Notes From Spin Class
// 4.11.07 // Filed under: Thriving
About 10 years ago, I taught Spinning (exercise class done on stationary bikes). Then I had a child and kinda dropped out of exercise classes, opting to do my own thing during my sporadic trips to the gym. But I missed the motivation, the group dynamic, the instructor to guide me and push me just a little harder, so I started taking classes again.
Tonight’s class was with an instructor I hadn’t tried before and am not likely to try again. This was the format of the class:
- Pedal seated for 30 seconds
- Pedal standing for 30 seconds
- Pedal seated for 30 seconds
- Pedal standing for 60 seconds
- Pedal seated for 30 seconds
- Pedal standing for 90 seconds
- Pedal seated for 30 seconds
- Pedal standing for 120 seconds
- Increase resistance and start over at the beginning
- Repeat. Again and again.
- End class
Boring. Somewhere in there he played a dance remix version of Another Brick in the Wall. I’m not fond of Pink Floyd as it is, but a techno-beat dance version was really more than I could bear.
When I was an instructor I did fun things like visualization of a ride through the forest, races, hill climbs, mountain bike simulations… I even got my class doing standing pedaling row by row to make “the wave.” Damn, those were the days.
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I wonder how folks can stand the torture. Exercise classes NEED to be fun, to compensate for the physical work. Otherwise, we would all jog ! (I tremble at the thought!)
Sounds like you need to take over! If you were thinking it was boring, other people must have been thinking the same thing.
I’ve never tried a Spinning class. The class you describe sounds challenging to a beginner, but not to you, an expert.
Good lord – that’s impressive, even it was boring. My schedule would be like:
Pedal for 30 seconds
Get off bike for water break
Pedal for 30 seconds
Leave and go out for pizza
Agree with Mom101, although it’s boring, it SOUNDS impressive.
Would you share how did your class go?
on top of all that, it seems to me that making a techno version of Another Brick in the Wall goes against what Pink Floyd was trying to say in the first place.
in the matter of fact guys i’ve never ever tried that spinning class , but i know some stuff about the subject anyway , hope u can support me with some good stuff i can self educate with