Personal Training with Alejandro Figueroa

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The world makes sense when I’m on a bicycle and it’s the bicycle that saved my life. Whether it’s on a spin bike teaching a class at RVC or on a mountain bike for a race, I pedal for my life. I’ve always been an avid cyclist. As a child, my family biked for fun, fitness and travel. In college, I learned to mountain bike with friends and graduated to participate in charity road rides in my 20s. This would seem like the obvious background of a 40-something Spin Instructor who fills her free time racing but the path is never as linear as it seems. In my 30s, I took the longest, most circuitous route through alcoholism, bankruptcy and debilitating injury to get to where I am now. I spent several years in the grips of addiction where I eventually lost everything but a bicycle and my life. The promise of what that bike could provide was the only thing that kept it in my possession as I fought to free myself from alcohol, strengthen a degenerating spine and find relief from crushing debt but I wasn't sure I would make it to ride a bike again. In 2016, I found recovery in the Upper Valley and could breathe for what felt like the first time. The question was no longer IF I would live but HOW? And HOW DO YOU start living AGAIN the middle of your life when you've got nothing but a bike? You go for a ride. You keep going for rides. You pedal like your life depends on it. In those rides, I found the freedom that I fought for. The rides got longer and lead to jobs, to health, to confidence and a life I’m worthy of. When I put my feet on the pedals, I remember where I came from and I know where I can go and GO, I do. At an age considered "over the hill" I started going over hills, lots of them, as fast as I could and found that I was pretty good at it. I'll be 43 at the end of the biggest race of my life; a 24-hour mountain bike race at the base of Mount Washington...solo. The spin instructor in me knew that I would need help and I've asked RVC to sponsor me to bike my best life ever. I invite you to follow along as I work with RVC Personal Trainer Alex Figueroa to become race ready and prove that life starts when you want to ride it.

The reps you least thought could be done, once completed are the reps that affect the greatest change. Get uncomfortable.