Biking in Gym

[aicabsolut]

Btw I'm biking like 13.5 miles in 1 hour at around 90 RPM, is that a beginner amount of miles? What is a long bike ride indoors?

Is that on a regular stationary bike? (Pretty hard to be as efficient on those as on a spinner).. If so, I'd say that's doing a pretty good job. Not too beginnerish at all. Before I started spinning, I rode one of those after taking a few weeks off (just walking) b/c of an injury. I felt like I was working so hard, but my HR was only in the low 140s if that, and I was at about 11mph. I'd consider myself cardiovascularly pretty fit but not at all in biking shape at that point.

A "long" ride on a spinner depends on what kind of workout you're doing. It seems to take me forever to warmup, so the first 30-45 min is torture. But after that, I can spend 2 hrs easy. Higher intensity intervals tire me out faster than endurance or steady state taining of course. An hour isn't a long time on an indoor bike but it's sufficient for general fitness I think, especially if you warm up faster than me.

[jllmom]

Yeah it's a regular bike. The gym I'm at only has one true spinner available and 3 other types of bikes: Lifecycle, another set up like a Lifecycle and another more like a spinner/true bike w/petal under you not in front.

But you can take a spinning class, and that's my goal this January.