Indoor Cycling Videos

[baskingshark]

My gym at work has some spinning bikes, but they don't offer spinning classes. Each bike has its own DVD player/TV monitor so in the absence of a class, can anyone recommend any good indoor cycling DVDs?

Thanks so much.

[chickwhorips]

i have the spinervals dvds and also the train right dvds. i personally like the spinervals better. i get a good workout with them.

[bambu101]

My BF has a Johnny G Spinner bike that he got last winter, and he has told me I can use it this year if I would like to. I have a Nordic Track Elite X-c ski machine, which I have had for 10 years, and have used it consistently 2 to 3 times per week, but would like to mix in some indoor cycling workouts.

I have looked at the Spinervals DVDs, and was wondering if anyone who uses them would recommend 1 or 2 titles for a beginner to start out with? Have to say, some of the titles are a little intimidating!

Also, as far as the CycloCore series, can these be used with a spinning bike, or a trainer only?

[bike4ever]

I started a spinning class Tuesday in the bike shop I manage. We supplied some of the trainers and asked others to bring their own. Since the target group is my women's email list, I wanted them to return next week. I began with the Spinerval 12.0 Recharge. Next week I will do 8.0 Recovery & Technique. And the next week we will do 2.0 Sweating Buckets. All of these are rated 7.5 out of 10 on their difficulty rating. I will admit that Sweating Buckets is the more difficult of these three. With any of these programs, you can choose to make it as difficult or easy as you want. I had women barely sweating (they said they didn't want to over do it the first time); while other women loved the challenge.

[Pedal Wench]

I prefer the Trainright ones - the Chris Carmichael ones. I like the way he discusses intensities and I can drown out the music with my ipod easier.

[Veronica]

A couple of us have done write ups here on TE reviewing different Spinervals DVDs. You may find those reviews helpful. I've also got a discussion of videos in a couple of different write ups about training for the Devil Mountain Double on my website.

I really like the Spinervals series. I feel they really contributed to my first successful Double Century last March.

V.