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ErgVideo and Hunter Allen Power Package
ErgVideo, teamed with Hunter Allen and the Peaks Coaching Group, brings you an unbeatable power-based training system to take your CompuTrainer or VeloTron to a whole new level.
Here’s more about what you get:
Hunter Allen’s Introduction to Power Training with CompuTrainer
This is your perfect introduction to power-based training principles from a leading expert on the subject, Hunter Allen of Peaks Coaching Group. It’s a concise and complete primer on terminology used by coaches, athletes and physiologists in describing how to benefit from power measurement in cycling and triathlon training. Hunter will lead you through threshold testing procedures, establishing and understanding training zones, and even provide an 8-week plan for threshold power development.
Hunter Allen Power Training ErgVideo Series, plus the Threshold Test HD ErgVideo
ErgVideo and Hunter Allen have developed a series of 6 ErgVideos that capture some of Hunter’s favorite threshold development workouts. They’re filmed in sunny Virginia USA with members of his Peaks Coaching Group team. You’ll also get the HD Threshold Test ErgVideo to set your baseline FTP and training zones, and to measure your progress through the plan. These ErgVideos support directly the Hunter Allen 12-week ErgVideo Power Training Plan described below.
Hunter Allen 12-week ErgVideo Power Training plan
This plan is the ultimate in convenience and effectiveness to develop your cycling and triathlon power with CompuTrainer. It integrates directly into the ErgVideo environment so your daily session is automatically selected from inside the plan. Once you have your ErgVideos, you get the plan from the ErgVideo website with these easy steps:
- • Visit the ErgVideo Training Plan page here
- • Select the Hunter Allen Power training plan option for 3 sessions per week.
- • Pick your starting date for training, adjust/customize features if desired.
- • Download and integrate your plan into yout ErgVideo environment
There are plenty of resources at the ErgVideo website to help you every step, including “how-to” instructional videos, newsletters, and written instructions (for example, here). You will also find the training plan web page leads you through the process step by step.
More info on ErgVideo & Hunter Allen
About ErgVideo
ErgVideo™ brings you more than 100 real-video, power-based riding experiences, ranging from focused, specific training sessions to spectacular climbs of cycling’s most famous mountains. The crew at ErgVideo have filmed real races and training rides from right inside the action, in iconic places like Mont Ventoux and the Col du Tourmalet. Top riders lead you through intervals sessions, races, triathlon courses, and effective workouts for cyclists and triathletes alike. ErgVideo™ operates your CompuTrainer™ or VeloTron™ in the power-targeted ergometer mode. This is power-based training at its very best, and you complete your workouts on target, everytime. It is perfect for the home and studio, supporting 1-24 riders. Click the picture for a complete explanation of ErgVideo™, or read all about ErgVideo at their website here.
About Hunter Allen and the Peaks Coaching Group:
Hunter is among the leading world-authorities on training with power, and his team is the largest, most experienced group of coaches using power technologies in the world. Hunter has co-authored “Training and Racing with a Power Meter”, the go-to book on power training. He is a key faculty member at USA Cycling in its power-training certification program. He works with top elite and pro riders who trust his plan design and power analysis to maximize their results. He is a co-developer of the world-leading WKO+ software. His expertise is shared among his team of 50 PCG coaches who undertake not only USAC certification, but PCG exclusive power-training certification as well.
ErgVideo™ has partnered with Hunter Allen and the Peaks Coaching Group™ to bring you free training plans, designed by Hunter himself. These plans use new ErgVideos featuring Hunter and his team riding their favorite training sessions on the road. Filmed in sunny Virginia, these ErgVideos show Hunter and members of his team riding some of his most effective power-building sessions, in the greenest of springtime, on the smooth roads of Virginia, USA.
