#1 REASON TO TAKE AN INDOOR CYCLING CLASS: "JOY"

On my blog - Mixes - there are no pictures of half naked men and women. But I do have this thing for putting cuttie doggies in my inspirational meme's. Why is that? Random? What do they have to do with spinning? Nope... its about JOY! That's what.

Dogs make me happy.

Seriously happy.

And that's reason number 1 internet reader!

Why pack that bag, go to the gym, get on that bike, WORK BLOODY HARD, get off SWEATY, go home, go more laundry!, be sore probably in the beginning! It's JOY. You will feel JOY. Not all the time. This is not crack. This is real life! But if you show up it will happen. The music, the instructors voice, the flow, the body in motion and BOOM - you are gone for a minute, for 5, and maybe one day the class will just end and you will be asking to sign up for the next!

Baby steps but I promise... if you work it ... it will work!

#2: Emotional Fitness

Yes... that other fitness. Where do you go when you had a crap day. The bar? The fridge? The pity pot? How do you let "it" go... what ever "it" is?

Quick... 3..2..1... flash. This is your life!

Without coping tools we will always go wrong. At least I do. So having a routine. A habit. A place to go to that you can "let go" is not a nice little get fit thing.

Its a freaking "make your life better thing." ​

I am not a doctor, a psycho-doc, nor social worker - but I can say this there is some truth that we can and should sweat some stuff off. Sorry to all those who say don't sweat the small stuff! I have to!!!! Stuff pisses me off. And denying them does not help!

But getting on the bike. And just going for it. And "burning" them way... one by one. I'll tell you this. It's seldom that I finish a Profile that I stop angry, sad or depressed.

I'm CLEAN. REPEAT!!! CLEAN!

I FEEL CLEAN. The SWEAT has washed some of the crap in my life away!

(... now don't go nuts with this... if you have serious heart issues... talk!! Find a friend and a doctor ok! )

#3 Reason To Never Again Miss your Spin Class

​Legs. Ours society is so vain. Biceps. Breasts enhancements. Six packs. And guess what - no judgement - if those things mean a lot to you who the heck am I to judge. But its all so top heavy isn't it. But on the bike we go low. The FOUNDATION.

Where does all the power come from in your life?

I am a gym rat. I go and see the top heavy dudes who MUST use machine and tools as levers because below the belt there is - well - not much going on. 🙂 ha...

In cycling we build is amazing power machine. Both cardio and leg and core strength. And I say this because with this foundation you now have the FOUNDATION for other sports and activities. The ENGINE is there. I feel confident. I can walk into Zumba and be ok (I would look weird) or skip or do some martial arts. Big powerful engine.

But back to power... power from the ground up. ​Power from the inside out. Power not to lift a weight but to sit in a "feeling" - that my friends - is a form of meditation and true strength- cycling will teach you to become comfortable with modern societies enemy - being "uncomfortable" - which brings us to.....# 4

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#4 Reason - Your Soft and It's Time to Get a Hard Ass

My dad was a blue collar guy. Hard hands. Hard words. Hard life. ​Sore backs. Sore everything as far as I could see. But he NEVER missed a shift.

NEVER.

Are you missing you LIFE?

Many of us in our lives are soft. We are living in padded cells of luxury. Never cold. Never hot. Never working so hard to feel sore. But never rested. Lots of food! But are we really hungry? Hungry like we spent the day climbing? Or lost in the woods? Or Paddling the river?

I have theory that we need adversity. Without it we loose something. I don't know. There is an inner power that we all have that gets lost. It's like a plant you keep inside. It looks strong. But put it outside and if the weather turn - bye bye. You need to slowly condition it to the outside environment.

Humans are not plants of course. But indoor cycling will push you. You will be asked to explore this space of being "uncomfortable." This is not pain. A quick way to separate the two would be to say that pain persists but discomfort quickly goes away. So as example if you ride HARD and you get really uncomfortable and slow down... in a few sec's it goes away.... you might be tired. Now pain. It stays. We never look for nor ride in pain.

But over time you condition yourself to ride harder and harder. And that will bring more and more uncomfortable feelings!​ They don't go AWAY! You just keep pushing harder friends! And this is WONDERFUL! Outside of the physical conditioning we are conditioning the MIND. Learning to sit with feelings. Not SOFT, EASY, PAMPERED FEELINGs.

NO

​The BURN. The Knowledge the this will be this way for the next 10 min and you WANT THAT. BRING IT. The will to power in FULL effect. That confidence in the breath!

You will not die. Not today anyway.

Hint: THIS IS LIFE... its supposed to be uncomfortable so we can feel it!​

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#5 Reason To Ride as Often as you Can!

Why do people go to movie in the theatre when they can sit at home? Or hit concerts? Restaurants for that matter? I'm just a freaking instructor but I can tell you this people want to be a part of, one of many - involved!!! I'm sure there is a fancy word. Maybe. But I like to keep it simple. We are a TRIBE.

Welcome home.

Humans have always lived in tribes as far as I know. Since the beginning. But life now is so freaking BIG. Big nations. Big companies. Big Brother.

Where do I fit? Do you know?

Families are broken often. Friendships... do i need to go on.

We need a TRIBE...... so

​.... you will sit in darkened rooms. And Ride. And Sweat. One of many. The music is the real master NOW. It is the soundscape. The texture physics calls time. We ride in, on and through her towering heights of joy and anger - through valleys of why - and flats of promise. The beat bangs out the pace. A collective heartbeat that was forgotten outside. Every song a new horizon. Found in the struggle to be here - being still gives FREEDOM to move inside - there is place to go. And reminds us that there was only really one - place to be. Lost on this highway. But not alone. As it always was, could and should have been. Where all true roads go... inside and out...

See you all in class! Be badass! ​

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