[Mudder]

Will be moving to TV mid June,need to find out where and when spin classes are held and if there is a cost assoc. with them. I'm addicted and need to stay that way ! Thanks.

[jmitchell]

My understanding is that they have spinning classes at the Wellness Center in Spanish Springs and that they is a charge. We will be building in Pennecamp at the end of the year. We have our lot on hold and can't wait. I too would like to do some spinning although the outdoor golf cart trails seems awfully enticing also!

[K9-Lovers]

Okay. Please explain what "spinning" is. At first I thought you were talking about spinning yarn on a loom until the golf cart trail comment.....

[getdul981]

Originally Posted by K9-Lovers

Okay. Please explain what "spinning" is. At first I thought you were talking about spinning yarn on a loom until the golf cart trail comment.....

Stationary bicycle.

Greg

[cybrgeezer]

And here I thought 'spin cycle classes' had to do with teaching your washer one of its functions.

[getdul981]

I've never been able to teach our washer a thing. It's got a mind of it's own.

[K9-Lovers]

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.

[getdul981]

I don't know about other places, but at the club we used to go to, they had classes and there is an instructor who sets the pace. You have music and the instructor hollering at you over the PA system. They have you adjust the tension on the bike and sometimes sitting and sometimes standing. From what I've seen, it's a pretty good work-out. Not nearly as much fun to me as I like to have the wind in my face when I ride a bike. It's kinda like walking on a treadmill. I'd rather be actually moving.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by K9-Lovers

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.

[TrudyM]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

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.

I have to listen to a tape book to do any of the afformentioned activities. My brother offered to give me a membership to curves for my birthday, a large hint. But I can't get off my duff to finish the work on the house that needs doing so the last thing I am going to do is go to a gym.

But I do know people who love their spinning classes. They say they need the trainer yelling at them for motivation. I can't see paying someone to yell at you. Just me.