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Post by GoldenFleece on Jul 24, 2014 18:41:53 GMT -4
People's gone and published an article about Charlize and Sean possibly being engaged. There was a similar sort of story just before Clooney confirmed his news.
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Post by chonies on Jul 25, 2014 9:29:04 GMT -4
Mr. Narm just got home from the gym and said "what the hell is up with spin class? Why are the teachers so mean? Why do they YELL?" Hee. Ahem. I digress. It wouldn't have killed her to just smile. It's kind of juvenile for Ms. Mowry to tell a tabloid. But Charlize is sounding like a jackass as time goes on. On of my friends teaches SPINNING® and she's a yeller in general, although I don't know if it's because she's a K-8 teacher, a mom with rowdy kids, or because of her preferred exercise. And I pretty much agree with your summation about Charlize. Everything looks kind of wrong: Charlize is kind of in the wrong, Ms Mowry is kind of in the wrong, maybe it's because she's female and very pretty, maybe it's easy to believe it because she's approaching the outer fringes of Alec Baldwin territory. Maybe I'm in the wrong for holding a celebrity to a different standard. I was trying to think of celebrities whom I would be eager to defend and couldn't really come up with many, so maybe I have issues.
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Post by jynni on Jul 25, 2014 10:49:53 GMT -4
It's been my experience that many female cycling instructors are either "whoo-ers" or "yellers". The normal pitch of most female voices is sometimes hard to hear over the music so in order to be heard, instructors resort to whoo style cheering or to avoid whoo-cheering, lowering the pitch of their voices but still having to yell to be heard. Male voices tend to naturally sit in a lower range that's easier to hear and carries over the music so usually have an easier time being heard without having to alter their voices much. In both cases, many just aren't aware of the proper way to project their voices, it's just that men have it easier than women when it comes to being heard.
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Post by famvir on Jul 25, 2014 11:26:12 GMT -4
So, not a spinner, but you just go really fast on a bike with 50 other people in the room and the instructor yells WOOH WOOH!!! really loud fequently ?
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Post by chonies on Jul 25, 2014 11:35:59 GMT -4
So, not a spinner, but you just go really fast on a bike with 50 other people in the room and the instructor yells WOOH WOOH!!! really loud fequently ? Not really. It's more like a structured ride on a stationary bike. The bikes are adjustable and the instructor varies the pace--slow, slow and 'uphill', faster, even faster, stand, slower, faster, etc. A decent spin instructor will have a good playlist (hence yelling over the music), and sometimes throws in upper body things. The equivalent would be something like the mechanized programs on a stationary bike (Woodland Path, Mountain Ridge, Country Trail, etc) but with peer pressure camaraderie and music. It's customizable, too. If I'm pooped, I can just pedal at my own pace.
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Post by famvir on Jul 25, 2014 11:57:17 GMT -4
So, not a spinner, but you just go really fast on a bike with 50 other people in the room and the instructor yells WOOH WOOH!!! really loud fequently ? Not really. It's more like a structured ride on a stationary bike. The bikes are adjustable and the instructor varies the pace--slow, slow and 'uphill', faster, even faster, stand, slower, faster, etc. A decent spin instructor will have a good playlist (hence yelling over the music), and sometimes throws in upper body things. The equivalent would be something like the mechanized programs on a stationary bike (Woodland Path, Mountain Ridge, Country Trail, etc) but with peer pressure camaraderie and music. It's customizable, too. If I'm pooped, I can just pedal at my own pace. Ah, so she's like a club DJ, kind of. She controls the music and the pace.
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Post by jynni on Jul 25, 2014 12:03:24 GMT -4
To add to that - a good instructor makes a huuuge difference in the quality of a class and it's one of the reasons places like FlyWheel and SoulCycle can charge $25+ per class. You could have two instructors lead a class with the exact same ride profile but if one of them has customized a playlist and is good at actually instructing the class through the ride, it will be a much more enjoyable experience over the one who just throws on whatever is on their iPod and just tells you when to increase the resistance or stand, etc. The good instructor's class will be over before you know it and in the other class you'll be counting down the minutes till you can get off the bike.
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Post by chonies on Jul 25, 2014 12:22:59 GMT -4
The good instructor's class will be over before you know it and in the other class you'll be counting down the minutes till you can get off the bike. Godddd, this so much. It's part of the thing that inspires a cultlike following among some instructors. I stopped going to one yoga class because I hated the playlist so much.
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Post by prisma on Jul 25, 2014 14:43:42 GMT -4
I've only been to one spin class but it was my idea of what hell would be like. One big long spin class with off tempo music I hate.
I'm a yoga person, but only without music. I'm picky.
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Post by chonies on Jul 26, 2014 10:28:24 GMT -4
I like the idea of spin--I like bike riding, but at the gym I just used stationary bikes as a last resort, or as a way to mix up other cardio for short bursts of time. I think the concept is a good challenge for me, but yeah, the environment needs to be perfectly curated or else it's not fun.
Topic: I stopped watching Arrested Development before Charlize appeared, and I think the only movie I've really seen her in is Young Adult, which was so brilliantly horrifying I think once was enough. She did seem nice in the Wikus Goes to Hollywood clip that was made after District 9, but other than that, to me she's more of a celebrity than anyone whose work I can appreciate in any depth.
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