Wow, everyone is just posting up a storm! I'm not sure where I am with my challenges - will have to check on that later.
Apple, yes, yesterday was weigh-in. I was down 3 pounds, much of it salt and fat and water from my trip the previous week. If you stick to the beer challenge this time, you'll start melting and give me a run for my money. I wouldn't have lost at all if I hadn't left the corkscrew in the drawer...
Red, Tribal Fusion is the source of all those annoying pop-ups that 3fc sends our way and which my pop-up blocker doesn't block. I think my record was 12 during one session. Very annoying, as they make the whole page blink and flicker when they arrive on the scene.
The difference between spinning and a regular exercise bike? Well, to begin with, you sit on the spinning bike the same as a regular road bike. Instead of gears, there's a resistance knob you turn to make it harder or easier to pedal. No brakes (just full up on the knob to release the resistance), and no neutral gear, which means you can't "coast". Your legs keep moving as long as the wheel is turning, which is for the duration of the class. The instructor at the front tells you (well, shouts at you, actually) when to move to an easy seated climb, a tough seated climb, a long hill with several resistance increases, recovery... all with loud, pulsing, usually atrocious technomusic. The fun is that it's group rather than solitary suffering, someone else has devised the program, you're less likely to slack off or quit in front of witnesses, and you can burn off at least 500 calories in 45 minutes no sweat. (In my case, actually, buckets of sweat. But no metaphorical sweat at all.) An advantage is that if you spin all through the winter, when bike season rolls around your tush is already well broken in and you can hit the roads with no training build-up. A disadvantage is that since you can't coast, you can't just stand up and freewheel for a few seconds to rest your backside or adjust your shorts. Gotta keep on pedalling. And in an endurance class, which is almost all seated, the discomfort can be pretty dire. And no cycling shorts will make that any easier, at least not with my bony butt. (Now if I was sitting on my belly, I might have enough padding to nix the pain...) So now you know all about spinning, and will know better than to ask that kind of question again.
Marble, I have my own theories on how you sprained your tuchus, but this is a family site, so I'll keep my suspicions to myself!
CBETA, amazing - you're almost at the end of your challenges already! Good for you.
Tay, did I miss something? I think Red congratulated you on a completed challenge - which challenge was it it? Or was our fearless leader
wrong (gasp)?
Fish you poor baby, take care of yourself!
You work so hard, no wonder you get sick and can't shake it. But way to go on the weight loss. No cloud without a silver etc, right? Now where's that nasty massage therapist now that you're just skin and bones?
Greetings to Curly, Jolly, Tia, and anyone else I've forgotten.