"Training with Power"
It is truly one of the most fun and challenging ways to get qualitative results with your indoor training time.
Are you ready to take your cycling to the next level? Are you looking for a time efficient, effective and safe cycling-specific workout? Are you ready to achieve optimal performance and improve your cycling?
Excel In Cycling Multi Riding Center consists of five stationary CompuTrainers™ connected to one central PC. Ride your own bike, while viewing your wattage (power), heart rate, cadence, and calories. Hundreds of road and multi-sport cycling courses from around the world are available for you to train on while you watch your results on a large screen and listen to motivating music on a professional sound system.
Excel In Cycling Multi Riding Center cycling allows group training in which each rider performs at his/her own level. It has shown itself to be the perfect supplement to outdoor riding. But most importantly, Multi Riding is high quality training that's really Effective, Efficient, Safe, and a whole lot of Fun!
Before you begin any training program it is best to determine your current fitness with a baseline measurement. Since on the CompuTrainer you'll be training with power, wattage values at baseline are the most crucial numbers. The baseline line test we do is called a Functional Threshold Test or Wattage at Lactate Threshold (w@LT). This test is done to determine how much power you can generate over longer periods of time and what you need to do to improve your efficiency and speed at and below lactate threshold. The course for this test is a 10-mile (16.1k) time trial, and it's flat. It can be administered in a group setting or individual. See prices and packages below.
SpinScan Pedal Stroke Analyzer is an excellent feature that is exclusive to the CompuTrainer, and it helps you increase power and efficiency. The multi-color torque graph represents one full 360° revolution divided into 15° segments. The left/right leg percentage power splits give you the feedback needed to pedal in "circles" rather than “squares”. It will identify "flat" or "dead" spots in the pedal stroke where optimal power is not transferred to the drive train. Now you can not only think in terms of feeling your feet through the four phases of the pedal stroke, but you can actually see just how efficient you are in each of these phases by virtue of the color graph
MultiRider Single Ride: $15/hr/person for groups who would like to train together on a specific course. Minimum group size is 3 (5 CompuTrainers are available at a time) with a 2 hr time minimum. Price includes full use of the facility's Sound and Video System. Teams and Coaches please contact me for group discounts.
Group Functional Threshold Test - The average wattage that you can sustain over a 20 minute test. This is often referred to as your 'functional threshold' - $75 on mutually agreed upon testing dates with a minimum of 3 per group.
Private One-on-One Functional Threshold Test: $125
SpinScan Test: $80/hr
Excel In Cycling is the first in the area to offer ErgVideo on the CompuTrainer
ErgVideo is the ONLY simulation of the true demands of cycle racing for CompuTrainer. The real-life power load is applied to you and your bike by the CompuTrainer via the ErgVideo & CompuTrainer software systems. So now your efforts are dictated by the pack's behavior, not just the course profile. You will change speed and output power often with the changes in the race. ErgVideo creates a true simulation of the real requirements of the ride or race. ErgVideos were filmed from inside real racing and training peletons. Now you can simulate real racing conditions in the comfort of our facility. Choose from a selection of triathlon, road race, criterium, time trial videos to race in. And don't fear......you SCALE the power profile to your own fitness level, so you need not be as fit as the cyclists in the videos, nor the cyclist your are racing against on the other CompuTrainers. In fact, each rider in our multi-rider center can ride at his/her own level, and always feel as though they are the main character in the thick of the action! And as you progress with your fitness gains, you can set the power-basis level higher and higher for the workout.
The ErgVideo Player
Here's a snapshot of what you see while riding an ErgVideo:
ErgVideo allows you to adjust the intensity level (AT) from the bike. It enables you to ride with anyone else, no matter how fit, because you can customize the load profile to each rider's capabilities!
Screen View
This shot shows the ErgVideo Player in action. Our CompuTrainers will apply the load according to the Power Profile and you experience a virtual race based on your chosen intensity level. Ride with your friends or ride with the Pros!
Call or email Pete with any questions concerning ErgVideo and it's use as a training aid.
Excel Adventure Sport & Photo LLC: Excel in Cycling 2009 CompuTrainer Time Trial Series
* Back in 2009 for more fast paced, side by side competition. Bring your favorite rival and race head to head, with no drafting! Or, if you are planning to race on your own, you can request to be seeded in a heat of like ability levels. Heats will hold up to five cyclists at a time.
* Charge: $20 Entry Fee per single attempt, or $50.00 for 3 single events, or $80.00 for all 5 events.
* Pete Gladden, Elite level cycling coach, of Excel Adventure Sport & Photo LLC will be running the event. Call him at 330-655-9350 for more details.
* There will be 5 races on 5 different courses this winter of 2008. Expect 25-55 minutes per race effort. The race time does not include warm up or cool down (Bring your trainer if you want to warm up). Plan for setup time, which includes bike prep, weigh in, and rider configuration in the computer.
* Races dates are soon to TBA soon.
