Spinning is great. My father was the one who got me into spinning. I remember the first time I went to a spinning class with him. First of all it was early in the morning so I wasn't thrilled. But then, when I had been in class for about 15 minutes, and wanted to kill this perfectly nice lady in charge, I knew spinning wasn't for me. I hated it. It was hard. I wanted to stop. Get off. But everyone else kept going and everyone else was much older than me (like gray hair, WHY is he in spandex, older...not that young men should be hanging out in spandex either, but whatever). When I finished that dreaded hour of sweat-producing, constant pedaling, I felt like I had conquered the world. A very similar feeling to how I felt after my sister pushed me to jog for 3.5 miles in high school for the first time. Endorphins, I tell you, they are the BEST! Add those to my lame list of things that don't get old.
Last year I did a "spin-a-thon" in Vermont with my father and sister and I loved it and I loved training for it. I secretly kind of missed it over the summer when all it did was make sense to workout outside, so I'm pretty excited to start back up, starting tonight. YAY. I totally by accident recruited people to spin with me. Some liked it, some hated it. I think those that hate it need to give it a chance...I'm just saying that I did, what after hating my life after 15 minutes....
So it's time to say goodbye to running and hello to spinning.
Me: "Bye running. I will miss you. I will probably not be seeing your friend, the treadmill. Because he is NOT my friend. He is boring. See you in, eh, April? Love ya."
Me: "Hey spinning! I've missed you!"
Anyway....me making up dialogue between me and forms of exercise=time to end the blog.
LOL.
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4 comments:
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i've never tried spinning, but you have me considering it...and something else that never gets old? new blogs!
i'm confused b/c if you're running outside, then why are you saying goodbye to the treadmill? unless your treadmill is outside, then that would be awesome...but you should be saying goodbye to the ground, gravel, grass, dirt paths, etc... that you run on. or you should say goodbye to the outside in general, b/c it's cold and i've learned that you DO NOT like winter...just some thoughts...but i'd liked your blog "none-the-less" (another saying that never gets old!)
I'm one of the ones that hate spinning and thought I was going to die when I saw only 15 minutes had gone by in my first, and last, spinning class. I don't know how I got through the rest. All I can say is to fake the resistance. When the instructor tells you to turn up your resistance on the bike to similate a hill in real life, you take your hand and cover the twisty thing on the front of the bike and make a twisting motion with your wrist so that everybody thinks you've boosted the resistance when in fact you haven't. Actually, now that I tihnk back, I might have even LOWERED the resistance. What about that miss spinning instructor?!?!? Oh, and another key in faking the resistance, is acting like you're out of breath and breathing really hard. Maybe even turning red. Heck, PASSOUT!! Then you definitely can stop spinning without looking like a whimp. ; ) I won't tell.
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