I tested the Adidas Zone Cycling, the sport special endurance
What's this ? Adidas has partnered with Club Med gym to create exclusively this new course inspired by the training of the British Olympic Champions of track cycling. Modernized version of a classic cycling course, the Adidas Zone Cycling combines endurance and speed in a clubbing atmosphere. Play of light and techno music accompany cardio work and muscle strengthening of the lower body.
How's it going ? I sit on my bike in a room dipped in the dark and rocked by dance rhythms. The atmosphere is immediately planted. For warm-up, the resistance of the bike is set to an easy mode and you start pedaling slowly under black light. Some cyclists become phosphorescent. If I had known, I would have also taken a sport white to shine in the night. But I am quickly drawn from my dreams. The light changes and the intensity of the course also.
In fact, each color of light indicates a different phase which lasts from 5 to 10 minutes and during which one pedal more or less quickly. We begin with green and a low aerobic phase, then yellow for high aerobic, red marks the higher performance phase and blue announces the delivery of recovery.
Intense fitness and clubbing!
During these different phases, we alternate endurance exercises during which we gradually increase the resistance of the bike, pedaling therefore requires more and more effort, and speed exercises where the resistance is low but you have to pedal as fast as possible. As the course progresses, the exercises become physical. My heart is racing, my legs spin a bad cotton but, standing or sitting, I continue to pedal (the coach is watching). I am growing with the music. It is indeed not just there for the principle, it accompanies our efforts, accelerates when we must intensify the pedaling. By concentrating on the rhythm of the different songs, I almost even forget that I'm pedaling like crazy.
At the end of the course, I'm not necessarily ready for the Tour de France but my legs are certainly much softer. The fight against celullite and special firm body continues!
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