Spinning

snocomber

Hi,

I had a great workout last night in Winning Solutions training centre. The spin class is specifically aimed at cyclists and triathletes, a great way to keep the form up over the cold and dark winter. Check them out-winningsolutions.ie

Caroline_ie

I have been going there as well along with a few people from Orwell. I usually cycle out there which really looks silly but feels pretty good to cycle home easy after the hard 1 hour.

tunney

Whats wrong with turbo sessions?
(a) they're free
(b) they're convient
(c) they're specific to you
(d) they're relevant
(e) they're free?

snocomber

tunney wrote: »

Whats wrong with turbo sessions?
(a) they're free
(b) they're convient
(c) they're specific to you
(d) they're relevant
(e) they're free?

Free they may be BUT the turbo is so boring:) It's amazing what a difference a bit of group energy makes!

Beasty

shaungil's introducing some of us in North County Dublin to spinning lessons next week.

My plan is to turn up to the first one to give it a go - the second one I suspect I'll just bring the camera, with the intention of sharing the "experience" here;)

Then I think it will be back to the Tacx in the garage for me ...

thebouldwhacker

Turbos, rollers, spinning classes I just dont get them, why not winter mtb?
I'm afraid this is what I think of when I think of spin classes:)

My points for mtb include

1)Its out doors
2)Its free
3)Its great for improving cycling skills
4)Its great for climbing training
5)Its sooo much fun it should be illegal
6)It can be done in rain, shine, day or night
7)Its a full body work out
8)It will make you a tougher rider allowing you to enjoy cycling no matter the weather conditions
9)Its got nothing to do with cycling while watching T.V./laptop or some Spin Teacher shouting at you about 'pushing it to the max' or other awesome motivational snippets.
10)ITS CYCLING
11)This list could go on all night so I'm stopping now (did I mention how much fun it is)

I rest my case.

yop

Getting a turbo myself soon, keeping an eye on the adverts! Least you can do your own training and not pay for spinning!

tunney

snocomber wrote: »

Free they may be BUT the turbo is so boring:) It's amazing what a difference a bit of group energy makes!

Turbos aren't boring if you get your sets right. Spinning is better than sitting on the sofa eating malteasers though.

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Turbos, rollers, spinning classes I just dont get them, why not winter mtb?
I'm afraid this is what I think of when I think of spin classes:)

My points for mtb include

1)Its out doors
2)Its free
3)Its great for improving cycling skills

Cool, I'm always wanting to bunny hop in TTs

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

4)Its great for climbing training

How?

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

5)Its sooo much fun it should be illegal
6)It can be done in rain, shine, day or night

Much like riding on the road then.

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

7)Its a full body work out
8)It will make you a tougher rider allowing you to enjoy cycling no matter the weather conditions

Much like cycling on the road then?

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

9)Its got nothing to do with cycling while watching T.V./laptop or some Spin Teacher shouting at you about 'pushing it to the max' or other awesome motivational snippets.
10)ITS CYCLING

Emmmmmm

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

11)This list could go on all night so I'm stopping now (did I mention how much fun it is)

I rest my case.

thebouldwhacker

Turbos and spinning are to cycling what treadmills are to running... if thats your bag happy days, but I'll take a forest to cycle through in any weather rather than a turbo in a shed. simples
The bit about mtbing improving your climbing comes from cycling up mountains btw, winter road cycling bears little resemblance to winter mtb, as for bunny hopping the TT bike..... I got no reply to that:)

tunney

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Turbos and spinning are to cycling what treadmills are to running... if thats your bag happy days, but I'll take a forest to cycle through in any weather rather than a turbo in a shed. simples
The bit about mtbing improving your climbing comes from cycling up mountains btw, winter road cycling bears little resemblance to winter mtb, as for bunny hopping the TT bike..... I got no reply to that:)

And whats the typical gradient of a MTB climb? And distance?

mloc123

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Turbos and spinning are to cycling what treadmills are to running... if thats your bag happy days, but I'll take a forest to cycle through in any weather rather than a turbo in a shed. simples
The bit about mtbing improving your climbing comes from cycling up mountains btw, winter road cycling bears little resemblance to winter mtb, as for bunny hopping the TT bike..... I got no reply to that:)

when you say climbing I presume you mean pushing your bike up the hills before freewheeling down?

niceonetom

Ah, the eternal question: Mountain-biking or turboing - which is better?

Next week: apples .v. oranges.

cdaly_

Bananas obviously...

shaungil

We did Tuesday and Thursday evenings from Nov last year on the road and I felt 8 weeks of spinning on one of these nights would break up the winter a bit more.

Also there's a few people around the area who want to get into cycling a bit more so I thought they'd be more likely to get involved if we started spinning instead of dragging them up Ardgillan hill five times a night in the lashing rain.

Variey being the spice of life and all that.

ROK ON

I signed up last week for a 4 weeks of spinning sessions at Winning Solutions.
Not sure should I be doing something this intense this early in winter, however I wanted to give it a try and compare it to my own turbo sessions.