Once you go Spinning, something wonderful happens to your buttocks, legs and heart. You can feel all your muscles working, even in your arms, stomach and chest. Spinning was developed about 10 years ago in a Los Angeles garage by a long-distance cyclist named Johnny Goldberg, who wanted to train without dodging cars on city streets. The concept grew and is now a registered trademark. I spin at The Club 93101 gym, in Santa Barbara, where certified Spinning instructors are stationed on an elevated stage and speak to riders through earphones.
Music accompanies the routines.
Queenie Longley, a co-owner of The Club and a runner, cyclist, aerobics instructor and fitness trainer for 20 years, says Spinning is an exceptional way to achieve fitness. Longley says that most students see changes, like weight loss and muscle tone, in three to five weeks, with a regimen of three or four classes a week. And so I happily spin on. Aside from the definition in my leg and muscles in my arms that I have noticed in recent weeks, I feel stronger and healthier. I sleep better and I am less stressed.