I'm a Spin Class Convert

by The Watcher

Leah Remini was recently voted the sexiest TV wife for her role as Carrie Heffernan in the US sitcom, King of Queens. I remember in the first couple of series when she was very slender and in a few episodes made mention that she was off to a spin class.

I had no idea what a spin class was and asumed it was some sort of aerobics class that was probably quite silly. Goodness knew what spun! It was a few years ago when I found out that the spinning was the wheels of an exercise bike. I finally took the plunge and did a spin class last week and I must say....Ouch!

I had played football the day before but that mild stiffness in no way was an excuse for the acute burning and embarrassing lack of spinning stamiona I displayed. Spinning is serious. The class was taken by a young guy who sweated as much as me but was coaxing more effort from the class members whilst pedalling furiously, bolt upright, leaning back and doing a version of press ups whilst pedalling very quickly. Combined with increasing the resistance of the bike made for a hellishly hard workout and I had no shame whatsoever in sitting down on the too-hard seat and pedalling sedately whilst I gulped down oxygen and tried to recover. The class was mostly women with three guys (I, the teacher and another fella who must have been a ringer as he didn't stop once!).

I asked the teacher after the class how he got to the level he is at and he said (probably a lie) that he was just like me when he started and it just takes practice and that I should keep coming. Indeed! I'll give it another month.