the Peloton Cycle studio in Manhattan. This article explains how Alex taught what was only his second Indoor Cycling class. My guess is that he doesn't have a IC cert - not that it matters.[wlm_private...
Tabata = Effective? ACE says YES!
I just read a press release and accompanying article from the ACE - The American Console on Exercise PRO SOURCE magazine about their study to gauge the effectiveness of High Intensity Training (HIT). Is Tabata All It's Cracked Up To Be? “It seems like everything...
You’re an engine… act like it.
As a followup to Part 1, a question for you; Are you a Ferrari or a Peterbilt? I have a friend, a very accomplished cyclist, who fancies himself a Ferrari. To look at Eddy you'd have to agree; he's long, lean and very sharp looking. But to ride with him may have you...
How many watts should I be making at threshold?
If you're teaching with power, there's a good chance you'll have a participant ask you this simple question; how many watts should I be making when I'm working at my threshold? Same goes for any new studio or one that is upgrading to indoor Cycles with power/watts....
Matrix IC7 Indoor Cycle Powered By ICG®
Matrix and the Indoor Cycling Group (ICG®) debuted their new IC7 Indoor Cycle with power at IHRSA last month. In many respects it's different from any group cycle on the market today. You could go so far as describing a number of their technical innovations as...
Use Power Games To Beat Back Ignorance
So we’ve talked about why Indoor only riders will benefit from Power Training, and in the last post we reminded the avid outdoor cyclist just why Power is a must for their continued growth and improvement riding outside… but how to get started. That’s the...
Stages Cycling takes on Garmin!!!!!
INTRODUCING STAGES DASH & STAGES LINK August 29, 2016 PRESS RELEASES, PRODUCT UPDATES, VIDEOS Stages Cycling introduces a complete training experience with two new products for 2017 that complement the Stages Power meter: Stages Dash and...
The Weekly Ride – 06/04/18 Mixed Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion No more hunting for new music or counting out cues to develop your ride profile. Here is your ready to ride profile for a fully choreographed ride, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards...
How To : FTP Test by Ben Sharp of Stages Cycling
FTP, a concept refined by power authority, Dr. Andy Coggan, is an estimation of the amount of work you are able to do in an hour. It serves as the basis for loads of other important metrics (e.g. TSS, CTL, ATL, TSB, etc.) that will be covered in future entries....
High Cadence Climbing Techniques
Besides sporting those fabulous sideburns, Tour de France leader Bradley Wiggins is demonstrating how to climb effectively using a much faster pedal cadence than the riders that surround him. I've been counting his pedal RPM during the climbs and today as I watched,...
The Weekly Ride – 10/22/18 Halloween Endurance
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
The Weekly Ride – 07/30/18 Explosive Strength Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
4 Newer Hill Workouts for Indoors or Out
This post has been adapted from an article By Selene Yeager published on June 13, 2019 which can be found HERE. The following is excerpted from Climb! by Selene Yeager–your guide to train for, conquer, and ultimately fall in love with hills. I (Joey) have read Climb!...
The Weekly Ride – 010719 Confusion – Karyn Silenzi
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
The Weekly Ride – 02/17/20 Fast Furious Cadence
This class is meant to see if you can't surprise yourself and go just that little bit harder. We will increase our resistance (by gear or watts or HR) 10 times once we warm up. Because both power and heart rate are not linear, but are more exponential, the final 4 increases are half the others.
The Weekly Ride – 01/15/18 Low Zones Fun Times
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to make your...
The Weekly Ride – 02/03/20 3 Levels Of Muscular Endurance
This ride is designed to give you specific guidance for spring riding or better yet, Spring Training on Muscular Endurance.
Star Trac Spinner® Blade Ion Review
Star Trac had the new Spinner® Blade Ion on display at IHRSA. I rode one during Josh Taylor's 6:30 am demonstration ride this past Thursday. After the class I discussed the Ion's new features with Josh. I then got an overview of Spinning's new Spinpower™...
The Weekly Ride – 01/29/18 Let's Heat It Up!
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion: No more hunting for new music or counting out cues. Here is your ready to ride document, that can be displayed from your phone, or printed out onto cue cards. This ride is timed out, down to the second, to make your...
ICI/PRO Podcast 326 – Racing Your FTP Audio Class PROfile
Now that I'm an official Stages Indoor Cycling Master Educator, I figured I needed to create an Audio Profile so you can hear how I teach one of my Power classes. My profile is “Racing Your FTP”. The goal is very simple; beat your FTP or “Threshold Check” numbers on...
This Stuff Really Works!
Sixteen weeks, countless hours on the bike, more Yoga & Pilates than I thought I”™d ever see, and all the 40+ VO2 tests later, the results are finally in. The Winter Training program based on Cycling Fusion Training principles, at Global Ride has produced results...
Understanding and Communicating % of Grade
How steep is a 4% grade? 8%? Over 10%? How do I effectively explain % of grade to my class? What are the feelings I would experience climbing different % grades on a bicycle? And finally, how do I effectively communicate that feeling to my class? Every July we hear...
Crappy Weather? Then how about a 2 Hour Endurance Class?
Every year it's the same. We all have high aspirations that the weather will be nice enough to ride what's called the Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride. Not a true Ironman (no swimming or running thank God), this Ironman is the first large, organised/supported ride of...
Data Revealed — Time To Geek It Up
It”™s finally time to take a look inside. First I have to apologize for taking almost 2 months to report on results that were secured after just 4 weeks of data collection. That”™s part of the problem with Evidence Based Cycling; once you do herd all those cats on...
Power Meters
The information below is from my upcoming book Ride Inside which will be published by VeloPress and Available on shelves in late November 2019 The Power Meter When looking at the intensity of exercise, especially in the world of cycling, power is the...
The Weekly Ride – 050619 Soul Builder
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDFApple Music PlaylistSpotify PlaylistFile to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming)The Ride will be available for purchase in...
The Weekly Ride – 042919 Speed Work
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
The Weekly Ride – 042219 Motown Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
Just relax and do what you normally do… Cycle Sculpt Profile #3
With 40°f and rain scheduled for this past Sunday, I agreed to sub the 9:00am Cycle Sculpt class at the Life Time Fitness where I have scheduled classes. This was my third chance to teach this LTF branded format that combines Indoor Cycling and Resistance...
The Weekly Ride – 031119 Stopwatch – Renee Shapurji
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
I Ride Outside. So what’s The Big Deal About Power?
In a previous post we talked specifically about the reasons why “non-outdoor riders” would want to train with power. There needs to be incentive for all populations, and thus our focus on those that don”™t ride outside was appropriate as a starting point. However,...