Spinning is No Joke

I tried my first spin class today at the gym. 5:45am, sweating like a pig lol I was less than amazing. It was so hard to keep up and the seats made my butt hurt! (I'm told that's normal & it doesn't get any better for at least a week). My legs felt like they were on fire the whole time & it was a work out just trying to get up and down out of the "saddle" (the bike seat). I didn't want to sit because my butt hurt & I didn't want to stand because my legs were on fire lol what a dilema! I spent most of the class sitting because I decided that was better than my legs being on fire? lol

But it was totally worth it. Great workout -- cardio without feeling like cardio. I recommend it to anyone & yes I will be back on Thursday. One of the girls there gave me some advice & that was "Just do what you can do, if she says add resistance & it's too much, don't add as much." I think Thursday I'm going to keep the resistance low & practice sitting & "standing" on the bike when she says -- we'll see how that goes lol

I also bought a heart rate monitor/calorie burn counter. This one exactly:


Got it at Sports Authority. $59.99. It's water proof up to 50m -- nothing fancy & I haven't used it yet but it's real easy to program & looks pretty simple, not a whole lot of things on the screen to read. That's what I like -- it's simple. I don't need all the bells & whistles.

Official review to follow :)