Make your indoor training fun! The Spinervals series of indoor training DVDs
was created in 1992 by top cycling and triathlon coach, Troy Jacobson. These top
quality programs bring excitement to your indoor training with carefully paced
exercise routines. Excellent graphics and stimulating music tracks make the time
"spin" by.
Build endurance
Improve your efficiency
Strengthen your technique
Improve your times so you ride faster
New titles ~
NEW - Audio CDs ~
Spinerval has introduced 2 new Audio-Only workouts that are great away
from the TV as well as on your bike. Just make sure that while riding you can
still easily hear traffic around you!
MegaWatts
~
To develop maximum power on the bike you need to do explosive repetitions and
allow for almost complete recovery between efforts. Coach Troy coaches you
through a highly effective power-building routine of short, high-intensity
sprints to make you 1st over the line your next bunch sprint!
Fast
Legs! Fast Legs! ~
Develop the quick, smooth, and effortless spin that is essential for any
cyclist who wants to ride faster. Train to pedal at a higher cadence for
improved efficiency and increased cycling performance.
New DVDs ~
Autumn
Country Training Ride ~
In this relaxing DVD you ride with Coach Troy on location in some of the most
beautiful terrain in the U.S. In a Virtual Reality format, you'll feel as if you
are actually riding on the road as the scenery whisks by. The variety of terrain
develops your aerobic capacity in a very effective 50 minute session.
Time
TRIALapalooza ~
Ride with Coach Troy and a group of elite athletes from the Minnesota Cycling
community for a time trail workout guaranteed to improve your sustainable power
output. Use with or without a wattage computer to increase your anaerobic
threshold while learning to pace yourself for the full distance. Includes
progressively harder sets to challenge even the most serious athlete.
Includes a special chapter to help you fine tune your trial position!
HILLacious
~
Learn to defy gravity and climb like you have helium
in your tires!
Join Coach Troy and athletes from the Great Harvest Bread Company for a
challenging climbing workout. You'll be coached through interval sets focusing
on rolling climbs of 4-6% grade plus short, steep climbs of 10%! Includes a
special bonus chapter on proper hill climbing technique.
Spinervals Fitness Series ~ The Spinervals Fitness videos
and DVDs are great for cyclists
who want a great workout that won't leave them too tired to enjoy the
rest of the day! Train with Coach Troy and his guest athletes during these
challenging but moderate intensity interval sessions. We also recommend these
videos for more advanced cyclists during lower intensity and recovery oriented
training days.
Aerobic
Base Builders ~
4 DVD Series
Great for all "Comeback" riders!
This is a series of 4 separate DVDs all designed to enhance your aerobic
energy system and prepare your body for the harder anaerobic training that will
take you to your top form. Build greater endurance while enhancing your body's
ability to use fat as fuel. Each of the 4 DVDs works to develop your core
aerobic base, but they vary the routines so you never get bored.
Fitness 1.0 - Ride Strong
with Team Clydesdale
Join Coach Troy and several members of Team
Clydesdale for this 45 minute moderate intensity interval workout. Enjoy the
workout and burn between 600-1000 calories at the same time!
Fitness 2.0 - Sweating Buckets
Get that good sweat going at least once each day for
maximum health and fitness! Sweating Buckets with Coach Troy involves 45
minutes of various interval sets. This workout is perfect for improving your
spinning technique at a controlled and comfortable pace.
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Competition Series -
Workouts designed to
make you a stronger and faster rider. While these are hard workouts, beginners
are welcome too - just back off on the intensity.
Competition 1.0 - No Slackers
Allowed!
Join Coach Troy and 20 competitive cyclists in this 45 minute high intensity
workout. An exciting combination of interval sets including ladders, superspins,
tempo sets and sprints, "No Slackers Allowed" is for any athlete
hoping to improve all aspects of their cycling fitness.
Competition 2.0 - Time Trial
Special
The Time Trial. The Race of Truth! You against the clock. In Spinervals 2.0 -
Time Trial Special, you will prepare yourself for the race against the clock
with sustained intervals above your 40k Time Trial Pace. Perfect for the serious
time trialist or triathlete, this 60 minute workout will increase your anaerobic
threshold pace faster than you ever thought possible!
