Tuesday Workout

I'm traveling for work this week and am out in LA. Not a bad palace to be when it's 30 and snowing back home in Chicago but getting in the workouts on the road can be challenging. Fortunately the hotel gym isn't the standard hotel gym consisting of a 30 year old treadmill and a smith machine in the space of a large closet. My company is putting me up in a pretty classy Hyatt that has teamed up with Equinox for their gym. It's $20 a day but the company covers that. Today's planned workout:

Warm Up	15min @ Z1 w/ 2 x 1min one leg drills
Work Set	2 x 12' (4') @ Z4-5 w/ 4min recovery
Cool Down	15min @ Z1

Today's modified "on the road" workout:

Spin Class
15min Run @ Z1

I'm not a fan of spin classes as a way to train for the bike leg of a triathlon. All but one instructor that I've come across wouldn't know what to do or how to train for any sort of bike race. In short, they're good aerobics classes that happen to use a spin bike. The times that I'm stuck in a spin class I usually try to feel out the instructor before class to get an idea of what I'm in for. When I asked this guy what sort of class he teaches he was taken off guard and answered "Well the music is really good". Right then I knew I was in trouble.

Was this guy serious? The first impulse that he has about the class that he teaches was good music??!? It was a 45 minute reminder of all the things that I don't like about spinning. Complete with jumps, running on the bike, and push ups. I will give this guy credit though, he did keep reminding the class to relax their shoulders, use their core to stabilize, and keep their hands light on the handle bar.

Ultimately I was able to construct a pretty good workout by cranking up the resistance every time they stood up and recovering when they sat down.

I'm not looking forward to Thursdays spin.