How & Why to Use the Spinner Exercise Bike

Video Transcript

" Hi, my name is Brian Langey; I am the owner of On the Road Personal Training and Athleticism Training and Performance. On behalf of Expert Village, you can reach me at ontheroadpt.com. Today we are talking about the spinner bike. The spinner bike is the bike that most of you have seen if you go to the clubs and you workout in those exercise-spinning classes. Although different than a traditional upright or a recumbent bike, but more common to a traditional road bike. These bikes have very little programming to them at all, the only options that you have for the bike is adjustments and to increase the resistance on the flywheel. Again, this is more of a racing simulation bike or a bike that you would use in a spinning class in a health club. To mount an exercise bike, like a traditional bike, you would put one foot on the foot pedals and then swing your leg over kind of like you are mounting a horse. A spinner bike has clips on them that help keep your feet more solidly locked in or you can actually buy pedals where you can clip your specialized shoes into the pedal themselves. It is also great for pushing and pulling action as well so you work the glutes, the hams, the quads, everything is worked on a spinning bike. Again as far as adjusting the tension on it, there is a tension dial in the middle going to the right is going to increase the resistance and going to the left is going to decrease it. If you are in a hard workout, most spinning bikes, the flywheel stays engaged all of the time so rather than just stop pedaling you just push on the brake and that stops the flywheel from moving. "