Your team. The room.
The first one is on us.
Thirteen bikes, your people, the room closed to everyone else. For hockey clubs it is Morning Skate, a game day preparation ritual that has the roster composed before the bus leaves. For companies it is a private ride for the whole team, and the first one is free. Not a spin class. Not conditioning. A room that gets a group breathing and climbing to one rhythm.
Twenty people moving to one beat stop thinking as individuals. That is the whole idea, and it is why the first ride costs nothing.
01 · Morning Skate, for hockey clubs
Game day mornings, handled before the puck drops.
Every game day the roster comes to the studio in two groups, forwards then defence and goalies. Phones away. One minute of silence. A 45 to 50 minute ride built for readiness, not fatigue: breathing, rhythm, a message the coaching staff chose that morning. Ten minutes of stretching and a closing word. Players leave to eat, hydrate and rest, and walk into the dressing room already prepared.
Why the bike
Game day preparation is different from conditioning. The bike raises heart rate, circulation and muscle activation with no repeated impact on knees, hips and ankles hours before a contact game. Every player rides an identical bike and chooses his own resistance. There are no starters and no fourth liners in the room, only preparation.
What the coaching staff gets
A short call before every session: who needs confidence, who needs calm, what message to carry into the arena. A written observation sheet after: energy, focus, composure, communication, who stood out, who needs a follow up. A weekly brief that keeps every message aligned with the bench. Progress reports at camp, mid season and season end. Nothing in the room contradicts the staff. Everything in it reinforces what they already built.
Any team, anywhere
Nanaimo first, then wherever there is a team: junior, rep, senior, in Canada or across the border. Away games run the identical morning before the bus, so the destination changes and the preparation does not.
A 2021 meta analysis of 800 athletes across 15 sports found pre performance routines improved performance with a moderate to large effect, and the effect held under pressure (Rupprecht, Tran and Gröpel, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021).
- Both sessions, the coach call, the observation sheetIncluded
- Up to 26 riders, home and away, playoffsSame rate
- The first four game daysFree if the staff does not continue
For comparison: private group rides at Vancouver boutique studios run 35 to 40 a rider for groups over 20, with no coaching relationship and no reporting. Mental performance consultants in Canada average 141 an hour, with no physical activation at all.
02 · Private rides, for companies and groups
Bring your team. The first ride is free.
Thirteen bikes, your people, a coach, and the room closed to everyone else for the hour. A talk pace ride nobody has to be good at, or a 3 if your team wants to be pushed. The first twenty businesses in Nanaimo ride free. After that, the room is quoted per ride, by email, the same week.
It works for the reason Morning Skate works. People who move and breathe to one rhythm trust each other more afterward. Nobody is evaluated. Nobody is watched. The coach knows every name by the first climb, and the hour ends with coffee on the couch.
Every founding member also gets the room once a year: a private ride for them and twelve people. Your birthday, your team, your people.
03 · Book
Tell us about the team.
A club, a company, a group of friends. How many, when, and what you want from the hour. You hear back within two days with dates.