Gonna Make You Sweat
Spinning class
1 hour
“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.” ~Mark Twain
Well said Mr Clemens and appropriate for this evening’s entry – for I may not regret doing these classes when I’m 20 miles around the 26.2 mile marathon, but I do need to make it to the start line.
Actually, it wasn’t as bad as the last session – the usual instructor was away and the guy who stood in for him didn’t seem as hardcore. The music was slightly better as well – Scissor Sisters ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ was a high point.
We did a 10 minute warm up of steady pedalling, and then the session was divided into three sets: i) climbing ii) speed and iii) power.
25 minutes of climbing first (yes, you heard me, twenty five minutes) split into 3 sets of increasing steepness (simulated by adding resistance to the fly-wheel your legs are propelling). It wasn’t too bad – less standing than last time and a more consistent speed, which allowed me to get into a rhythm.
15 minutes of speed work followed – increasing the rotation speed of your legs until you are doing around 80/90 turns a minute. I found this tough – my legs were tired after the first set and I couldn’t seem to get the technique right. I would either be pedalling furiously and wobbling all over the place or, after adding some extra resistance to slow me down, be finding it difficult to keep up!
The remaining 10 minutes or so was spent on ‘power’ – which simply seemed like a combination of the other two to me. We had to stand up and sprint for 10 seconds with heavy resistance and then sit down and keep our leg speed going, as though we had cruised past and imaginary rider and wanted to show that were weren’t tired at all (I love the imagery part), and this was repeated until we all collapsed from exhaustion.
Amusingly, this week we warmed down to ‘Gonna Make You Sweat’ by C+C Music Factory – fitting, as I was drenched. Big shout out to the steelworkers of America – keep reaching for that rainbow boys!!
Feeling good at the moment, but longing to go out for a normal run again. Striking tomorrow, so am going to do interval training in the park.
1 hour
“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.” ~Mark Twain
Well said Mr Clemens and appropriate for this evening’s entry – for I may not regret doing these classes when I’m 20 miles around the 26.2 mile marathon, but I do need to make it to the start line.
Actually, it wasn’t as bad as the last session – the usual instructor was away and the guy who stood in for him didn’t seem as hardcore. The music was slightly better as well – Scissor Sisters ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ was a high point.
We did a 10 minute warm up of steady pedalling, and then the session was divided into three sets: i) climbing ii) speed and iii) power.
25 minutes of climbing first (yes, you heard me, twenty five minutes) split into 3 sets of increasing steepness (simulated by adding resistance to the fly-wheel your legs are propelling). It wasn’t too bad – less standing than last time and a more consistent speed, which allowed me to get into a rhythm.
15 minutes of speed work followed – increasing the rotation speed of your legs until you are doing around 80/90 turns a minute. I found this tough – my legs were tired after the first set and I couldn’t seem to get the technique right. I would either be pedalling furiously and wobbling all over the place or, after adding some extra resistance to slow me down, be finding it difficult to keep up!
The remaining 10 minutes or so was spent on ‘power’ – which simply seemed like a combination of the other two to me. We had to stand up and sprint for 10 seconds with heavy resistance and then sit down and keep our leg speed going, as though we had cruised past and imaginary rider and wanted to show that were weren’t tired at all (I love the imagery part), and this was repeated until we all collapsed from exhaustion.
Amusingly, this week we warmed down to ‘Gonna Make You Sweat’ by C+C Music Factory – fitting, as I was drenched. Big shout out to the steelworkers of America – keep reaching for that rainbow boys!!
Feeling good at the moment, but longing to go out for a normal run again. Striking tomorrow, so am going to do interval training in the park.
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