[emmaintheuk]

I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been doing this for about a month, and I’ve done all kinds of different exercise classes. All the talking takes you out of your zone and makes each class feel like a miserable eternity. And then the faux encouragement really starts to get on my nerves. I’d love some recommendations about instructors who talk less.

CDE likes to (as she says) 'get out of the way'. She has reflection rides where she lets minutes go by without talking. She also has a classical music ride where she says relatively little. I agree, I would love it if you could go five minutes without the instructor talking, especially on the long rides. Sometimes I just turn the sound off altogether.