I call this my Grand Canyon ride. I use the metaphor of standing at the edge, with great discomfort ahead of us and much relief behind us, to help my students understand the feeling of Threshold.
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Do you have expectations about the ability of your individual participants?
Ever notice how many of your expectations become a reality?
In many cases, this is due to your intelligence of your sport and fitness knowledge. However, research continues to demonstrate that a leader’s (i.e. coach or instructor) expectation of his/her followers (i.e. athlete or fitness participant) influence performance.
The phenomena is called the self-fulfilling prophecy. For indoor cycle classes, the premise is that an instructor initiates the following series of events that ultimately cause his/her expectations to be fulfilled: (more…)
See how lucky we are! We get to ride in a nice studio with our friends while these poor sods grind it out, all alone, in some dark & smelly basement.
If you like this, you should see where I sleep...
Actually this is only one of many cyclist submitted (they're actually proud of this) pictures of Bike Torture Chambers over at http://www.thesufferfest.com
While you are there check out their latest training video called Downward Spiral
