Have you all been to or heard of Cyclebar? If not, it is an indoor spin class that has loud music and lights. Honestly it is pretty cool. My wife likes to go to it and I've tagged along a few times. It is severely marketed and attended by women as there were like 4 dudes in the class of 45. Most of the women there are like cycling models or something - holy shit so much yoga pants.
But of course, there are the femayos. I had the misfortune of sitting next to one during the last class. Probably 100 pounds overweight, decked out in nice athletic wear (those yoga pants that have slits on the sides but when your fat it looks like sausage escaping its casing) and exuding this personality that she was some sort of athlete. She kept doing way too much stretching beforehand - like she was trying to prove she can touch her toes or something. Although it's hard to explain I could just tell she thought she was hot shit.
So the class starts and she is keeping up pretty good. Each bike is numbered and there are live stats on the monitors in the front of the room. So I can see, based on the number, how she is doing in relation to the class. Cyclebar seems to favor resistance more than anything in regards to your ranking. The instructor tells the class to turn up or turn down the resistance throughout the class. Well this fat just keeps churning along with a high resistance the majority of the class. I assume fats can use more resistance because there weight pushes down on their legs a lot more than a regular person? So, she starts in the top 5 of the class.
Then she hits a wall and within a few minutes falls to the bottom 5 of the class. She was panting so fucking hard it was uncomfortable for everyone around. She ends up coming in like 39th place or something.
I'm going to go ahead a toot my own horn here because it has never happened to me before...I finished first overall. Not really sure if there was a point to this story but the smugness of any fat doing a workout they think they are pros at just absolutely drives me crazy.
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[–] DethLeppard 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
No, fats can’t use more resistance. They just have no idea how to gauge effort, so they go for the moon in a failed attempt to show all the skinny bitches how their fat equals strength. Obviously, fat is not strong and as soon as their heart rate goes anaerobic, they crater. You probably finished first because you are a guy and female bike racers don’t set foot in Cyclebar. No offense, but it’s cardio targeted toward bougie housewives...as evidenced by your observation of the composition of the class attendees. I’m sure it’s still fun and I’m glad you were able to contribute to everyone smashing fatty’s “golden confidence” though. Good times!
[–] CowboyDancer 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Pretty much all group fitness classes tend to be majority females and spin is no exception, so it's not exactly a fair competition for a guy unless you are really out of shape. That's kind of what doesn't really interest me in the competition based ones like flywheel.. There are probably a few dozen cycle classes but the one I go to is my most "safe haven from fatties" location. There are at most 1-2 smallfats in any class of 45-60 and no deathfats. Even my regular gym has 2 deathfats :(.
[–] EffYourDuckAss 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
It probably went home via Starbeetus and McDick's and then wrote a long drawn-out blog about coming last, and how it's all the fault of those lucky thin people in the class.
[–] ilikefish 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Or they'd lie and say they were top 5 while not including that it didn't last long and finished bottom 5.
[–] Whitemail 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I do exercise biking by myself, and it's more of a standard, upright bike. I just like the clock on it and the digital resistance button.
[–] aretemis 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I do biking myself. It's more of a standard bicycle. I just like the hands-free resistance adjust changed by the slope of the terrain.
[–] Whitemail ago
I meant I ride an exercise bike, not a real bike. I hate real biking. It's boring and complicated and the resistance of my own body weight makes it more like a low weight endurance exercise rather than cardio. On an exercise bike all I have to do is pay attention to the time and control the music I'm listening to.
[–] pycckaya 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Oh god, I've been meaning to post about cyclebar fats for a while now. I used to go to spin classes there quite a lot and there usually would be one or two fats per class of around 30ish. The lazy ones would normally sit towards the back of the class, so that you can't see them very well. The 'confident' fats sat in the front row, which was very comical (there are mirrors on the front wall of the class, so you see everyone/everything). One, those poor bikes (no wonder some of them were wobbly) and two I was always worried that one day a fat would have a stroke or a heart attack in the class and keel over. Thankfully I haven't witnessed it yet and I joined a Peloton 'cult' so no more dealing with fats in spin classes.