Coordination of bike workouts and strength workouts:
I will try to keep this concise and avoid confusion, but let me first provide some background on the decision-making process around coordinating how we schedule bike and strength workouts.
One of the unfortunate truisms in life is when you say "yes" to one thing, you usually have to say "no" to something else.
Along these lines, although it is possible to offer back-to-back strength and bike workouts so you have the convenience of coming to the studio fewer days per week, it is also the case that if you say "yes" to a hard-effort strength workout, then you are simultaneously saying "no" to a subsequent hard-effort bike workout.
Knowing this, we have a few options:
i) We offer back-to-back srength and bike workouts for your scheduling convenience, but limit the strength workouts to shorter "express" sessions (~30 min) that primarily focus on injury prevention and core strength, and do not max out your legs.
ii) We DO offer full (~60 min), hard-effort strength workouts prior to your bike workout, but only on days where the bike effort is easier (like base or tempo rides). On some levels this sounds like a good solution, but it is important to recognize that this then creates some unwelcome limits on the types of bike workouts we offer, especially because I expect that many people prefer to do their "easy" bike workouts at home or on their own anyway. A key benefit of the group studio ride environment is that is helps you push hard for your higher intensity sessions and intervals, and this is why we focus on offering those.
iii) We do NOT offer or encourage people to do back-to-back hard-effort strength and bike workouts. Clients would come in on separate days (or separate times of day; e.g. a morning strength and evening bike could be okay) for these two types of workouts. This would not be as convenient in terms of scheduling, but would enable clients to get the full benefit of each type of workout.