A few months back, Morris Stemp, my friend through Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Forum, and I drove together to an EO conference in Atlantic City. On the ride there, he talked about spinning and how he really enjoyed it. “And you know you burn 600 calories,” he said.
600 calories…. hmmmm…. sounds good, I thought. I need to burn a lot of calories to loose 13 pounds! So when I found out that the New York Sports Club had spinning, I decided to try it out.
The club I belong to doesn’t have spinning but the Oceanside branch does. Yesterday, I decided to try it. I was really nervous. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to do it.
When I got there, a few of the other participants were extremely nice and tried to calm my nerves. “You know, if the class is going too fast, you can change your resistance,” one of the women told me. “You’ll love it,” said another one of the women.
As soon as the instructor walked in, I mentioned that I was new to this. He helped me adjust the bike and get all set up. “Just start cycling,” he told me and walked to the front of the class to turn on the music and start the program.
Okay, I thought to myself. This is it….
Here I was, sitting on a spinning bike in Oceanside, cycling away. As we climbed up hills, the instructor told us to put up the resistance. We were on a steep hill for a long time. It felt like hours but was only minutes. “Okay now stand,” the instructor said and the whole class got up on their bikes and rode standing up. “You can do it,” he screamed out. “Come on, even you rookie over there,” he said pointing to me. “Now come back down to first or second position and keep up the pace. I want you to count. You should be between 16 – 20 reps.”
He walked over to me. “How many reps?” he asked. “I’m sorry,” I said all out of breath, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
He was very patient and explained the whole process. He even suggested that if I like spinning to go and get a heart monitor because it tells you how hard you’re working…
After the class, I thanked the instructor and went into my car feeling! I was all out of breath but I was energized. I immediately thought of calling Morris.
“Hey, did I wake you?” I asked.
“No,” he said. “What’s up?”
“I took a spinning class and you were the one who influenced me so I wanted to thank you,” I said.
I can’t wait for the next spin class!
