The Inner Sanctum

 Have you noticed how much spin class has changed? The new monitors adding Watts to the equation makes the ride quantifiable instead of just experiential. What does that mean though? Well if you’re like most of us in Woodbury you know we take our sessions very seriously. That’s not to say we don’t have fun because God knows that we do but now we have added results into our efforts and can measure our progress from day to day.

 I’ve tried to tell myself in vain not to look but inevitably I find my eyes pushing the light button and when I see my Watts go over the 300 mark it makes me feel almost Herculean and the satisfaction of my own inner sanctum makes me glad I did. Although the downside is we can get obsessed with the numbers and lose sight that we are there to have fun and just like no two snowflakes are alike neither is one class just like another. So there will be days we feel better than the day before and we can’t let ourselves get disappointed because our “numbers” were off. 

We have had some changes in personnel at EQ but Kristen maintains a top-notch staff even if some of our favorite personalities have left for down the street. If you are an EQ member a true EQ member there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home. And with the likes of Dana Mancini, Kristen (K2) Finello, Carolyn Mellace, Damian Vella and yes David Cooper there will never be a dearth of talent at our club. Ride on! 

Figure It Out!

I have decided that this simple phrase from the dearly departed would theme my writings this day. I will start with KSC because those were the words from Kristen that she echoed from her father in her 8 am session.   It was easy to tell from her countenance they continue to inspire her every day of her life. And now they will mine.  

When I heard them this morning in my favorite spin class, I couldn’t help but think of adopting this is as my new mantra for 2014. Figure it out! We all have missions in life but more importantly according to Maslow also have to sate our primary desires those being physiological, a feeling of security, being loved and an air of confidence.  But at the top of the Triangle: Self-Actualization is where people like us spend much of our time.   I so identify with Maslow’s hierarchy of human motivation and our ability to be creative, spurn prejudice, maintain a sense morality and be able to problem solve sit at the top of my innate desires.  In this geometric shape for this writer is the ability to be non-judgmental and see both sides of any argument. In this way I can limit resentment, fear and not  worry  what other people think about me.  

We can merely go through the motions in life sometimes as it’s simply the easier softer way but if we take classes in the Lavender Palace we just cannot! It is here that we can model like Maslow did our own hierarchy of what we want to accomplish each time we climb aboard our new Schwinn’s.  Spin class can be the blueprint for how we spend the other 23 hours as if each day was our last. After all we think we have a future whether we are young or old but in fact we only have today. 

We all have situations in life but if we ask ourselves 50 years from now how important is it? Most will answer not very if at all. Most days it never looks the same even the next day.  It is for that very reason that we must live each day to our maximum potential and not get self-absorbed in the trivialities that can sometimes plague us in our every day.  

Figure it out! We have a powerful computer inside that cranial cavity we merely have to ask and the solutions magically appear. It’s as if Merlin resides in our cerebral cortex. Our iPhones might be smart but it is our brain that can most times figure it out.  

It was a great class today and now that I know Watt’s What my fitness will reach new levels under the guiding light of our beloved instructors. And they are beloved make no mistake because it is through them that we can Figure It Out!