Spin Routine of the Week #002: Halloween Candy Craze

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With Halloween around the corner, here’s a 60-minute Halloween spin routine that’ll give your participants that sugar high—sans sugar. The theme is candy, so every song has a tie to sweets, sugar, or candy. Enjoy!

Reminder: I like to teach my spinning classes in a series of exercises that we do twice or three times through. I pick a couple exercises to make up the series, and we stick to it throughout the class. That way, participants know what to expect, so they can go big when they’re supposed to and not hold back for fear of another interval around the corner.

The Series

This Halloween spin routine series is a four song climb in and out of the saddle. Between series, I threw in an extra surprise sprints song to give my fast feet riders some love.

1. Song 1: Moderate intensity, adding resistance periodically but staying within that moderate range. During the chorus, increase the pace to find a hard intensity, but DO NOT change the resistance. By the end of this song, riders should be approaching that hard intensity through heavy resistance and moderate pace. Their bodies should want to stand in order to find some relief from the resistance.
2. Song 2: Start with the resistance from the song prior. Alternate between 30 seconds seated at hard intensity and 30 seconds standing at moderate intensity.
3. Song 3: Start with the resistance from the song prior. Stay seated and slow the pace in order to take on heavier resistance at a hard intensity. Continue to add heavier resistance without breaking the pace. At the chorus, stand for moderate intensity.
4. Song 4: Start with resistance from song prior. Climb from hard intensity at the beginning to breathless intensity at the end. Pace stays the same, so riders can adjust their resistance and either sit or stand as they continue to increase intensity.

We do this series three times through. In between each series, I threw in a sprint song. I call it “surprise sprints”, because I’ll surprise the class by throwing out a random number for the time duration of the sprint itself. For example, surprise (!) sprint for 30 seconds, go! Then, we’d rest for 30 and I’d call out another time duration, like 25 seconds until the song ends.

The Playlist

Series Song / Workout	Song
Warm-up	Chocolate, Big Boi feat. Troze
Song 1: Moderate to hard intensity through incr. resistance.	Honey, I’m Good, Andy Grammer
Song 2: 30 seconds seated hard intensity / 30 seconds standing moderate intensity	Candyman, Christina Aguilera
Song 3: Hard intensity. At chorus, stand for moderate intensity.	Sweet Nothing, Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch
Song 4: Climb. Start at hard intensity, finish breathless.	Honey, I’m Home, Shania Twain
Surprise Sprints	Sweetness, Jimmy Eat World
Song 1: Moderate to hard intensity through incr. resistance.	Sweet But Psycho, Ava Max
Song 2: 30 seconds seated hard intensity / 30 seconds standing moderate intensity	I Want Candy, Aaron Carter
Song 3: Hard intensity. At chorus, stand for moderate intensity.	Sugar, We’re Goin Down, Fall Out Boy
Song 4: Climb. Start at hard intensity, finish breathless.	Cherry Pie, Warrant
Surprise Sprints	Birthday Cake, Rihanna
Song 1: Moderate to hard intensity through incr. resistance.	I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch), Four Tops
Song 2: 30 seconds seated hard intensity / 30 seconds standing moderate intensity	Tootsie Roll, 69 Boyz
Song 3: Hard intensity. At chorus, stand for moderate intensity.	Sucker, Jonas Brothers
Song 4: Climb. Start at hard intensity, finish breathless.	Pour Some Sugar On Me, Def Leppard
Cool Down	Sweet Caroline, Neil Diamond

Want to hear the Halloween spin routine songs and/or check out more candy-themed songs? I’ve added all these songs and more to my Spotify playlist here.

Catch ya next week!

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