Santiago Cycling Development & Torture Clinics

SANTIAGO CYCLING ACADEMY
CYCLING DEVELOPMENT & TORTURE CLINICS

OVERVIEW

If you are interested in improving your physical fitness, muscular strength and endurance, and cardiovascular function, or wish to enhance your cycling skills and fitness (or want to get involved with an enthusiastic cycling group), then read on.
We have what you need!
Welcome to Robert Kahler’s CYCLING DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING CLINICS. These popular Training Clinics, which have been run since 1983, are a fun and fast way to develop your fitness - whether for cycling or any other activity. These exciting and fast paced classes challenge you, both mentally and physically, to improve your physical conditioning and mental toughness. Everyone with the desire can improve dramatically in as little as one 8 week session. Depending on your starting point, it is highly possible for you to make up to a 25 percent improvement in your aerobic function while losing a few pounds (and percentage points) of fat in the process. All this in a safe, structured, and well guided high energy environment.

The CYCLING CLINICS were developed in 1983 by Robert Kahler, upon his return from a National Team coaching appointment at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. With a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology and ten years of cycling experience to his credit at the time, Robert put together what has become the Nation’s most comprehensive and successful indoor cycling training program. Now, over twenty years later, the Clinics have grown enormously in popularity and reputation for being "the place to be" for the ultimate in personally planned, highly motivated, success driven cycling training programs.

In order to quantify the results of each participant over the 8-9 weeks, a sub-maximal VO2 (oxygen consumption) test and a body fat skinfold test are performed at the beginning and end of each cycling Clinic. These tests results, shown on a computerized results form, are given to the Clinic members and explained so that each person is able to understand as well as assess their own fitness and body fat level (not to mention their improvement by the end of the Clinic). For those who are willing to work hard - the improvement can be dramatic!

Of the three Clinics run every year, the October / November Classes (Torture Prelude Cycling Clinic) and the January/February Classes (The Torture Clinic) are both run on Tuesday and Thursday evenings with two separate class times each night. The Speed/Power Clinic, in the Springtime, runs either one and/or two evenings per week. During the classes, each participant utilizes his or her own bicycle in conjunction with the equipment provided, which helps the riders work on the varied skill, endurance and power development aspects of their cycling or other sport. The result of all of this shows up in a stronger, leaner, and tougher athlete, who is now more willing and able to perform for longer periods of time at a higher level and with more confidence than ever before.
Be a part of it!!
Give us a call at (714) 544-6091!!

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TORTURE PRELUDE CYCLING CLINIC

8 Weeks
Tuesday and Thursday Evenings
October 6th through December 1st, 2009
5:25 or 7:05 P.M. Classes
Sign-ups begin August 1, 2009
Fee: $319 with a $10 Discount for Cash or Check

PURPOSE:

           1)  To fortify each participant with the knowledge and understanding of aerobic cycling training.

           2)  To give each participant practical experience in a heart-rate based training program.

           3)  To develop the mental and physical abilities to be able to effectively participate in an intensity-based training program.

           4)  To develop leg strength and power, aerobic power, cardio-respiratory fitness and the ability to enhance one's metabolism and fat burning capabilities.

           5)  To gain confidence, mental toughness, and physical endurance.

           6)  To discover the fun and exhilaration of group fitness training.

           7)  To pre-test and post-test your body fat percentage and oxygen uptake capacity, and graphically show your improvement.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

           1)  How to operate the Monark bicycle ergometer.

           2)  How to effectively utilize the wind trainer.

           3)  How to balance-up with your bicycle on the rollers (optional).

           4)  How to calculate your effort into quantifiable results in order to keep track of your progress.

           5)  How to spin the pedals to develop pedaling efficiency.

           6)  How to work up to a medium and/or high aerobic training zone.

           7)  How to develop a progressive resistive cycling training program.

           8)  How to push through your perceived fatigue barrier to enjoy greater levels of cycling fitness and intensity.

           9)  How to improve your nutrition to enhance your performance.

