tailgatetimer10 said:
Hannah is probably my least favorite instructor. My wife likes to take her classes when she wants an 'easy day'. I avoid her classes completely because she does not stay on the class and goes off on tangents. It drives me nuts.
Ah yes, the 90 second 1 minute intervals, the 45 second 15 second intervals. Those are at least in part why I became a spinning instructor. We had a few instructors at our gym that did that stuff and I hated it. I have a clock on my bike right in front of my face that tells me what 60 seconds is. When you tell me we are going all out for 1 minute, and the clock passes 90 seconds with no sign from you that the interval is over, I am going to check out on the class. That is exactly the kind of thing that will make me hold back on every interval expecting to go longer and need something extra left to cover the additional time beyond what you said we would be doing. It is one thing to get to 55 seconds and tell the class "come on, give me an extra XX seconds!" But it is another to just routinely make your intervals random lengths longer than you said they would be without saying anything about it.
That is the beauty of the power zone classes...you can trust the process, because you can trust the instructors to follow through on the profile they tell you they are going to do. I like to tell the class exactly what we will be doing for every set of intervals and then make sure I follow through on it. Knowing what is coming lets you measure your efforts appropriately and you can put everything into it when you trust the instructor not to throw a curveball at you as a surprise.
