spinning is something i consider only hard core crazy fitness freaks, i mean buffs, get into. i've taken it up once a week strictly because i know it's good for me. i seriously, seriously, seriously, doubt i'll ever like it.
it's just so god damned HARD! and last night kicked my ass. it felt like the room was hotter than normal. my legs burned. my lungs burned. we did a series of anaerobic intervals, hill intervals, then a retarded sprint at the end. my legs were toast. honestly, i was spent 45 minutes into class. the last 15 minutes...i have no idea how i kept my legs moving.
mentally, spinning is tough. it takes everything i have to not let my legs shut down. i swear sometimes i feel like my legs cannot POSSIBLY push or pull that stupid little pedal anymore. sometimes i feel like my lungs cannot POSSIBLY heave more oxygen into my system. but somehow, they do.
what i get from spinning is enduring an hour of pure torture. getting used to the exertion, the pain and ultimately the exhaustion.
it makes running feel like a piece of cake, sometimes.
when i got home, i poured myself a bowl of cherries, i popped in kelly clarkson's new cd (it effing rocks!), and sat in an ice bath for 10 minutes. today is a rest day, but i think i might go to yoga anyway. it's bendy power poses day!
side note: after all the drama that goes into the beginning of class, with "the list" and 3 people getting denied a bike, the chick in front of me had the audacity to take it easy! i swear she was gone for at least 10 minutes of the class and when she was on her bike she was pedalling like she was on a sunday morning jaunt through the park. AND she left early! and this was the same chick who last week told MH she would divorce him for not signing up for class right.
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I have been wanting to try spinning classes...maybe not! :-)
i would never EVER do a spin class. i've seen people doing it and it looks WAY TOO HARD!!a ;o)
Is spinning harder than just riding your road bike outside?
Gotta love the ice bath :-)
I feel just the opposite-- I'd rather take a killer spin class than run 3 miles any day of the week! But I'm a bike person. But yeah, spinning is hard because your legs never stop turning, even on "downhills." I was in spin class yesterday, havent been to one since the outdoor season started and this was endurance-- 75 minutes!!! I was right there with you, sucking wind. At least the music was good. It double sucks if the music sucks too.
Oh, and the chick in front of you, the next time she leaves I suggest you remove and hide her seat.
Spinning is tough, but I find the group presence and the music to help get me through it. Of course, I haven't gone in forever, so I can't really talk.
...and strangely enough, I'm so intrigued. I'm going to try spinning in the fall — to supplement my inability to ride my bike in not-perfect conditions.
But, man, do I admire your toughness. That sounds like one hell of a workout! I can imagine that running is a bit of a cakewalk after that.
Aren't cherries the best summer food? I think I should go find some right now...
Great job at spinning - an hour on a spin bike is probably equivalent to an hour long tempo run minus the joint pounding.
I haven't been to a spin class in years, but I hated it when I did go. Sweating in a room, usually in the dark, on a bike that is not going anywhere always drove me insane.
Have a good time at yoga.
That spinning is what's making you one tough cookie.
Thanks for giving me the heads up on the reasons NEVER to take a spin class. Eeeeeekkkk, sounds too hard for a slacker like me LOL
Wow! I always thought about taking a spinning class (I watch the people in the classroom while I work out at the Y). Doesn't sound too pleasant!
Ahhh.. I HEART SPIN! And I miss it so much since I have been out of school! :)
Great job, I tried it a few years ago and its tough all right. Great work out but tough. No gain without pain right.
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