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Can spinning make you store fat?
 
You have to read this aticle….
 
Many of us know that Spin class is a waste of time (except for CV fitness) and burns up muscle and provides no real body comp changes. Well here is the proof.
 
This is an article by Charles Poliquin that he has in Oxygen when questioned about how he transformed fitness model Chrissy May.
 
http://www.muscledog.com/blog/view/108/CAN_SPINNING_MAKE_YOU_STORE_FAT#
 
What are your thoughts?? I take spin class at least once a week, however I make it a HIIT session

i respect Poliquin and have learned a ton from him, and this is another case where i gotta say i never thought of it that way before but
it makes perfect sense.

i would love to see some studies done to actually show this (im sure it would be easy enough to
find participants given the popularity of spinning), but i would say you
should probably drop your spinning based on what he just said in that
article.
and just because you do an HIIT session doesn’t mean it changes the motion. using his analogy from the blog, you could do HIIT with a fly swatter but it wouldn’t really mean you were working out your triceps any more than normal.

Hey Pete… I totally agree. 

The article does make allot of sense… However, I use to take spinning at least 5 times a week (I know… psycho!!) and I lost alot of fat and shrunk my muscle size which I wanted to do!!. 

 However, I did notice I was hitting a plateau after 2 years of chronic spinning… His article does make allot of sense and now I try to limit my spinning at least once a week only because I enjoy it… I have read many studies stating that spinning may store fat..
 
 I also believe this is very individualized…  
 

Wow, thats crazy! I was never super into spinning but the few times I have done it it seemed like an insane workout. Wonder if the same applies to riding a bike in a really low gear or if it’s different cause you aren’t stationary…

Either way nice find llulko! ^_^