Today\u00a0I got in a spin class at lunch for the first time in a long time.\u00a0\u00a0 I had forgotten how much of a beat down you can give yourself in just an hour.\u00a0 I say “you can give” because you set the tension on the bike throughout the workout.\u00a0\u00a0 This allows both beginners and the ultra-fit types to get equally beat down in the same session.\u00a0\u00a0Any who,\u00a0 It was a good workout, but the reason for the post is that my instructor for this class was really good at keeping everybody motivated and he had a bunch of motivational one-liners.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’m sure that much of them were not his original creations, but it was a good compilation.\u00a0 Some were cool and\u00a0 some were corny but they did help to keep everyone spinning.<\/p>\n
The more interesting ones were:<\/p>\n
Find your comfort zone…and get out of it!<\/strong><\/p>\n I don’t want much out of life…Just ALL of it!<\/strong><\/p>\n Ride for the Hellth of It!<\/strong><\/p>\n If you don’t act tired….You won’t be tired!<\/strong><\/p>\n Find out what you can’t do!<\/strong><\/p>\n That was the warm up<\/strong> (He said that 50 minutes into the 1 hour class when many of us drenched with sweat)\u00a0<\/p>\n Do spin classes help with cycling?<\/font><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Personally it is not so much a “form” thing as a cardio thing for me.\u00a0\u00a0On the cardio front they are really good.\u00a0 \u00a0The guy teaching today had us out of the saddle for 85% of the hour so there is certainly some good training of your legs for out of the saddle efforts.\u00a0\u00a0 I was certainly not sitting at my desk surfing the Internet during lunch which was a good thing.<\/p>\n \u00a0-Bill<\/p>\n