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Hello Everyone,

I am thinking about having Fitness Tuesday.  Every Tuesday there will be information about healthy eating and physical fitness.  Please check with your physician before attempting to do exercises that you may see in a video post.  Let me know what you think by posting a comment.

There is a great group exercise called Spin.  It is a fantastic cardio workout, people spin for various reasons, weight loss, toning, full body workout without having to get on equipment all the time, but this is a wonderful cardio exercise. It is on a specialized stationary bike and it is loads of fun.  It is pretty intense and last for about 45 minutes, but always go at your own pace.  Instructors will motivate the class by saying things like, "push, if you seriously want results then work hard!!!"  This is overall for motivation, but go at your pace and hydrate throughout.  This is a class that I love.  Unfortunately, I have not been in awhile.

Here are some tips:

1. take a bottle of water and a bottle of powerade or gatorade to sip on while spinning.  Just switch between the two to stay hydrated.   Or just take water.  Although, you will sweat do not drink ice cold fluids while spinning.
2. do not where long sleeves or thick sweat pants, sweat, sweat, sweat is going to happen, so do not over dress.
3. take a change of shirt/top, because by the end of the class you will be soaked.
4. it is always good to stretch some before class.
5. be on time, it is a very popular class and can get filled quick.
6. invest in bike shoes.
7. invest in bike gloves.
8. do not forget to pace yourself, pay no attention to those around you, they maybe long time spinners.
9. ask the instructor to help you set up the bike.
10. invest in bike pants with seat cushion or a bike seat cushion cover for your first few classes.
11. there is always a warm up  period where you just peddle before the session starts; however, if you are tardy and the session has started, do not jump into the session it is good to still do the warm up.

Below are two videos, the first is instructional information on spinning, the second is a glimpse of a spin class in session.   Third video is for inspiration.

 +Meagan Murphy, Fitness Director of Self and +Lauri Murphy, Spin Instructor in New York

                                                    +Psy Simon's, Spin Instructor

                                                   Video by +Dunstin Hughes

Fitness Tuesday, post your comments, let me know if you would like this.  Also, I am new to twitter and no followers yet, so, remember to follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/trueyouness.

With inspiration,
Oreadea