Yesterday, our homework assignment was to spend 10 minutes working out hard on five different pieces of cardiovascular equipment. Then, it was off to the weight room to work on lower-body strength routines.
Saturday, I took a 7:15 a.m. Spinning class to make up for the Krankcycle class I missed on Friday. Our instructor Jim, an energetic senior citizen, has the physique of a cyclist who could ride to the top of Mount Washington without running out of steam. In his class, you're guaranteed to work hard and sweat buckets.
He starts off easy, playing New-Age music and telling us to keep the resistance on our bikes low, "as if we're pedaling down an easy, flat road like the Rec Path." It's relaxing until the music changes to a more pulsating beat and Jim tells us to turn up the resistance a bit.
At the midpoint of the class we're struggling to get up our first big hill, pushing up the resistance every minute for four minutes as we rise out of the saddles of our bikes and pedal standing up. Just when I'm not sure if I can pedal any farther, Jim announces that we've crested the hill and tells us to loosen the resistance as we ease back into our saddles.
By the end of the class I've pedaled over 20 miles, according to the speedometer and I'm sure I've burned a couple hundred calories. Not a bad way to start the day, even if it takes all the motivation I can muster to drag myself out of bed so early on a weekend.
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