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Make power useful
Power gives indoor cycling instructors an objective measure of the work a rider is doing. Learn how to understand it, coach it and use it to build better sessions without letting the numbers take over the ride.
Indoor cycling has traditionally relied heavily on perceived effort, cadence and resistance. Those remain useful coaching tools, but power adds something different: an objective measure of a rider's output.
That creates opportunities for more precise training, clearer targets and measurable progression.
But displaying watts on a bike isn't the same thing as knowing how to coach with power.
Indoor Cycling with Power is designed to bridge that gap.
More information. For more intelligent training.
Power data can make indoor cycling more individual and more measurable, but only when the instructor understands what the numbers mean and what to do with them.
Objective intensity
Use measured output alongside the rider's own perception of effort rather than relying on guesswork alone.
Individual targets
Give different riders meaningful targets within the same class rather than asking everybody to produce the same number.
Better session design
Connect the purpose of the session to appropriate intensity and training demands.
Measurable progress
Use repeatable information to help riders understand changes in their performance over time.
What you'll learn
The course moves from understanding what power actually measures through to using it in practical indoor cycling coaching and session design.
Power isn't telling everyone to ride at 200 watts
The same absolute power output can represent a very different challenge for two different riders.
Useful power coaching therefore starts with the individual. The instructor needs to understand how an appropriate target is established, how intensity is communicated and how the rider's response fits with the data.
The result should still feel like good indoor cycling coaching, not a spreadsheet on a bike.
For instructors who want to understand the numbers
You don't need to turn every class into a power-based class. The point is to understand the tool well enough to use it appropriately when it's available.
Data serves the ride
Power is valuable because it gives us useful information.
It isn't valuable simply because it produces more numbers.
The aim is better coaching, better-targeted sessions and a better understanding of what the rider is doing.
Rider first
Numbers need context. The rider remains more important than the display.
Purpose first
Decide what the session is trying to achieve, then use power where it helps achieve it.
Explain, don't overwhelm
Good instructors translate technical information into clear, usable coaching.
Use more than one measure
Power can sit alongside perceived effort, cadence and other useful information rather than replacing them.
Indoor Cycling with Power
Develop the knowledge to understand power, interpret what riders are producing and use power information intelligently in indoor cycling coaching and session design.
Complete the course and add power coaching to your continuing professional development.
Indoor Cycling with Power
Study online and work through the course at your own pace.