[mikesbytes]

As distinct from what the guidelines say for RPM, in the sections where you go for it for say the last 15 or so seconds, whats your view on riders who exceed the cadence set by the music?

[JJ]

They clearly do not have enough resistance on! I'm probably gonna get flamed but I see a lot of Spinners that think just 'fanging it' (with no resistance) is the way to go. From someone who has knee issues I wanna go and shake some sense into them! (BTW my knee issues are not from lack of resistance when bike riding...) -anyway, I guess all I can do is give them the info during the class and it's up to them.

[mikesbytes]

Hi JJ, thanks for the reply. Good point about the resistance. I'm not that familiar with what the spinners but I have some background in track training and understand (and have used) some of the techniques that track riders do to increase their maximum cadence output. Anyway back to the topic.

So the situation you are describing, are they spinning too fast throughout the class or are we discussing that final 15 seconds when we are told to go for it?

[Sweetie-Pie]

I'm not an instructor but I cycle a lot and I agree with JJ not enough resistance. I would say, the equivalent to having very low resistance on and pedalling at high speeds is like cycling with your chain off....when put like that it sounds like a stupid thing to do.

If it was a non-choreographed spinning class rather than RPM, I'd introduce the idea of sprints on a hill - those are absolute killers but it gets the point across about what the final push should feel like. The point is not to get your legs to go round and round as fast as possible - the point is to get your bike to move as fast as possible, and for that a higher resistance and slower cadence is necessary.

SP

[mrtrpm]

If they are totally smooth with absolutely no bounce, I say go for it, thats a sprint with control.
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[mikesbytes]

This old thread has reappeared. I hear that there's something of interest in relation to higher cadences in RPM44 but my lips are sealed.

[euco09]

Is it something to do with turning the resistance down after a cretain amount of time into the sprint? And that if you are working hard enough then you should really need to do this ???? :-k

[mikesbytes]

Interesting guess, anyone else wanna guess