My First Spinning Class
So Amol and I finally made it to a spinning class last night. I've been fairly motivated to go to the gym lately since none of my clothes fit properly around the waist line and I've eaten nothing but Thanksgiving leftovers for the last six days. Also, the whole "if you bail on a class, you have to wear your bathing suit out the next time we hang out, be it at a movie theater, restaurant or karaoke bar" really helps me make it class.
Anyway, I had emailed Julia to see if she wanted to join us, and she replied with:
Oh my god...cycling is MADNESS. I think I've only gone through a whole cycling class once. How do you do it so the seat doesn't hurt your nether regions?
And I must ask, seriously, HOW DO YOU DO IT SO THE SEAT DOESN'T HURT YOUR NETHER REGIONS?????
The first thing I said to Amol, to his horror, when the class was finally over was, "Christ, my kooch hurts."
I think a jock strap is going on my Xmas wish list.
Anyway, I had emailed Julia to see if she wanted to join us, and she replied with:
Oh my god...cycling is MADNESS. I think I've only gone through a whole cycling class once. How do you do it so the seat doesn't hurt your nether regions?
And I must ask, seriously, HOW DO YOU DO IT SO THE SEAT DOESN'T HURT YOUR NETHER REGIONS?????
The first thing I said to Amol, to his horror, when the class was finally over was, "Christ, my kooch hurts."
I think a jock strap is going on my Xmas wish list.
posted by S at 11:15 AM
10 Comments:
it's awful, like, hurts when you pee for the rest of the day awful.
I *bludgeoned-heart with NO NO NO written all over it* Spinning
My cooch hurts just from talking about it. Is that bad?
Julia - well, it doesn't hurt THAT bad for me, but let's just say, I'm not going to be surprised if I give birth to a bicycle seat in nine months. If I do, I shall name it Schwinn-reet.
Megan - You have a very sympathetic kooch!
Oh yeah, I should have warned you about the cooch/butt bone pain. I think I just said something like "It feels good when you stop." Real helpful, this one.
I've taken a lot of spinning classes, and yeah, that sucks.
You can get this big old lady style bicycle seat filled with gel, and that helps A LITTLE. The thing that helps the most though, is to keep doing it. Seriously. And that's why it sucks. If you do it regularly, like twice a week, and don't skip a class, then eventually it gets better. I don't know how that works--whether your body just gets used to the pain, or your cooch/butt bone becomes callused or something. I don't know. But I do know, that if ou do it regularly, it becomes less painful after a few weeks.
The problem though, is that if you miss a week or two--like say, you go on vacation--you start over with the cooch/butt pain thing. I was doing it pretty regularly--well, I was going once a week to spinning. I had gone several weeks, and I had reached a point where I didn't feel like crying everytime I sat down after class--and then a missed like two weeks. I went back once, and the pain was all back again--and that was the end of spinning for me. I couldn't handle going through all the time it would take to make the pain stop again.
I hate spinning. No exercise is worth that kind of hurt. When I can do an hour of step aerobics, jog, elliptical trainer, swim, or lift weights--all things that don't hurt me--instead, why would I spin? There are way too many other things that DON'T hurt my nether regions for me to take another spinning class.
huh huh calloused cooch... huh huh...
I suppose in 20 yrs when i have horrible heart disease from never going to spinning classes, then i can say, "huh huh..." all i want....
"calloused cooch" sounds so awful...
Do you really think you get used to it, or do you think it's just a matter of adjusting the seat properly? I was convinced that I was just sitting in it wrong...
Btw Melissa, is that pic of goat? Cuz it matches Pig!
yeah, it's a goat. andy calls me goat. cuz i chew the edge of his sleeve when i get nervous or bored. i'm a weird girl.
calloused cooch (does it have two l's??? i can't spell) reminds me about jessmat deciding to think up the nastiest words she could in college. i feel bad posting the result i remember her coming up with. it had "crust," and another "c" word.... if you recall. so much for the beauty of alliteration...
I don't think it's a metter of adjusting the seat properly--I don't know what it is. But, it's definitely something that happens over time.
I agree with Julia's comment about I*bludgeoned-heart with NO NO NO written all over it* Spinning. I hate it.
Haha, alliteration is nasty now.
Post a Comment
<< Home