Hi! So with the cycling season winding to a close, I'd like to re-purpose this blog around one of my passions, the passion that I'm choosing to focus on at this point in my life, which is fitness. Now, fitness can be a scary topic but I'm not going to write about anything scary. This is just my personal journey through fitness mixed with a bit of humor and sarcasm. I'm going to try to highlight resources that help me along the journey. During this first phase, I'm going to be focusing on weight loss. During the cycling season I actually put on a good bit of weight. That may seem odd since I was doing so much biking, but we'll get into that topic later.
Today what I want to focus on is one of my favorite new spots, my cycling studio, Cycology Fitness. Cycology is a dedicated spinning studio. I love cycling, and I think it's a great way to get in shape, especially if you're trying to build cardio capacity and/or lose weight, because it's so low impact. A spin class is an interesting thing, and I may write a whole blog post about that. It may seem like you just get on a bike and ride, but I can tell you that isn't the case. There's nothing wrong with just getting on a bike and riding of course, and if you are starting from fitness square one, by all means! For me, I wanted a bit more training/coaching/rigor, and I found it here. They use the Performance IQ system, which is a heart-rate-based training method (I may also write a blog entry about that!) where you can see your performance up on a big screen in front, tracked through heart rate sensing equipment on your body. It's a great atmosphere and the owners, Jana and Johnny, do a great job with keeping the place clean and professional. They teach a lot of the classes themselves but their other instructors are awesome as well. Some of the keys are music selection, intensity of emotion, and a sense of professional training - which means a guided experience where you move through the bands of heart rate intensity in a guided way. I know it's helped me a lot, especially with building capacity, and I couldn't have even gotten as far as I have without them!
