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Old 05-19-2010, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by K9-Lovers View Post
Okay, so I'm still confused. If "spinning" is riding a stationery bike, then why do you need classes for that? It seems that after the first successful try, you could spin along without intervention or direction?? I don't get it.
I don't get it either. I have a DICKENS of a time moving my body for no obvious reward to the work. Now I know, I truly understand the benefits of exercise, but I had grandparents who grew up in the depression and it just seems like such a waste of time and my mind gets all bored and numb when I am doing a stair climber or a stationary bike, and forget being in an aerobics class, they are going left and I am going right and my bra is attacking me and I am sweating near a room full of other people.

Now gardening or painting or dragging stuff out of the attic or scrubbing the garage floor seems to have a purpose and also walking the lawn mower around the big yard up here in Ohio. Also, walking around The Villages with daughter Helene is a joyful thing too.

Does it burn the same amount of calories and get your heart all pumping in the same way to just WORK???
I suspect I am wrong but I can't get with going to the gym.