Tried my first "spinning" class today at the gym. For those who aren't hip to the lingo, Spinning (I think the term is copywrighted to Bally's but has become "Band-Aid"ified into the common term) is sort of a group fitness aerobic stationary cycle thingy. Which sounds incredibly silly, I'll admit, but then almost all gym activity involves doing things that, if examined objectively, appear quite similar to what a hamster does with his wheel, for which we laugh at him.
But its different, and a pretty intense workout. While I consider myself confident in my sexuality, there is something a little uncomfortable for me in the Fascist Aerobic Two-step. Unfair and irrational, I admit it, but hey, its there, and the spinning class felt a little less "odd" for me.
It was recommended to me by a cow-orker who said that the other spinning classes he had been to he didn't like, but the one on Tuesday (with Teresa) was a lot bettter, less fascist and with good music. And, in all the time I've spent *near* aerobics classes in the gym part of the gym, its the first time I've heard Front 242 used (Headhunter was the song), which was so incredibly cool, that Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" was almost passe' by the time it came around, and Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday" was no surprise at all. (I just used a French word to piss Andy off). Not that it was all industrial, there was also some standard pop and punk and overall a pretty cool mix, almost none of them the sort of song you'd expect from such a class.
So I'll probably go again, although I hurt in brand new places with great intensity, and so it probably won't be until next week.
"I just used a French word to piss Andy off"
Tête de merde.
Je suis un pomme de terre.
Please repeat. Repetez sil vous plait.
So how do you work out on an exercycle? (or stationery cycle, whatever they're called.)
話ã™ãƒ•ãƒ©ãƒ³ã‚¹èªžã¯æ„šã‹ã§ã‚る。
Its a lot of standing up and sitting down and changing the tensioner thingy. And pain.
Sam, I can't tell if your swearing at me or speaking French or both. All the same to me, though, I guess.
Why is Laura a potato?
Any why does this comment thingy screw up the characters every time I try to cut and paste from another source? What fonts does this thing support? Nothing I use, I assume, with my M$ Office and my Altavista Babelfish...
J'ai un poulet fou dans ma chaussure.
I believe you can use the ascii codes to get the fonts or use the font tag to get foreign characters.
I have no idea what fonts are or aren't supported.
Hahahaha! A mad chicken!!!! In your shoe!!!! Bwahahahaha!!!
Est-ce que seulment le poulet dans ton chaussure, ou est-ce que tu as porter le chaussure avec le poulet en meme temps?
(I'm not sure if my verb tenses are correct. It might just be est-ce que tu port le chaussure etc....)
Huh. That's interesting. Last night my hiragana and kanzii was showing up when I posted. Eh. I said "The French that you speak is foolish" in Japanese. But the fun is ruined now.
whoops. I just realized I used the verb "to have" (avoir) instead of the verb "to be" (etre) in my french sentence. (I think it should be "est-ce que tu est porter...") Damn, that's a first-year mistake too. Whatever happened to my savoir faire? Oh well, it's not like anyone cares (or should care, besides me.)
It works if you read it on the article page (click the "Continue Reading ...." Link), but it doesn't display properly in the little comment window. Weird. I wouldn't normally notice, since I don't usually go to the full article page (being how I wrote it).
Hey, look at that! I works.
"French which you speak is foolish."
Yes, yes it is.
Aerobics classes are GAY. Go out and run in the mud.
With how much it's been raining, mud is readily available. Might as well run while the mud is good!
Le poulet fou est toujours dans ma chaussure sans se soucier si je la porte ou pas.
ah, Je comprends. Pauvre Lenny, vous etes perdu.
Ahh, soo desu neh, mina-tachi no gai goukou no kotobah wah choyoto omoshiroi darou to omou. Da ka ra,
Parlez en anglais si vous voulez tous les personne (sp?) ici les comprendre.
Onegaishimasu.
Oh, and spinning is a serious kick in the head. I'd rather walk on hot sand carrying bricks in a backpack than do another spinning class, it makes one feel so inferior.
'course, being a tubby bitch helps with that a bit as well.
C-.
Well, its a good thing I don't have that "tubby bitch problem"... (Sigh) OK, fine.
While I could understand the inferiority thing, the class I went to wasn't quite as bad on that score. But I didn't go this week as I was at work until 7. (Convenient excuse though it may be)