Do you spin every day?

[roguedog]

V - Thanks for the insight to your training plan. Very interesting. Man you are a dedicated cyclist.

Equus
Thanks for explanation. Things to chew on...

Here's my sitch:

V, I don't know how you can get in all those hours. If I don't workout in the morning I prob won't workout at all. I get into work around 9ish and leave around 7-8ish or later.

So the best I can do is to go to spin class. So far I've been pretty much doing every other day. However, if I want to go more often am I harming my "training" or worse harming myself by not letting my body recover?

V - I get what you're saying about it being weird to do a recovery ride in spin class. Knowing me I'd just go for it anyway.. and thus it isn't really a recovery ride at all.

Also, is spinning an all body workout or really just lower body?

Anyway, so these are my thoughts and queries.

[Veronica]

I leave work promptly at 3 PM unless I have meeting and then I b!tch. I do all my extra work, lesson plans, grading etc. either early in the morning after I ride in the evening.

It is hard to do that every day. Like I said, that's the plan. It doesn't mean I always follow it. Yesterday's recovery ride was mowing my lawn. I have a push reel mower and a hill to mow so it's not as bad as it sounds. And I've been a real slacker since December. But I only have two weeks to get ready for a 300 K... so I'm a little more dedicated right now. But I couldn't stick with that year round. It became not fun, hence the slacking.

I haven't done spin class in a gym for a few years. I found I could do the spin classes every day. Some days I just didn't always do what the instructor wanted. Some days I'd be more intense, sometimes less and I was always off to the side, not in front so I could do my own thing without being a distraction. The instructors were pretty cool about it. But we were a pretty tight knit group and it was always the same ladies in the class.

V.