The Details: Angels

Individual Use - $11.99Group & Class Use - $24.99

If you were eating lunch, 8 minutes wouldn’t seem like a lot of time. If you on a beach, it would be cruel to only be there 8 minutes. If you were doing one of the 8 minute climbs in Angels, you’d swear to every god you can think of that it’s never going to end, that time has slowed down dramatically and that you’d rather chop your legs off than go through another second of that 8 minute eternity.  We waited a while to create a Sufferfest dedicated to climbing because we didn’t have the perfect blend of workout, footage and music. But we’ve finally created. If you want climbing and the kind of agony that makes you really, really, really fast…..you’ve got it. What other cycling workout video/DVD anywhere pits you against 3x Tour de France Winner Alberto Contador (and giro winner, and Vuelta winner, and and), puts you in a break with Luis Leon Sanchez or asks you to stay with Andy Schleck when he makes his winning move in the 2009 Liege-Bastogne-Liege?

The Workout

You want details? Here they are. This is what Angels delivers in just slightly over 60 minutes:

  • 6:30 warm-up, featuring footage from track racing in San Diego
  • 10:00 of over/under intervals, with 1:00 just above your threshold, and 1:00 just below threshold, repeated 5x. Featuring footage from the 2009 Paris-Nice when Alberto Contador got, gasp, dropped by just about everyone!
  • 3:00 rest, featuring some beautiful descending footage from cyclefilm.com, effort level 4/10.
  • 8:00 climbing, while you try to stay with Andy Schleck in the 2009 Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Effort level starts at about 7/10, attacks take you up near 9/10, until setting down to 7/10 for most of the rest.
  • 4:00 rest with more descending, effort level 4/10.
  • 8:00 climbing, with a gradually increasing pace up the famous Col d’Eze in the 2010 Paris-Nice, featuring Vockler, Contador, Sanchez…yeah, all the big boys. You do the first two minutes at 6/10, next two at 7/10, next two at 8/10 and the last two at 8.5/10. There are a few accelerations in the group that ask you to increase cadence without increasing effort….which can be a little tricky, as you’ll find out.
  • 4:00 rest with more descending, effort 4/10.
  • 8:00 climbing, with the freaking mother of all climbs: Alpe d’Huez…can you stay with Contador in the 2010 Dauphine-Libere? You start the climb bridging up to the break with an effort level of 8/10. Then you pretty much do 8/10 the whole way up. Oh, wait, I forgot about the bajillion attacks that push you so far into the red that you’d swear your eyes are bleeding.
  • 4:00 warm down featuring a sort of motley arrangement of things to keep you entertained. Including the first Sufferfest xtranormal video. Oh boy.

Group Version

For those of you that find suffering alone to be….lonely….and prefer to suffer in the presence of others, the Group version of Angels is for you. You can use it in your team workouts, spin classes, whatever. The file (a whopping 3.6 GB of misery) includes three files:

  • The full individual version of Angels, which you can play in group settings with this license
  • An ‘instructor’ version that doesn’t have music (but does have the sound cues) or instructions, so you can lead the class as you wish, with music of your own choosing
  • A PDF with a breakdown of the workout, timings, recommended efforts and some details about the featured races.

The Music

We’re really, really pleased with the soundtrack for Angels. Some folks have said it’s our finest collection yet. You can’t imagine how much music we listened to in order to find these tracks. It opens up with a bit of funkish, then into alt-rock, then a bit of dance, more alt-rock and some techno. Something for anyone who likes great music. We hope you’ll check out some of the artists – they’ve got more great tracks where these came from.

HEY, Pay attention to these three points….

  • File size is 1.6GB as a .zip file. You’ll have to click on it to extract the .mp4 file when you’ve downloaded.
  • Resolution is in the iTunes movie ‘large’ format.
  • To watch on iphone/ipod you’ll have to convert it to ‘medium’ format.

The inside story behind the making of angels.

Individual Use - $11.99Group & Class Use - $24.99

 

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