Look or SPD Compatible shoes are required. A Heart Rate Monitor is absolutely necessary and required for this class.

Space is limited to 100 participants -- and these Clinics always fill!

Be a part of it!!
Give us a call at (714) 544-6091!!
Download Torture Prelude Clinic Application, Liability Release, and Vital Information Using Adobe Acrobat Reader

Download Torture Prelude Clinic Medical Clearance Using Adobe Acrobat Reader

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Print the Application, fill it out, and drop it in the mail with your check to:
Robert Kahler
Santiago Cycling
115 N. Prospect
Tustin, CA 92780
Give us a call at (714) 544-6091!!

After the Torture Prelude Clinic, test yourself on the Breathless Agony,
the Toughest Century in Southern California!!

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THE TORTURE CLINIC
The Most Popular and Comprehensive Early Season Cycling Program Ever Developed!

9 Weeks
Tuesday and Thursday Evenings
January 5th through March 9th, 2010
That's 9 Weeks of CYCLING ECSTASY!!
5:20 or 7:15 P.M. Classes
Sign-ups begin November 11th -- Sign up early
Medical Clearance Form is required for all new clinic members over the age of 35
Fee: $419 with a $19 Discount for Cash or Check
Gift Certificates Available - "Give the 'Gift of Fitness" to your cyclist this Christmas

Train with cycling's renowned Trainer / Physiologist, Robert Kahler

This 9 week super-concentrated, pre-season program is the ultimate in high energy, intensity based cycling for the fitness and improvement conscious cyclist.

This indoor cycling training program is designed to "amp" your cardiovascular fitness, reduce your body fat, and improve your cycling skills. Cycling class sessions are over two hours in length, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Sessions are comprised of stretching and floor exercises each night plus two cycling exercise sessions and an informative weekly lecture,

The infamous Torture Clinic is guaranteed to challenge you, both mentally and physically, to bring out the best efforts you have to give, thereby gaining more improvement than you ever thought possible in a very short time. Through our included pre- and post-physiological testing sessions, we can assure you of seeing and feeling - first hand - greater fitness gains than you have ever experienced before.

Enhance your muscle and lung power and your cardio-respiratory function
Drastically improve your cycling performance
Lose unwanted body fat through nutrition, education and comprehensive exercise sessions, while revitaling your metabolism
Become physically and mentally tough! It's rewarding and GREAT FUN!

Affectionately named by our repeat offenders, The Torture Clinic is the second and longest class in the Cycling Academy Training Clinic series.

See the Torture Prelude Clinic to review the Purpose and What You Will Learn. Like the Prelude Clinic, roller riding is optional for The Torture Clinic. Look or SPD Compatible shoes are required.

Space is limited.
Sign up early to guarantee your space and desired class time.
The Torture Clinic is limited to 100 participants.
This class always fills to capacity!
"You Snooze - You Lose!!"

Be a part of it!!
Allow THE BOSSMAN to take you to the next level!
Give us a call at (714) 544-6091!!
Download Torture Clinic Application, Liability Release, and Medical Clearance Using Adobe Acrobat Reader

Download Acrobat Reader From Adobe's Website

Print the Application, fill it out, and drop it in the mail with your check to:
Robert Kahler
Santiago Cycling
115 N. Prospect
Tustin, CA 92780
Give us a call at (714) 544-6091!!

After the Torture Clinic, test yourself on the Breathless Agony,
the Toughest Century in Southern California!!

You never know who you'll meet at the Torture Clinic!!

You never know who you'll meet at the Torture Clinic!!

IT'S A SCREAM!!

The 2010 TORTURE CLINIC is now signing up.
Be fitter, rider faster, stronger and more powerful.
Learn to ride with more skill, control, comfort and confidence.
Improve your speed, spin, skill, recovery and learn to climb like a mountain goat!!
Get tough and tenacious - both physically and mentally.
Get fast and strong.
Thousands of Torture Clinic graduates can't be wrong!
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