Ummm. It seems that my nice spinning teacher read my blog last week. She came into the Sunday morning class muttering something about "I'll show you fascism, you communist..." Or something like that.
She then proceeded the subject everyone in the class to 60 minutes of unadulterated terror with hideous hill climbs which went to hill sprints which led to flat sprints, doing this cycle over and over and over. All the while she had a disturbing somewhat sociopathic/maniacal grin. Before the class was over, about five people dropped out. At one point, I heard a somewhat quiet, but clearly audible muttering of "b&%ch" from two bikes to the right (I've always wondered why more people didn't say that in group exercise classes).
Truth be told, it was a pretty awesome workout and a good testimony to the 50% harder work than cycling alone theorem. Kind of like people who go to Weight Watchers meetings lose multiple times more weight than people who diet alone (oops, pardon my shameless, self-serving plug!).
So what's the moral of the story? Talk smack to your spinning instructor. You just might get an even better workout. Or you might hurl. Either way, nothing risked, nothing gained.
2 comments:
Spinning definitely has its scary side! ;-)
BTW, what are the statistics on weight loss of people using WW online only as opposed to people using WW meetings only?
I've often wondered why you don't hear more name calling in group X too... I know I've thought it.
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