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Started spinning 2 weeks ago is anyone else into it?.It`s a bloody good workout if you put the effort in
Been doing it professionally for over 25 years. 😀
meatspin?
Do it on every hill.
Thank the Lord for the granny ring. 😀
I enjoy spinning for pike and perch. Walking up and down the riverbank is a good workout.
I only ever spin on the one's and two's.
Got a spin bike at home - its a good solid ex gym one. Use it when its too nasty out or cant fit a ride in. Just 30mins interval training and I'm kin knackered. Very good work uot, I can see it bit a lot better with a trainer/class.
A few of us have been doing classes as we find it easier to get motivated rather than use the turbo or go out when its really shite ,We just thought we would give it a go and see if we gained from it
I know about a dozen people do it.. 11 of them girls and a fat single bloke looking for a girl.
Yup- does no harm to do supplement proper biking in the dark months
Quality of the sessions really depends on the instructor
At my gym there are 3 folk "trained"
One does a proper intervals style & sprints
One does loads of silly position changes and fake hills
And the other does daft stuff like taking the seat off
Sprinting and stopping - she's pish !!
As a cyclist a good hill set and done random sprints
Work for me
Ymmv
our local sports centre seems to have taken delivery of about 20 livestrong spinners the other day
wonder how much of a markdown 😉
Been doing it for a few years, our instructor is a cat 1 roadie so gives us a good workout! 🙂
You could always buy a lumenator light and some wet weather gear - I'd like to bet you'd get more from that than sitting at the back of a class watching girls arses going up and down...oh, hang on...
Did my first session tonight. Found it quite boring tbh.
Depends on the bikes and instructor, the bikes at my old (council run £18/month (inc the pool!) gym were proper fixed gear bikes with stupidly heavy flywheels and good resistance mechanisms. The instructors were sadists and I got very good at sprinting on group rides and managed a 100mile sportive with not much more training than spinning.
The new poncey gym (£70/month inc 6 pools and 3 saunas!) has freewheels, flywheels too small, and the resistance is done with friction and V-brakes/carpet pads. The instructors tailor it to ladies that lunch and fat blokes. Way too much "wobble the bars, lean to the side" crap.
Ride fixed. Find a hill. Ride up, ride down. Repeat...
Where, assuming in SSET, are you spinning Edric? Is Katy your instructor?