I think the best way to learn is by doing. I also think that is the best way to blog. I could take my first spin class at the Xsport Fitness in Piper's Alley tomorrow and blog about it, or I could just do a blog about spinning based on what others have to say.
For entertainment's sake (and my chiseled physique's sake) I am going to take the class and blog about it afterward. It might be hours after the class because the recovery could take that long. And by recovery I mean picking myself up off the locker room floor.
Spinning is one of those things that I always hear about, but have never done. I've heard it's hard. I'm skeptical. I'm in reasonably good shape (That chiseled physique thing was a total fabrication) and I think I will push myself through anything they throw at me.
Alright, what's this Spinning thing all about?
If I: a) struggle through this class. b) don't finish or c) vomit in
the middle of it, then I will be pretty upset with myself, and probably
just lie on the follow up blog and say how the teacher asked me to
autograph her stationary bike at the end.
I used to work at a
sorority house and some of the girls there would attend spinning
classes. I quickly made Spinning the sister activity to Power-Walking.
I have taken into account the scene from Knocked Up
where Seth Rogan is telling the guy next to him "Slow down. You're
making me look like a jackass." I think that's the line I'm just going
to repeat to everyone in the room.
I might also request songs
and see how that goes over. I always hear the intense house music
coming out of the dark Spinning room at Xsport, but I never bothered to
look in during a class. It could be a bunch of people developing film with loud music on or it could be the cast of Jersey Shore fist pumping for all I know.
Tomorrow I will find out what exactly goes on in that room, and believe me, you all will be the first to know.
I'll have pictures to prove it.
2 Comments
Matt Bailey said:
I wish you luck sir-- I am a member of Xsport and have taken a couple of classes (not spinning) and have felt the sincere embarrassment of being the only man in there, while a bunch of far more manly men lift weights and can see me through the glass.
Despite my embarrassment I've found it a rewarding experience, mostly. The exercise, not the humiliation.
Mary Velan said:
Go get 'em, tiger!
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