Comment from Spin instructor

[cailin maith]

Abuse

All the spin instructors I’ve ever seen are ex army sergeant majors who were too thick to get a real sports qualification and like to sit on a bike screaming at people. If they did have any formal training they wouldn't make stupid remarks about somebody's form on the second similar training in two days.

Same here - it looks horrible and scary. I don't like it.

[Moscow Mule]

Until she sits on the red instructor's bike and then mutates into an officer of ze gestapo.

This is entirely possible. You've got to watch the meek ones...

[chef]

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What is it? Spinning is an aerobic exercise that takes place on a specially designed stationary bicycle called (obviously enough) a spinning bike. As you pedal, motivating music plays and the instructor talks you through a visualization of an outdoor cycling workout: "You're going up a long hill now, you can't see the top yet.…" During the class you vary your pace -- sometimes pedaling as fast as you can, other times cranking up the tension and pedaling slowly from a standing position. This helps you to focus inwardly and work on your mind as well as your body.

Why we love it: Spinning burns serious calories (about 450 in 45 minutes) and offers an awesome aerobic workout that makes your heart pump fast. It also tones your quadriceps (front thigh muscles) and outer thigh muscles like nobody's business! Because you stay in one place with the same basic movement throughout, Spinning doesn't involve a lot of coordination; it's easier to concentrate on your form than in other types of aerobic classes. And although you follow the general instructions of the spinning teacher, you are in control when it comes to your pace. You can finish a spin class, regardless of your fitness level, simply by adjusting your pace or the tension knob on the bike.

what a crock of sh!t, get outdoors man and see some of the real world

[Mich the Tester]

You can finish a spin class, regardless of your fitness level, simply by adjusting your pace or the tension knob on the bike.

Is that what you call the instructor?

[doodab]

Get a bike and a pulse meter and learn how to use it.

You will do 600 calories / hour and you'll learn to drive like less of a **** as well.

[MaryPoppins]

"You're going up a long hill now, you can't see the top yet.…"

That would be bad enough in reality, let alone having some idiot shouting it at me. That would make me angry.

[Mich the Tester]

"You're going up a long hill now, you can't see the top yet.…"

That would be bad enough in reality, let alone having some idiot shouting it at me. That would make me angry.

What if I were sat next to you and said ‘ooh, look, there’s a bus stop’?

[AtW]

WTF do you do in "spin" classes???

Depends whether you work for Nu Liebor.

[Churchill]

Depends whether you work for Nu Liebor.

[MaryPoppins]

What if I were sat next to you and said ‘ooh, look, there’s a bus stop’?

I'd push you off to distract the instructor, and do a runner. I think your feet would be strapped into the pedals, so, sorry about that.