Why You Should Incorporate Spinning

Exercise Into Your Fitness Routine

While anyone can jump on an exercise bike and pedal away, spinning is done in a class setting with the instruction of a trainer or health professional. Some spinning classes are even being offered with video instruction now.

There are quite a few different benefits of spinning indoors, making this an excellent form of exercise for anyone who needs to lose weight, build muscle mass, or relieve stress and tension.

Calorie Burn

There aren't many exercises that can burn up to 1,000 calories in an hour, but you can do that with spinning! If you are trying to lose or maintain weight and need a high calorie deficit to reach your goals, spinning is going to get you there much faster than virtually any other type of cardiovascular workout.The effort you put into a spinning class, the more calories you are going to burn. That means the more weight you could potentially lose!

Benefits of Spinning Indoors

Best of Both Worlds

Most exercises fall into the category of either aerobic or anaerobic, depending on whether it is more oriented to building muscle or burning calories. Spinning gives you the best of both worlds because it is a super calorie burner that gets you sweating and your heart rate pumping just like any other great form of cardio exercise.

Yet it also challenges your muscles and stimulates the growth of lean muscle mass.If you are looking for a way to really work your lower body muscles while burning tons of fat, spinning is something to definitely consider.

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Great Legs & Core Muscles

Due to the amount of tension placed on the legs during a spinning workout, many people who spin on a consistent basis note that the shape of their legs changes. Their legs become well toned and shapely as muscle replaces fat deposits.They also note that their stomach begins to flatten and they can see muscles emerging around their core. This is a result of the sitting posture that is used during a spinning workout.

Participants are encouraged to squeeze their abdominals and hold their core section tight in order to hold themselves on the seat properly.Not only are shapely, well toned legs and core muscles more visually pleasing, but they are stronger and better able to climb stairs, bend, lift, and carry out other functions of daily life.

Spinning Classes Make Vigorous Exercise

Mental Focus

While the most obvious benefits from spinning are in the physical changes that regular participants go through, many people who spin on a consistent basis report feeling more mentally focused as well. In order to get through an intense spinning class most people need to really focus and concentrate on their body and what they are doing.

This is a great stress-reliever that can help participants center the mind and sweat through some of their problems, and it seems that enhanced concentration carries over into daily life for most people.So, not only can spinning help you burn a ton of calories, lose weight, and shape up your abs and lower body, but it could make you less stressed and more productive as well!

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Spin Training

Back in 1992, after I had been instructing for a few years, I was in the local FBO's office where I worked. I was waiting for one of my students to come back from a solo flight. When my student came in, he looked as though he had just seen a ghost. He was shaking and sweating I asked him what happened.

The answer that I got was one that most flight instructors would not want to hear: "I was practicing stalls in the practice area, and all of a sudden I was upside down, and then just spinning toward the ground I didn't know what to do, but I heard your voice tell me to pull the power back and just let go of the control column, and the plane will stabilize."

If you know anything about small Cessnas, they tend to have a forward CG and will recover if you just let go of the controls for a second-that is, if you are not in a fully developed spin. So that is what the student did. Even more upsetting was when he stated the fact that, once the plane stopped spinning and the nose started to come up, the altimeter was reading about 1,800-1,900 feet.

If you fly in the Phoenix area, you know that the ground elevation is approximately 1,500 feet MSL. So my student recovered about 300 to 400 feet about the ground. This is far below normal traffic patterns. Would you like this to happen to you? Because it can happen to you. Or would you rather have an instructor go over spin entries and recoveries with you?

I was taking aerobatic flight lessons at the time and had practiced plenty of 3- to 4-turn spins, so I got the parachutes on, and up we went. I started demonstrating spins and spin entries, and he just kept saying, "Nope, that is not what happened." It finally dawned on me what had happened, and I asked him. Sure enough, I had hit the nail on the head.

The spin my student got himself into was one of the worst cases you could imagine. He was practicing power-off stalls, so the normal recovery procedure is to lower the nose, add full power, and start retracting flaps ten degrees at a time.

Little did my student know that the plane had started to enter the spin when he added full power. The result was a torque roll that placed the plane upside down at first, then continued to spin with the help of the full-power setting. I didn't think that a 152 was capable of that, but sure enough, it was. So he pulled the power and let go of it, recovering about 400 feet above the ground.

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