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🎧 Step Outside Your Musical Box: Drum & Bass Edition
If you’re ready to bring a fresh kind of high-energy drive to your indoor cycling classes, drum and bass (D&B) might be your new secret weapon. With fast, rolling rhythms and deep, pulsing basslines, this genre works beautifully for endurance flats, FTP tests, VO2 max efforts, and even short anaerobic pushes. We’ve also included numerous song suggestions and a dozen cue ideas to help you match the unique flow and intensity of D&B tracks—keeping cadence high and energy steady from start to finish.Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: Soul for the Cool-Down
Looking for a closer that leaves your riders both wrung out and lifted up? This week’s song is all about release, reflection, and finishing strong with heart. Some tracks drive you forward, others remind you to breathe. This one does the latter. It’s an emotional reset that can turn recovery into the most memorable part of your ride.Read more…
How to Develop a Faster Cadence, Part 2: Four Considerations for Training Leg Speed
In Part 2, we dive into the foundation for raising your personal cadence threshold: form, technique, and pedal stroke. Learn four essential considerations—bike fit and posture, pedaling mechanics, relaxation, and focus—that help riders spin their legs more efficiently, expand their cadence range, and build power and endurance.Read more…
Friday Favorites: An Exotic, Hypnotic, and Dramatic Climb
This artist expertly fuses Middle Eastern traditional music with electronic beats. The result moves your mind and emotions, even without understanding the language of the lyrics.Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Movember and International Men’s Day
Let’s “mo”tivate: it’s mustache month! Here are two ideas for theme rides to promote Movember and men’s health. Plus two bucket playlists, one about men and boys, the other about none other than mustaches! Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Crank Up the Cat-titude—A Feline-Themed Indoor Cycling Playlist for National Cat Day
National Cat Day is coming, why not throw in a few feline tracks to celebrate our whiskered companions? While I haven’t (yet!) dedicated an entire profile to my cats, I’ve occasionally spiced up my playlists with a song or two from a purr-fectly curated cat-themed playlist that I’ve been nurturing for years. It’s got 150 tracks, some serious and some whimsical and fun. Here are a few of my favorites for you fellow crazy cat lovers to consider.Read more…
How to Develop a Faster Cadence, Part 1: Why Cadence Matters
Cadence isn’t just about leg speed—it’s a key part of the power equation that determines intensity and performance. This first article explores why developing an efficient, faster cadence matters, how to identify when riders are spinning too fast, and how instructors can use structured training to raise each rider’s “cadence threshold.”Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: Climb to This Powerful Indie-Rock Love Song
This song makes for a super-fun, head-bobbing seated climb at 62 rpm, all getting ready for a big standing climb rock wallop. Read more…
Friday Favorites: Spooky Vibes for Your Haunted Ride
This week I’m giving you not one, but four tracks! These selections are packed with eerie atmospheres, mysterious melodies, and just the right amount of suspense—perfect for weaving a little Halloween magic into your class.Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Go Time!
Sometimes all it takes is one word: GO! Use this bucket playlist to power your intervals with extra motivation, or try the full “Let’s Go” profile for five adrenaline-packed loops.Read more…