Wednesday, March 9, 2011

My version of Spinning

Gratuity:  Grandmothers and knowing my history.  Hopefully, I will be one someday.   I wonder if I want to be called Grandma, Nana, or Memaw.  

Goal Work: Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.  ~Albert Einstein

As I mentioned earlier, the training for the 42 mile trek :-) across NYC has started.   Others on my team have decided to take spinning classes.   I am sure you have heard of  spinning classes which are also known as group stationary biking.   I figured it is like doing treadmill work but with a group to motivate you.  I don't belong to a fancy gym with such classes but I figured I could create my own gym.   I have a stationary bike, I have a TV, I have a DVD player, I have a netflix subscription.  Sure enough if I connect all the dots, I have a spinning class.   Of course my stationary bike was upstairs and my DVD players was downstairs so my husband solved that by buying himself a BlueRay player for downstairs and giving me the DVD player for upstairs.   Tuesday's will now officially become spin class day at my house.


Awaken: 08:00AM
Yesterday's MIT: Excellent Job
Today's MIT: Call Vet, Buy new cat litter, Laundry
Salad:Breakfast,Lunch
Fruit: Banana/Banana/Orange
Water: Did not count

Choices:  I went to the store this evening to my some groceries and my daughter asked me to buy her guacamole dip and chips.     Unfortunately when I got home from the store I helped her consume them.  Bad choice.

2 comments:

  1. Here is my Spin advice:
    1. Find a way to do a spin class with an instructor. Just once will be eye opening on intensity, resistance and form.

    2. All the classes I do use intervals in the class. They all also do a combo of climbs (increasing resistance), sprints (fast) and jumps (out of the seat)

    Have fun! I would be curious how much you think it helps with real biking.

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  2. Thanks Gin - Yes in the past I have taken spin classes - indeed they are intense. Not quite the same with the video but I was sweatin.

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