Competition 3.0 - Suffer-O-Rama
Let's face it. In order to become a faster cyclist, you have to endure
discomfort in training and racing. In other words, you have to learn how to
suffer!! Spinervals 3.0 - Suffer-o-Rama, will teach you how to suffer on the
bike with 45 minutes of explosive power sprints and highly anaerobic sets.
Brutal, but soooo effective!
Competition 4.0 - Muscle
Breakdown
In order to become a stronger cyclist, you need to overload your system and
break it down. Overload followed by rest and proper nutrition allows your muscles
to rebuild and become stronger. In Spinervals 4.0 - Muscle Breakdown, you will
experience a level of training intensity that does just that - breaks the muscles
down! A variety of effective interval sets in this 45 minute workout add up to
one of the best indoor cycling workouts ever produced!
Competition 5.0 - Mental
Toughness
Mental toughness is about learning to tolerate discomfort. It is about
training your mind to take your body to a new level. Spinervals 5.0 - Mental
Toughness, is a 90 minute workout with the emphasis on steady state intervals.
In the middle of the workout you will actually hop off the bike and
participate in a set of isometric squats, the ultimate 'mental toughness'
developing drill. This is the ideal workout for those longer sessions necessary
to develop high-end aerobic conditioning. A great addition to your Spinerval
Video collection!
Competition 6.0 - Zoot
Challenge
Join the elite athletes of Team Zoot for 45 minutes of creative leg burning and
power producing intervals! The Zoot apparel company
sent some of their top athletes to train for a day with Coach Troy. The result -
a 45 minute workout that gets you ready for the toughest competition!
Competition 7.0 - The Uphill
Grind
Hills... You either love 'em or you hate 'em. Our cast of elite female
cyclists, triathletes, and road cyclists suffer with you while developing
incredible hill climbing strength! Join Coach Troy and the group for the
ultimate 45 minute hill training workout video. Train alongside U.S. Olympic
Triathlete Joanna Zeiger as she prepares for world class competition!
Competition 8.0 - Recovery and
Technique After the hard "hammer sessions" with your buddies, do this 45
minute workout for maximum technique and cycling skill development. Coach Troy takes
you through several technique building sets including one-leg spinning drills
and high cadence super spins.
Competition 9.0 - Have Mercy
What word describes this video? Tortuous!! "Have Mercy" is a 2 hour
compilation of the hardest intervals sets from other Spinervals video workouts!
Remember the brutal acceleration sets?! The race simulation? The sprint sets?
Well… do them one after the other and you have one of the toughest two hours
you can spend on an indoor trainer!! You'll be begging Coach Troy to "Have
Mercy".
Have
Mercy, The Sequel ~
This demanding 2 hour session of interval workouts is one of the most
challenging you can do on your bike. It's designed to have you crying "Have
Mercy"! Guaranteed to rapidly increase aerobic fitness, strength, and SPEED.
The
Sprinting Machine ~
A 50 minute workout to increase your sprinting speed and power. Coach Troy
guides you and 25 accomplished athletes from the Fort Wayne, Indiana cycling and
triathlon community through this extremely intense training session. In it,
you'll do sprints on a 5:1 rest to work ratio - ideal for improving fast twitch
muscle fiber response and your ATP-CP energy system. Combined with a tough set
of Plyometric jumps, this workout will take you to your limits as you become
known to your training partners as the 'Sprinting Machine'!
Bending
Crank Arms ~
50 minutes of on-and-off the bike training designed for maximum strength
development. Includes work with dumbbells plus on the bike strengthening with
big, big gears.
Recharge ~
For your easy days!
Recharge keeps your leg muscles supple and relaxed between hard workouts.
This lower intensity training session is designed to promote technique
development and faster recovery. It's the perfect workout for your easy days.
Qty: Spinervals DVD - Recharge$29.99
Tough Love ~
The Tough Triathlon
workout!
Designed for the real
endurance athlete such as Ironman competitors. Tough Love is a 3 hour workout!
Available in DVD only.
Totally Time Trial ~
90 minutes of tough interval sessions to really make
you suffer! Coach Troy Jacobson takes you through very strenuous 15 minute
efforts designed to improve your focus, pedal stronger, and last longer.
Available in DVD only.