Spinners

After at the ortho on Monday she told the best thing for me knees was to lose the weight (working on it!) and instead of doing solely step, I should try other things. She suggested spin. Now spin is very intimidating. 'Spinners are intense' is what I always thought. I was willing to try it though. My sister mentioned that people swear by spin. So I called a few gyms. Granted I was calling at like 3 but still it took about 5 gyms to get a decent time (ie not 5 pm) with space available. That was slightly annoying since I was calling from work but whatever, I was quiet when I made what was clearly a personal call :) Of course I was running late - I wanted to be early and I was less than five minutes early. I find the studio and it's full of people with the lights off. Weird - so I wait. Then someone walks past me into the studio. There isn't a class before so I was very confused why people were in the studio. Finally I ask someone, are the people in the studio there for the 6:30 class? Yes they're warming up... Hmm spinners are intense. Of course by now there is only a bike available to the side of the instructor. Great! Now my incompetence will be on display for all to see! Woo hoo! I get there and being the independent person I am I try to figure it out on my own. Finally I ask the girl next to me - how do I adjust the seat? Then I hear someone say "how we doing over here?" I had to confess to the instructor that I was a rookie. I am glad I did! There are positions in spin! Who would have thought?! The instructor checked up on me occasionally throughout class. I was busy trying to act like I knew what was I was doing and trying to get air! We did the whole class in the dark (I have come to realize this is common) but it was interesting and SUPER hard. Just like when I started step. Pouring sweat and barely keeping up. There are so many spin classes available and it's a great workout (usually 500 calories for a 45 minute class) so I'll add it to my repertoire but I don't know that I'll ever be a crazy spinner. I am typically late and doubt I'll ever care where my bike is (except no front row please!) so I make a mediocre spinner but the result is the same - great workout!