Prior to xmas I spent all of my gym sessions lifting weights and doing situps. After 3 months I was starting to get a little bored of it so trying to mix it up a bit, I’ve now gone onto a cardio routine with a pre situp workout.
Always apprehensive to join a class – figuring I could only embarass myself – I overcame my fears and did my first RPM class a couple of weeks ago. A session of RPM is 45 minutes of hardcore cycle riding. That’s 20 butts – of all sizes – moving in very strange ways. My heartrate went through the roof as I was unfit and I’ve never sweat so much in my life.
It was such an awesome workout that I now do an RPM (or Spin) class every week day. My metabolism has picked up as a result and I’m always hungry now.
I can’t recommend doing classes enough. The peer pressure effect definitely pushes you to work harder than if you were to train by yourself.
I think I might try an “ab attack” class next.
So how much did you like “Brokeback Mountain” ?
I must say I’ve been wondering for sometime now – who is “he who knows”???
Just a casual aquaintance of the Bender…
A person of dubious experience and even more dubious thoughts.
Quite harmless, really.
“He who knows” is the guy who I can always count on for inappropriate comments :)
At least now with my new blog software I can add him to a watchlist and moderate all of his comments – if I wanted to :)
But where would be the fun in that?
“He who knows” is actually Ben’s alter ego. I have one too. It’s called: “She who doesn’t know squat”
On another note – nice work with the “Email me when others leave a comment for this article” option. Now I don’t need to keep coming back to check if my comment has been replied to. Hehe!
Ha ha. “She who doesn’t know squat” – hilarious, if only because it’s true ;)
None of these comments relate to this story at all!
Maybe you need a stickfly.com discussion board! :-)
Never in my life, would I be at a loss to describe my feelings as being thought of as “Ben’s alter ego”. Perhaps the shaft of light in an otherwise darkened room, perhaps the voice of reason in a sea of gibberish, perhaps the only sane person in the asylum, perhaps “the monster from the id”, but never Bender’s alter go. I could handle being called a pale imitation of the master (Ian E), but not this.
Now you must all drink the Kool-Aid.
I agree, I dont think he would be seen as Bens alter ego, perhaps Vald The Impaler’s alter ego is more appropriate…
A pale imitation, I think not. I believe he who knows will agree he has far surpassed my limits of sarcastic wit. Saying that I do so enjoy our occassional chats.
To comment on your actual story… about these “spin” classes as you call them… (never heard of em down under)
How much is there seriously that you can do on a bike? 45 minutes is such a long time, I get bored after just 5 minutes on my bike – even with a movie! I suppose it must be that negative-peer-pressure/ comfort-of-my-own-home thing.?.?
Nah Bailey – I was skeptical as well, but they’re totally rockin! It helps a lot that you’ve got someone up there motivating you to keep going.
They definitely have them in Australia as well, I know a few people that go to them religiously.