Strength Ride  The lowdown: Uses high resistance and a slower cadence, you hover between aerobic and anaerobic zones, climbing some challenging mountains as you go. The payoff: A great workout for toning your legs (without building muscle size) and developing your mental and cardiovascular strength. Intensity: 65% - 92% HRmax

Endurance Ride  The lowdown: This Energy Zone(TM) includes a variety of aerobic profiles. The payoff: This ride boosts your fat metabolism, increases your base fitness level, and lowers your resting heart rate. Intensity: 65% - 80% HRmax

Aerobic Interval Ride  The lowdown: Still aerobic training but pushing it to the threshold. The payoff: This heart rate zone will test the entire range of your aerobic capacity and increase efficiency when training at highest intensities. Intensity: 65% - 80% HRmax

Interval Ride  The lowdown: A versatile workout throughout the whole spectrum of intensities, these rides alternate bursts of speed and power with recovery. The payoff: You'll increase your aerobic and anaerobic capacity, which will lead to bolstered stamina. Intensity: 65% - 92% HRmax

Race Day Ride  The lowdown: A perfect ride to push your limits and test yourself. This is a time to challenge your body and celebrate your strength. The payoff: Its time to measure your progression and development from the previous training. With the outcome, you can tailor your future training to get the best results to suit your goals. Intensity: 80% - 92% HRmax

Recovery Ride  The lowdown: Without sufficient active rest, your body can't get stronger, so mixing it up with your high intesity rides gives better results. The payoff: Recovery Rides promote healing and circulate oxygen to tired muscles, ligaments and tendons. Ride into better fitness and faster recovery. Intensity: 50% - 65% HRmax

H2 Ride to the Beat   The lowdown: At H2 you decide. Following an overwhelmingly positive response from our members to H2 Ride and our Yin and Yang classes we have launched H2 Ride to the Beat.  These classes are themed and focus on a mix of all the latest tunes, classic tunes and a few surprise mixes keeping your classes fresh and fun. Get involved! Our DJs take requests. For bespoke individual or group training for your event or fitness please email doyou@h2bikerun.co.uk and we can create a class for you.