Where The Downward Spiral is structured, and methodical – you know what’s coming – Fight Club is scrappy, messy, and unpredictable. Like a real bike race, you’re working hard to stay with the leaders, while fending off attacks and doing your best to make the race by attacking as well. This is the only cycling workout video featuring officially licensed footage from the UCI 2009 Road World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland. You’ll be racing with – and against – Cancellara, Evans, Kolobnev, Cunego, Gilbert, Wiggins, Martin and more!

Workout Details

The Fight Club workout was designed to build power over longer durations than The Downward Spiral, while increasing leg-speed through 23 (!) unannounced ‘attacks’ that will challenge you to accelerate and then recover while still making a massive effort. And to make you wish you never heard of The Sufferfest. But we won’t take that personally. Here’s what you’ll get over the roughly 60 minutes:

• 5 minutes warm-up featuring video footage from a ride along the Yaara river in Melbourne, Australia from Ride By Shooting.
• Five ‘laps’ of racing, featuring footage from the UCI 2009 World Championship Time Trial and Road Race:
  • 1st lap:
    • 6:00 of tempo riding, with a few attacks to break up the field
    • 1:00 recovery
  • 2nd – 5th lap:
    • 4:00 time trial effort (with more ttacks!)
    • 2:30 climbing (with even more surprise attacks!)
    • 3:00 recovery (no attacks – we’re cruel, but not that cruel), featuring footage from Cyclefilm’s descent of the Col du Glandon
• 5 minute warm-down featuring some bicycle safety tips from, uh, the 1950s that you really should know when out in the modern world.

Although this workout is one you can repeat over and over as you learn more about your ability to maintain sustained efforts, there are a few alternative ways to ride it that will get you even more ‘replayability.’

Soundtrack

For you technos out there, this is the soundtrack from you. Another Sufferfest Studios hand-picked selection of tracks, we’ve assembled 10 slamming house, trance, r&b and dance tracks to keep you motivated and pounding yourself into the ground.

• Italo Surfing -Daniele ‘Bengi’ Benati
• Stand to Lose – Kyven
• Get Down Dirty – Dov Watermann
• Enigma (Remix) – MatFlawless
• Drunken Stars (Vox Mix) – AcquaFix
• Out of Control (Dejoint Remix) – DJ Mesta
• Give it All Away (Sultan Remix) – DJ Rap (Charissa Saverio)
• Superlove (Electro Mix) – Zentribe ft Linda Newmann
• Ashes & Lashes – Dub Mechanics
• Watch Yourself – Kyven
• In da Club – Danny de Shore Remix

Two options: Individual or Class & Group

• Individual: Going to watch the Fight Club alone at home or the gym on your iPod or iPhone? Then the Individual version is for you. (Note – these versions are not licensed for class or group use.)(File is approx 1.3gb (!) and in .mp4 format)
  
• Class & Group: Plan on using Fight Club in your next spinning class or group cycling session? Then purchase this version, which is licensed for group use. By purchasing the Class & Group version you’ll get (File is extremely large at approx 2 GB, so please ensure you have a good connection):
  1. The Individual version (which you can also use in class or group sessions)
  2. The Group & Class version which:
  • is higher-resolution for playing on large screens/beamers
  • is licensed for group/class use and which allows you to design your own workout using the Sufferfest footage. It has:
  • has fewer instructions (so you can design the workout as you like)
  • has no music (so you can play your own tunes)
  • has no recommended effort levels and no taunts (you can taunt the class yourself!)
  • comes with a PDF document which provides a blow-by-blow description of the workout, background on the races featured, and ideas on how to get the most out of your class during the workout. 

Resolution

Rendered at 540×360, Fight Club will look great on medium screens like laptops and small screens like iPhones and iPods. You can play it on large screens, of course, it just won’t look as sharp. The file size is large: 740mb. Be ready with a good connection and a little patience during the download..it’ll take some time. But it’s worth it.