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6 Tips to make spring spin classes more enjoyable!

1)  Schedule it.  90% is just showing up!  Remember, you can share your ride card with anyone in your family over 15 years old.

 

2) Regular cardio gives you great energy, burns calories and reduces your chances of sickness and disease..... Keep this in mind when you're making your commitment!

 

3)  Take breaks during class.  We carry tension in our back, neck and shoulders....in spinning and in life.  Take periodic breaks in the class to sit up, roll the shoulders, relax and gather yourself.

 

4) Enjoy the musicThis is a rare chance to enjoy a respite from your daily stress.  Embrace it.

 

5)  Have fun!   Seriously....the beauty of a great spin class is the magical combination of a great workout, great music and great fun.  Enjoy it

 

 6)  Eat right after class!   Something small, preferable with protein...it will  keep your appetite from viciously attacking you later in the day. 

 

What makes an indoor cycling class great

If you've been a Spynergy rider for a while, you know our basic philosophy:  Great cardio exercise and all the amazing health benefits that come with it  should be FUN.  Wow, that sounds simple, and darnit it is simple.  Only the most disciplined and dour among us can commit to regular workouts that are boring.  Maybe for a few weeks.....but for a lifetime?  I don't think so.

As a Spynergy rider, your experience should be guided by 3 things:  1) a teacher that motivates and energizes, 2) an environment that is pleasant and 3) a convenient, efficient experience when it comes to scheduling and paying.  If we can provide those 3 things, we are succeeding.  Did we mention we want it to be fun?

How we doin?  Would love to hear your comments.

Spin®-a-thon at Spynergy for Haiti Relief, local church

 

A local church here in town, the Wellesley Friends Meeting, has asked us to raise money for a "sister" church of theirs:  a Hatian-American congregation in Waltham called the New Covenant Church of Cambridge.  The Haitian disaster has struck them in a very direct and personal way as you can imagine.  To read about their gut-wrenching plight, click here for a recent article from the Waltham Daily News Tribune.

 

On Saturday, I visited with Reverand Thomas St. Louis in the basement of his Church where he has been sleeping for the past week trying to console, minister and organize help.  You can hear the exhaustion in his voice in this VIDEO we shot with him.  

He is planning to personally accompany a delivery of supplies that is now being assembled.  They have lots of clothes, but need money for desperately needed medical supplies, food and other assistance.  Every little bit helps.  Please help us help Reverand St. Louis.

Alex, Bill, Melissa, and Andy will teach 4 consecutive 30-minute classes:  11:00, 11:30, 12:15 and 12:45.  Each with awesome and inspirational music (as always!).  You can sign-up on- line like any other class, your ride card will not be charged.....but we ask for a minimum donation of $20 per class (and of course will always accept more).   If you want to spin for a full hour....book two consecutive classes!  Donations should be checks made payable to " Haiti Earthquake Relief Assistance Fund".   Click here to view schedule and book your classes.  Booking these classes will not impact your ride card, Donations will be collected at the studio.....thank you , thank you , thank you.

Are you interested in Wine?

I am.  But in January, I give up the beloved grape nectar as part of a cleansing process that I have commited myself to each year for the past 14 years.  Why cleanse?  If you happen to have observed any of my consumption and dietary behavior during the months of November and December, you would understand why the January cleanse is both necessary, and in fact quite easy (at least for the first few weeks). 

While I can't drink during the month of January, I can in fact read about wine.  Not the same, I know, but it can be quite entertaining.  The blogoshpere is ripe with wine blogs of various kinds, I have found a few writers who are both knowledgeable as well as entertaining.

WineZag is published by Adam Japko, a long time friend, former colleague and as passionate a wine enthusiast as you will ever meet.  Adam has a great sensiblity about the enjoyment of wine, but he also does it in a down to earth way.  His favorite wines are wines that are great values..........and he knows how to find them.

Wellesely Wine Press is published by Robert Dwyer.  He brings a local sensibility living right around here in Wellesley, and is also highly focussed on value.

Both of these blogs have a broad variety of information about virtually any aspect of the wine universe you might be interested in.  Right now I am voraciously READING, I can't wait til February when I can resume CONSUMING.  I love calories out (spin class and spinning), but I also love calories in (wine and food).

Do you know other Wine Blogs?  Love to hear from you.

Who Says I Can't? Spynergy rider tells his amazing story

We love this title and this attitude.  Jothy Rosenberg, a long time visitor to Spynergy --- has written a new book.  Who Says I Can't?  is the incredible story of a two-time cancer survivor,  amputee and entrepreneur who fought back, survived and thrived.  After losing his leg to cancer as a youth, he went on to get a PhD in computer science, to author 2 technical books, to found 6 high tech companies, to ride in the Pan-Masscahusetts Challenge bike-a-thon supporting the Dana-Farber cancer institute 7 times, to swim 16 times from Alcatraz to San Francisco to support Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, and to participate in many other sports and fundraising activities.  Click here for more info, or visit the Who Says I Can't facebook page.