The Hunter Allen Power Training Series of ErgVideos
Hunter Allen Power Training: Functional Threshold Power Ramps HD
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Filmed in Virginia, this ErgVideo combines an interesting variation on Threshold power development intervals with fast pedaling drills. The threshold intervals are 10 minutes long and ramp-up in intensity when you least like it, but when it’s best for you! The fast pedaling drills are great to try in the off-season and will improve your efficiency. This ErgVideo is part of the Hunter Allen Power Training Series depicting his most-recommended early training-phase workouts. As usual, it comes with several variations and you can use the ErgVideo ride designer to add more variety. You’ll even ride with Hunter himself on some of his favorite roads!
Hunter Allen Power Training: Power MicroBursts and Tempo HD
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Microburst intervals are short and intense, with very short rest in between. In this ErgVideo, part of the Hunter Allen Power Training series, Hunter and his team from the Peaks Coaching Group lead you in 3 sets of 10 minute intervals, each filled by 30 or 20 second microbursts. This session is very hard, but your immediate reward is a nice 30 minute Tempo ride on the smooth roads of Virginia in springtime. As always, this ErgVideo comes with several workout variations, and you can create your own with the ErgVideo ride designer.
Hunter Allen Power Training: Over-Under Sweet Spot Intervals HD
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You won’t ever win a race by pedaling along all day in the sweet spot: you’ll be forced, over and over again, to exceed it and recover. Exceed and recover. Rinse and repeat. This ErgVideo, part of the Hunter Allen Power Training Series, will repeatedly force you well over “the sweet spot” and back down below it, throughout 2 sets of 20 minute intervals. This ErgVideo is difficult, but it’s a key session in your early season training phase, as well as during the racing season. We throw in some fast-pedaling drills at the end to help improve your pedaling efficiency. This ErgVideo comes with several variations and you can use the ride designer to add more intensity, more intervals…more variety!
Hunter Allen Power Training: Base-Tempo Virgina HD
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What’s early-season training without a “club-style” unrestricted ride with your pals? In this ErgVideo, part of the Hunter Allen Power Training Series, your virtual clubmates are Hunter himself and his team from the Peaks Coaching group. They find themselves in rolling hilly terrain, on smooth roads, and under sunny Virginia skies. The hills cause the odd over-kill in the power department, and you’ll be chasing the more aggressive riders more than once. This ErgVideo comes with several variations, and the ride designer can be used to change the flow and intensity to your liking.
Hunter Allen Power Training: The Tempo Grind HD
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This ErgVideo presents a new way to enjoy your Tempo zone Training in a long progressive cadence session. As part of the Hunter Allen Power Training Series, he recommends you ride the first 15 minutes at low cadence, the next 15 at a medium, and the final 15 at high cadence. He and his team do it all with you! After a short rest, they lead you in some very intense 1 minute anaerobic intervals, all on the sunny roads Virginia. As usual, this ErgVideo comes with several variations and you can use the ErgVideo ride designer to add even more variety. ia in springtime. As always, this ErgVideo comes with several workout variations, and you can create your own with the ErgVideo ride designer.
Hunter Allen Power Training: Explosive Power Sweet Spot HD
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Ahh, there’s nothing like riding in that power “sweet-spot” that’s on the high end of Tempo and the low end of Threshold power, where you can ride and train effectively for a good long time. This ErgVideo depicts a challenging variation on the 2×15 minute sweet-spot intervals by forcing you to do 3 short, explosive efforts with equally short rest, right before you settle into the sweet spot. We follow that up with 3×5 minute “big gear/low cadence” intervals to help build your pedaling strength. It’s filmed in Virginia, and it’s part of the Hunter Allen Power Training Series. As usual, it comes with several variations and you can use the ErgVideo ride designer to add more variety to your sessions.
Threshold Test HD
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A fully automated and simple way to determine your threshold power, now in an HD edition. We’ve implemented a standardized time-trial test which begins with a programmed ErgVideo-style warm-up. You calibrate your trainer, and then you do a 20- or 60-minute time-trial test to determine your threshold power. Cycling centers can test up to 24 riders at once! You ride with National Masters TT silver medalist Ron Amos of the Ride with Rendall Team on a Time trial course in beautiful Franco-Ontario.