Does spinning get more enjoyable?

Once your arse stops hurting. Yes! Clipping into the pedals helps massively too. It gives you much more pulling power on the pedals than just ramming your feet into the cage things. Just don't do what I did and end up clipping in and then getting well and truly stuck. I had to get the instructor to help me pull my foot out of my shoe and then unscrew it off the pedal rendering it useless afterwards. Oh and definitely don't wear them to walk across a wooden floor. I made that mistake 😅

I have been to spinning classes where new people have walked out half way through.

It’s definitely worth persevering with and becomes very addictive and hugely enjoyable. I do Les Mills Sprint which is tabata style, so intense but only 30 minutes.

I might miss other classes in the week, but I never miss the spinning ones.

I love it - usually do 2-4 classes pw

In my gym there’s 4/5 different instructors - only two I love, but I know others who prefer the ones I’m not keen on.

I do think it’s either for you or it isn’t, I’ve encouraged lots of friends to try it and some love it, some hate it!

I'm the exact same!

I will forever think of it as Les Mills with a French accent now. 😂

Spin is always hell, but that's what I want from an exercise class! Anything enjoyable or gentle doesn't do it for me.

He blasted the music in the dark studio and stood at the front absorbing the music, arms out like Jesus Christ, in a huge sweat.

My genius instructor was a bit like that (except that he rode, not stood), but my metaphor for his passion was sex rather than religion. He seemed permanently building up to the point of orgasm and then dialling back, and I pictured him falling into his girlfriend's arms at the end of the day and having a fast, animal climax.

I've hated every second of every spin class I have ever done. I don't do it anymore! I do powerwave instead. Spinning and running are not my thing.

Right, thank you all for your advice, but I am now almost certain it's not for me.

I was a total spin addict as I stumbled across a fantastic instructor in DL. Loved his choice of music along with the build up of intensity, and his motivational words, the group collective... it put me on some sort of a high! I even bought him a Christmas present He'd say a few nice words at the end and honestly I would walk out of that studio feeling empowered.

They brought in cyclone and another fixed format class. They were tough too but not like his unique class.

You know you can totally cruise along and not work hard in a spin. But one thing we always did was "empty the legs" - you leave with nothing. This Is The Way. By the end you should have given it your all.

One instructor must have turned up pissed or buzzing from the night before. He blasted the music in the dark studio and stood at the front absorbing the music, arms out like Jesus Christ, in a huge sweat.

Spin can be mental!

Did you 🤢 afterwards?

if not it could get worse 😂

I loved used to love it but it does take some getting used to! And some instructors are harder and some easier.

My favourite was a lovely prison guard who used to just know how to work it so I was completely knakered and lungs opens up but without giving up.

Sometimes I didn't put on as much weight as the instructor said (to the bike wheel) but depends on the bikes and instructors if you can do that.

Get a gel saddle cover for a few quid to save your undercarriage! Although it does toughen up!!

Lololol.😂 It is actually a popular musical about flour production in France.

It is brilliant when you have a good instructor, and when they really use the music properly so that its rhythms motivate you to stay at the required pace. Years ago my Bannatyne gym had a genius instructor and I came out of every class feeling more dead and more alive than at any other point during the week.

Now they have unmotivated and unmotivating instructors, and they don't use the music properly. The speeds you are instructed to cycle at bear no resemblance to the music's rhythms. It is just a huge noise in the background.

If your classes are good, yes, the experience will get better, because you will become addicted to the high created by endorphins and the shared experience of pain

A word of warning: I really damaged my shoulders and forearms by years of spinning with poor posture. Now, if I spin at all, I make sure that I am not dragging on my arms at all. I only use the handlebars for balance and try to make all the effort come from my core and my legs.

I hated it.

However, I am more of a pilates, yoga or barre person! I do like a run on the treadmill though.

A person! But I spent the first 5 months of my gym membership pronouncing it as Les mills like Les Mis the musical and was mortified when I was (finally) corrected!

I go to a gym which has technogym stuff (no idea if that’s the norm!) but I can change my ftp on the app, so on days I feel powerful I set it high to 150, when I’m on my period I put it down to 120 and on a normal tired after work day at about 135/140. That works for me as it’s always as hard as I need it to be! I do love it

Thanks, it is a new EA centre with a dedicated spin studio so it will have all the tech although if its anything like the rest of the tech in the place it'll be broken already.

We have screens and scores at Everyone Active, but not names. The scores are against the number of your bike and the bikes are arranged randomly, so only you know which bike you're on.

I enjoy the first 20 mins and suffer through the rest for the endorphins, and because I think you get a lot of benefit for the time, fitness wise. When I do spin consistently both my road cycling and my running improve.

Is Les Mills a name of a person? Or is it French as in Les?

I can't ask anyone in rl

certainly some do, yes! Not sure if all do but locally to me, EA have a new spin studio with a screen and scores.

I love it and bought a peloton! Mostly do 30/45 min classes but sometimes add in a 60 min
I'm not fit at all

Thanks, so like doing them against a kitchen counter or similar. I had visions of everyone leaping off their bikes to do them on the floor.