This evening myself and Lorraine attended a free Wattbike taster session 😀
Was kinda expecting 40 minutes of talking and 20 minutes of biking.
It wasn't the case at all and was rather fun.
Us ladies in the session outnumbered the gents 4 - 3.
The instructor asked which of the ladies was fittest, Lorraine volunteered me so I was put onto a Pro Wattbike, the difference between pro and normal is the gearing, I have no idea how much difference there is though.
Once all the bells and whistles of displays on the bikes were explained the instructor got us to keep a cadence of between 80 and 90 rpm and every minute he told us to dial up the resistance until we were working in the next zone up, we went up to zone 5 and then back down again. Zone 5 was quite hard work, after a bit of recovery we did the same again but for 2 minutes in each zone, this time we went up to zone 6 and back down again, zone 6 got me sweating quite a bit!
I also found out my left leg is doing approx 55% of the work compared to my right leg most of the time.. ah well!
My legs were a bit wobbly when the session was over, must have worked harder than I thought.
A fun, interesting and informative session, they run 6 week courses for £66 and would be helpful over winter however £11 per sesh is kind of off-putting especially as they have Wattbikes at the local gym I tested out a few days ago, a gym membership works out more value for money as I would have access to Wattbikes at all times as well as other gym equipment and unlimited classes (including spin).
Part of me is tempted as their courses would be very useful for structured training.
