Hello, I am Nil and I am an addicted.

I felt for spinning classes and can't get enough. I made research about the benefices of it but there is so many infos that it is difficult to collect them all together in once.

So I would like to know if there is other addicted like me on the forum. How long have you been doing it and what are the physical changes you experienced. My teacher told me a good session can burn up to 600 calories / 50 minutes.

Oh! And I would like to know how long will my butt hurt? It is pretty bad. When on the bike, the pain is excruciating more than any other parts. I feel it right on the bones where I sit.

Hi Nil,

Thanks for sharing with all of us today.... you're making great progress.

While maintaining your addiction, you might want to try a bicycle shop to see if you can find a 'gel' cover for a bike seat to take with you (and from) the class.
The cover should just slip over the bike seat and have a string to pull tight underneath it.

I know someone who had the same problem, and this was the easiest solution.

Maybe you can answer something for me. Isn't spinning just a fancy name for riding a stationary bike?

It's an honest question. I used to ride a stationary bike at the gym in the winter when it got too cold to ride a real velo on the street, and I hated it. All that work to never go anywhere! Now that I live in CH, it's winter again, and I really don't want to go back to that.

What am I missing?

Sit at the back of the class my friend....... not the front.






(Sorry Nil, you knew I had to do it.)

The difference between spinning and stationary bikes

Sorry, but how can this give you a bum like that?

I am only a beginner at my addiction so I can't help about the name thing. I love it to be spinning on loud music with someone in front pushing us with speed and positions. I also love to feel the need to perform because I don't want to be the one not able to get to the end of the 50 minutes.

The first class, I wanted to die after 15 minutes... But I kept telling myself; Ok, give 5 more minutes and I'll call it a day but everyone was still spinning and I couldn't bring myself to be seen as the girl who left early. so I swore every single minute until the end. It felt so good! I can't remember the last time I had so much energy.

Since, I am looking at the next class with excitement and wish I could do it everyday. I guess I like to suffer.

I am curious how this will improve my body? How long before to see the results? Will I lose weight (size) I can't get this info from people in the class as most have quite a lot to lose.

So anyone did it on a long run and can report on the results?

Thanks!

Am I the only one for whom the thread title conjured up images of something like this ?

Ask Wolli

I don't know anything about spinning Nil (either kind), but if you burn 3500 more calories than you are taking in, you will lose around a pound of fat. Therefore 6 or 7 classes, you lose a pound, as long as you don't eat more than you need (around 2000 calories a day). Probably.

So, no difference at all, then?

Apart from having someone shouting at you and making you feel inadequate, obviously.

Not shouting, pushing! Go guys, you can do this! Up..... 3, 2,1 down, keep spinning......

I think you do it really really fast.

http://bicycling.about.com/od/traini...r/spinning.htm

Here is my butt dream

And that's supposed to be a good thing? Sounds like my idea of hell.

You will get out of it what you put into it.

Feeling like you will die in the first 15mins will go away with time, but you have to keep trying.

That's where you benefit from an instructor pushing you to keep going (as opposed to just sitting on a bike plugged into your headphones).

(CAUTION: Super rough mathematics ahead)
I think 600 calories is a conservative estimation, if you're working at about 80% of your max heartrate* ((220)-age X 80%) you will burn calories.
(*I'm guessing, it's been a long time so please correct me if you know)

Calorie wise, it's estimated that a kilogram of body fat is about 7,000 calories, and you shouldn't lose more than a kilogram per week to maintain a healthy weight reduction.
Therefore, if you use about 2,000 calories per day doing nothing (adjusted by age and gender) and if you went to spin class 3 times a week and burnt 1,000 calories each time, you would use 17,000 calories in a week.
You should eat no more than 10,000 calories (in this example) to safely lose 1kg of body fat.

Myths and diets take over from here and there are millions of different theories, but you can't get away from one simple principle...... to go backwards, you have to use more energy than you put in.

As I said, you'll get out of it what you put into it.
Getting started though, I'd suggest you focus on the cardio fitness first rather than the diet.... you're going to need a bit of help.
Controlling your diet and increasing the excercise (and intensity) will get you results.

Watch the fatties in the class, they will do bugger all and I doubt they are as dilegent with their diet as they let on.


Spin Nil...... SPIN !!!

Too muscly. Not bad, but could do with the softer look a little bit of subcutaneous fat would give.

I can't really speak for the differences between classes and on your own, but when I was dedicated, I was riding a bike 5 miles a day 5 days a week (real bike, on the street). I never varied the route, but instead just kept trying to go faster to beat my own time. When I started, I was completing 5 miles in about 35 minutes, but within about three months, I could complete the same circuit in about 20 minutes by using faster, harder to peddle gears. I was so energetic that I started doing sit-ups as well, and was up to one set of 100, 3 times a week. I went down 4 inches in my waist, was back down to what I weighed in high school, and had tons of energy.

It took about 1/2 hour per day. and was well worth it. My wife allegedly liked the "view from the rear" as well.

prefer this

They are constructed a bit differently. Just do a google image search for spinning bike and then for stationary bike. Also I've never seen a recumbent spinning bike.