Optimize returns from group cycling in the studio, and personal and team training on the cardio floor. Plus a new colorful era for your members‘ individual training.

Making Fitness more colorful

Coach By Color® standardizes and optimizes a user’s indoor cycling training experience either in a group, personal or cardio floor setting allowing them to manage and maximize the results from whichever format they choose for their training. ICG® is the only provider on the market to combine the individual FTP value (continuous power threshold in watts) with five colored training zones with the Coach By Color® training system. To Coach By Color® is to use one of the world‘s most intuitive and effective forms of communication to improve the exerciser experience.

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Active Recovery

% FTP: <55%
% MAX HR: <60%
RPE: Very Light
TIME IN ZONE: Infinity

Endurance

% FTP: 56-75%
% MAX HR: 61-70%
RPE: Light
TIME IN ZONE: 3hrs - >8hrs

Tempo

% FTP: 76-95%
% MAX HR: 71-85%
RPE: Moderate
TIME IN ZONE: 3 - 8hrs

Lactate Threshold

% FTP: 91-105%
% MAX HR: 81-90%
RPE: Hard
TIME IN ZONE: 10-60min

Anaerobic Capacity

% FTP: >105-150%
% MAX HR: >90-100%
RPE: Maximal
TIME IN ZONE: 1 - 8min

Bring the Heat

Coach by Color® offers the most intuitive, accurate and engaging coaching methodology in the fitness industry which combines a specialist zone feature set called ‘Heat zones’.

The Heat zones indicate working ranges that offer the greatest health and fitness benefits across the five Coach by Color® zones. Motivational visual rewards (Ignite, Heat, On-fire & Burn) will appear on the Wattrate® TFT Computer 2.0 when working within these specific percentage ranges.

Ignite

% FTP: 67-75%
% MAX HR: 66-70%
RPE: Light/Moderate

Heat

% FTP: 85-95%
% MAX HR: 78-85%
RPE: Moderate/Hard

On-Fire

% FTP: 121-150%
% MAX HR: 92-94%
RPE: Hard/Maximal
TIME IN ZONE: 1 - 5min

Burn

% FTP: >150%
% MAX HR: 95-100%
RPE: Maximal
TIME IN ZONE: 5 - 10secs

FOR GROUP CYCLING CLASSES

BOOSTING NEW MEMBER ACQUISITION AND RETENTION

The Coach By Color® power program relies on color‘s natural stimulating properties to accurately coach a user‘s effort during a workout. It elicits the right psychological and physiological responses to encourage greater effort. It fosters connections among members and enhances instructor communication, and therefore increases social interaction while maximizing results. These benefits boost new member aquisition and retention. Coach By Color® is a very important part of the physical and digital ICG® products and is the link to the Team ICG® services. Coach By Color® makes Fitness more colorful!

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For personal & team training

RESULTS ORIENTATED POWER-BASED COACHING

Coach By Color® for personal and team training on the cardio floor or in the studio puts the power-based training in the hands of personal trainers and gym instructors in a practical, colorful way adding a new dimension to coaching and member experience. The foundation behind is High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) incorporating strength, speed and endurance athletic protocols. HIIT’s advanced form of interval training is results-orientated and reduces session time to maximize a facility’s opportunity to train more members, more of the time with optimal success.