Strange pain from spinning

[Dogmama]

Glad your problem is solved. I see many new people come into my spin class & TRY wave me off when I want to help them set up their bikes. Tough - they're in my class & they're getting my help. 99% of the time, their seats are too high and too far forward.

Here are three stretches that I recommend on a VERY regular basis:

Inner thigh stretch: Sit on the ground & put your feet together. Your legs should form a diamond. Torso tall, lean forward.

Hip flexor stretch: Assume a very long lunge position. Keeping your front knee behind your ankle, sink down so that your back knee rests on the floor. Tip: a cushion for your knee and something to hold onto is a good thing here.

Glute stretch. Have something to hold onto, like the handlebars of a spin bike. Place one foot over your knee and sit back. Careful not to pull your bike over on you - keep your weight over your hips. For more stretch, point your stretching leg's knee downward.

Hope that helps.

[Catrin]

Glad your problem is solved. I see many new people come into my spin class & TRY wave me off when I want to help them set up their bikes. Tough - they're in my class & they're getting my help. 99% of the time, their seats are too high and too far forward.

Here are three stretches that I recommend on a VERY regular basis:

Inner thigh stretch: Sit on the ground & put your feet together. Your legs should form a diamond. Torso tall, lean forward.

Hip flexor stretch: Assume a very long lunge position. Keeping your front knee behind your ankle, sink down so that your back knee rests on the floor. Tip: a cushion for your knee and something to hold onto is a good thing here.

Glute stretch. Have something to hold onto, like the handlebars of a spin bike. Place one foot over your knee and sit back. Careful not to pull your bike over on you - keep your weight over your hips. For more stretch, point your stretching leg's knee downward.

Hope that helps.

These sound like some of the stretching exercises we do as well. The best we could figure is that the smaller Spinner bikes brought out a problem related to my leg length - one leg is slightly longer than the other. The seat was high enough, but for whatever reason I probably wasn't getting a full range of motion and my hip was complaining. I've been taking 3-4 classes a week since the end of September, and this was the first real problem so it has to be it.

Things have been fine now for two classes, so that must have been it...whew. Now that riding weather is here I am dropping half of my spinning classes so I can play on my real bike I am keeping two of the four classes I've been attending.

[OakLeaf]

99% of the time, their seats are too high and too far forward.

hmmmmmm...

Speaking as someone who doesn't ride spin bikes unless I really need cardio and can't find another alternative - and who always sets my seat "too high" when leg extension is the only test -

it's because of those 175 mm crankarms. The saddle is actually both "too high" when you look at my leg extension at the bottom of the pedal stroke, and "too low" when you look at my knee flexion at the top.

Speaking only for my own knees and not for anyone else's, with those 175s, it's a lot safer for me to set my saddle where I can barely reach the pedals with my toes at the bottom, than to set it where my knees are in excessive flexion at the top.

I wonder if the manufacturers ever think about this - especially considering that most people in spinning classes are women. It might even be worth contacting the manufacturers, as something they could take into account in a future redesign.