Spin classes - do they help?

[awomaninsane]

It probably is a good workout, although I doubt if it builds leg muscles as such.

Spinning does build leg muscle, I have well defined and developed muscles in my thighs and lower legs and this is entirely down to spinning. Just my two penneth

 

[Citius]

Spinning does build leg muscle, I have well defined and developed muscles in my thighs and lower legs and this is entirely down to spinning. Just my two penneth

Definition is not the same as hypertrophy.

 

[awomaninsane]

But it is the same as developed. Have you ever been spinning @Citius ?

 

[awomaninsane]

But it is the same as developed. Have you ever been spinning @Citius ?

 

[Citius]

But it is the same as developed. Have you ever been spinning @Citius ?

Yes, I have. Any exercise will 'develop' muscle to some extent. But because cycling is sub-maximal (as has been reiterated on here a nauseating number of times), it will not result in significant hypertrophy. Arnie didn't get his leg muscles by doing spin classes.

 

[awomaninsane]

I see. Who wants legs like him anyway!

 

[awomaninsane]

I see. Who wants legs like him anyway!

 

[awomaninsane]

Why the heck are my posts showing twice? Goddammit.

 

[awomaninsane]

Why the heck are my posts showing twice? Goddammit.

 

[screenman]

Why the heck are my posts showing twice? Goddammit.

It is an echo.