Best Indoor Cycling DVDs

Epic Austin takes you on a virtual training ride on the amazing roads and hills of Austin, Texas, home to Lance Armstrong, and features cyclists from Austin Cycle Camp. The route is based on the infamous Tour Das Hugel race held in Austin each fall and takes on 10 of the city’s hardest hill climbs with over 4,500 feet of climbing and grades of up to 20%! It’s our toughest training ride to date!

This 60 minute Indoor Cycling DVD includes a new “Just the Ride” menu option which gives indoor trainers, coaches and instructors a choice of either 60 minute and 45 minute versions of the ride to fit their training or class requirements.

The indoor season is just around the corner, so stock up on your epicRIDES virtual cycling DVDs and Digital Downloads, and make that ride inside this winter an epic one!
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Here, in the hill country west of Austin TX, is where Lance Armstrong learned how to ride and developed his incredibly climbing abilities.

These training videos from Epic Planet keep getting better and include more options that help an Indoor Cycling Instructor. Epic Texas Hill Country now has a “Just the ride.” option that skips the intro slides and goes right to the ride. This DVD is 125 minutes long but you can choose to play just 45 minutes or select different segments of the ride to play. I personally like this feature. Being able to start the video in different places keeps it fresh for my students – John

Using an Indoor Cycling DVD in your Spinning class adds some additional structure, structure that many Instructors feel they need to follow with their class profile and music playlist.

My suggestion is send your time creating the class profile and don’t try to make everything perfectly match the video. What I do is run through the DVD to get a general time line > then use that to build the profile.

Indoor Cycling 2.0™ is the transition from “Entertainment based Exercise” to “Results Driven Training”. A big part of Indoor Cycling 2.0 is the introduction of Training Tools that measure your work output.

Power / Watt Meters are great but now “what do I do with them in my class?’

Epic Planet offers Power Profiles for the Instructor or Cyclist that match the terrain of their DVDs.

You can see if this is something you would be interested in by visiting here.

Here is a great resource for learning how to teach a class using Indoor Cycles that include power meters like the Keiser m3 and Schwinn AC Performance.

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Each Epic Planet DVD includes a Training Guide provides a through description of the epicRIDES Training Zones as well as THREE DIFFERENT WORKOUTS to add spice to your indoor training!

epicRIDES Training Guides are FREE DOWNLOADS produced in Acrobat PDF format.

You can find a web page listing all available Training Guides by going to epicPLANET.tv catalog page and clicking the Training Guide link on the upper right hand side of the page

or by clicking here.

Here is the trailer for the new Spinning Indoor Cycling DVD Release From Epic Planet – Epic Rouge Roubaix

You can get it here and get it for 20% off if you use Coupon Code: BR01

Discount coupon is only good till April 15th

Did I mention that this DVD is 100 minutes long?

Pro Triathlete Matty Reed

As an Indoor Cycling Instructor or “Basement Indoor Trainer” having multiple coaching tracks to listen to adds value to these DVDs.

Every Global Ride virtual cycling DVD contains three coaching tracks provided by cyclists and industry leaders from around the world. Only Global Ride DVDs have this feature. These tracks not only provide variety for your listening pleasure, but each coach interprets the ride in his or her own way, putting their own spin on the experience. This gives you a different ride on the same route depending on the track you choose. Ride on monday, and come back tuesday for a totally different workout!

If you asked a frequent participant of my Indoor Cycling Class, “what is a typical class of John’s like?” They would tell you “endurance training with long efforts with lots of load (resistance).” In other words, long climbs! This new Indoor Cycling DVD, Epic Tucson, from Epic Planet is perfect for this type of class.

Take a virtual training ride with members of the Summit Velo Racing Team on an over 3,000 foot climb of Mt. Lemmon, a touchstone ride for serious cyclists around the world.

Here is the Trailer. You can get your own copy Here

The number of Indoor Cycling and Spinning® Indoor Cycle Class DVDs available has grown exponentially over the last year. Now there are excellent choices from Epic Planet, Global Ride and Endurance Films.

There are many different ways you can use these in your class and we will be exploring them in a future episode of the Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast. If you have a minute visit some of these sites:

Epic Planet

Global Ride

Endurance Films