Originally Posted by
caloso
Does wonders for your aerobic capacity, not so much for your bike handling skills.
I live in Michigan, and have the same inability to hit the road. The bike trainer is too boring, so I spin 3 days a week, and lift and do aerobics at the gym 3 days as well.
I find spinning is helping me both aerobicaly, as well as improving some additional leg strength, and agility. The spin instructors mix it up between slow and hard, and light and quick and I like the varity. I use a heart monitor to insure I get the aerobic workout I want, which means continual resistance increases as I improve strength.
In the past couple years, I have felt much stronger in the spring adding spinning to my winter regime, than only the gym rat routine.
I hope we both have an early spring--