spin classes wtf?

[awomaninsane]

I absolutely love spinning and always work really hard. Yes, the music is loud and the disco lights are blaring but it is a fantastic work out.

 

[Dave 123]

I love a spin class. Depends on the instructor, the group and the music.
We have 80's cheese., a great laugh and PLF.
I also ride a bicycle on the road, a lot.

 

[Jenkins]

And how many of the participants drive to the spin classes???

 

[TVC]

I cycle because it helps my mental health as well as my physical health. Not sure if spin classes would have the same effect.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

And how many of the participants drive to the spin classes???

Dear Points of View,

I am an old person...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I cycle because it helps my mental health as well as my physical health. Not sure if spin classes would have the same effect.

It might help more.

 

[TVC]

It might help more.

I'm not sure you've met my brain, but it prefers open fields, ickle baa lambs and silence to techno, bright lights and being shouted at by some gym bunny.

 

[Jenkins]

Dear Points of View,

I am an old person...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm not sure you've met my brain, but it prefers open fields, ickle baa lambs and silence to techno, bright lights and being shouted at by some gym bunny.

You seem to have made your mind up on spin classes as being all the same

 

[Yellow Fang]

Spinning is bloody hard. I usually left a big pool of sweat on the floor, because I'm proper hardcore, me.

 

[TVC]

You seem to have made your mind up on spin classes as being all the same

Nope, on gyms in general. I run on towpaths, I cycle on country roads and I walk up heather clad hillsides. Gyms are not for me. The idea of sweating for an hour without a proper view or a decent amount of fresh air and quiet at the end of it doesn't appeal.

 

[Cathryn]

I also much prefer being outside in the fresh air but sometimes a girl doesn't have time for that but she does have time for an hour of crazy pedaling, sweating buckets and coming out buzzing with endorphins! There's a time and a place for all of it.

 

[Brandane]

I suppose it depends on whether the fitness aspect of cycling is an important factor - or not. For me it is not; but a useful bi-product. I don't really care how fast/slow I ride my bike, as long as I ride it.
I am with @The Velvet Curtain on this, in that I cycle more for the scenery and fresh air than anything else, so speed isn't important. At my age I'm never going to become particularly fast anyway!

 

[vernon]

And how many of the participants drive to the spin classes???

Usually the ones who don't own bikes.

 

[screenman]

I know of two people who do spin classes but do not on bikes.

I have never done one so would not knock them.