Time Trial
- Developing cycling specific strength
- Improving steady state lactate threshold power
- Enchancing your ability to respond to cadence changes during a Time Trial
- On-screen graphics provide constant guidelines for targeted exertion levels
- Instructions for all levels
Product Description
CTS Time Trial DVD/Video is a 60-minute workout that will help develop cycling specific strength, improve steady state lactate threshold power, and enhance your ability to respond to cadence changes during a time trail. *Chris Carmichael (United States Olympic Committee Coach of the Year) shares the secrets and techniques he uses with some of the top endurance athletes in the world *Workouts have been designed to maximize your training time and your athletic potential *In only a 60-minute workout you will improve your time trial power, efficiency and technique *Develop cycling-specific strength *Improve steady state lactate threshold power *Enhance your ability to respond to cadence changes during a time trial *Learn from Lance Armstrong’s coach, Chris Carmichael *These workouts and techniques are applicable to all cycling levels *Don’t just train, train right with Carmichael Training Systems’ Train Right Video Series. Item Specifications; Genre:Training/Instructional;
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This DVD came with my CycleOps indoor trainer. You can get a pretty good workout if you follow along, but as the other poster noted, it is rather boring. More Lance clips and some outdoor footage would have helped this video a lot.
Rating: 2 / 6
While the actual workout on this DVD is pretty good, I could have done just as well with the workout written down for me. The visual aspects of this DVD are uninspiring, the “coach” is trite and not particularly helpful, and there are too many references to Lance Armstrong (as much as I respect him, I don’t really believe nor care that this is the kind of workout that he does). In the future, I will just complete this workout with a stopwatch while listening to music that I like, or while watching something more amusing on the television.
Rating: 2 / 6
This DVD was a huge disappointment. After watching Robbie Ventura in Vision Quests Race Day (five stars, great motivator for winter indoor cycling) I ordered this DVD imagining something similar, but with Lance clips or TDF coverage. Instead, It is a group of non-smiling athletes on trainers with Carmichael walking around with a clipboard in some sort of warehouse. With cut to…. more shots of the trainers from different angles. They throw in a few minutes of TDF footage, but literally only a few minutes. Just enough to let you know what it could have been had they put it together “right”.
This workout is sound, and it might work well as a audio file, but as a DVD is stinks. It won’t get a second viewing from me, and certainly won’t get me through a winter of cycling in the basement.
Rating: 1 / 6
OK, CC is not the most electric video coach and interviewing the participants in the middle of the workout is probably ill-advised but.
As a basic Time Trial set this is a great workout. It is not too long and it focuses on building foundations for high cadence, high power output steady state aerobic efforts. That is what time trialing and Triathlon racing is all about…set your throttle as high as it will go and be just barely sustainable for the necessary amount of time. I race between 10 and 20 time trials a year and this workout fits right into my mid to late winter power building workouts…bonus is that most of my hard workouts are 90min to 120min which doesn’t work on most week days, so a reasonably hard day I can do twice a week is perfect. CC also does throw out some great helping tidbits and generally does a great job keeping you locked in.
My only complaint is about communicating/explaining gearing, the desired power/heart rate zones don’t seem to match the gearing the riders in the video are using. I have a hard time matching my output to the desired output using their gearing, though I also have a hard time hitting the 110 cadence so it could be me…
If you think this is boring….well…I look forward to you being road fodder this summer…you have to pay the price to make the time…
Rating: 4 / 6