Mike led Spinning class last night. Each instructor has their own style and Mike is no exception. His classes are more power and strengh centric. Here is a dramatic over-simplification of last nights class.
1. Lets begin our warmup
2. move to a harder gear
3. move to a harder gear (repeat about 4 more times)
4. you should be feeling warmed up now (in reality, a heavy sweat has already developed)
5. move to a harder gear
6. move to a harder gear (do this for another 25 minutes)
7. barely able to turn the pedals over at more than 30 rpm
8. take all the gears off for a 2 minutes
9. move to a harder gear
10. move to a harder gear (for another 15 minutes.)
11. move to progressively easier gears for about 5 minutes
12. do four short-ish efforts
13. collapse in a sobbing, ball of flesh.

I was ready for class to end.