Re: Spin Classes?

On 2 Dec 2003 07:53:48 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Kochanski) wrote:

>You have complete control over how hard you "ride".  Wear a heart rate
>monitor, you can keep yourself from going anaerobic.

        This is very true but the spin classes around here, at least
the ones I've seen,  are "bent" towards more intensity shorter
intervals. Two minutes at a low HR with 30secs RI doesn't do much for
base building. The other problem is self discipline. It's all to easy
to get sucked into that "group race" mentality adn end up doing a hard
workout ratehr than the nice base building ride you had intentended.
        It's just easier/safer for me this time of year to throw the
bike on the trainer, pop my favorite movie in and ride away at a nice
easy pace. Boring as hell some times but you can't have everything.

~Matt 

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>MK
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>MJuric wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> On 23 Nov 2003 11:17:19 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jkmsg) wrote:
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>> >Spin classes are good... but, the only setback can come from going
>> >anaerobic when your training regimen may not call for high
>> >intensity-low volume training.  In essence, Spin classes work unless
>> >you are training for low intensity-high volume results (i.e., IM/long
>> >course triathlons).  Speed improvement as a result of spin classes can
>> >be relative - speed vs. endurance.
>> >
>> >Joe Moya
>> 
>>      I've been waffeling on going to a spin class for this reason.
>> This is the time of the year to be taking it easy or back to working
>> on your base. Seems a high intensity bike workout is inappropriate for
>> me at this point.
>> 
>> ~Matt 
>> >
>> >
>> >Harold Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> >> What do people think of spin classes as a way to improve cycling speed 
>> >> over the winter?
>> >> 
>> >> I'm hoping that spin classes will help me get faster since they seem to 
>> >> be pretty good interval work and the bikes seem pretty close to road 
>> >> bikes. I like the bikes a lot better than the typical "exercise bikes," 
>> >> and the instructors seem to do a good job of pushing me.
>> >> 
>> >> --Harold Buck
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> "I used to rock and roll all night,
>> >>  and party every day.
>> >>  Then it was every other day. . . ."
>> >>       -Homer J. Simpson