lar among the masses is Spinning.One reason for the popularity of spinning, according to instructor McAteer is because it allows individuals to go at their own pace, so triathletes can (and do) share classes with lawyers and lobbyists. Classes mix serious bike racers with heart patients in their fifties and sixties (5). As this new class of fitness people emerge, one problem that is common among them is that they are limited what work-outs they can do depending on and individuals coordination and injuries. In this sense, spinning is user-friendly and it accomodates most anybody. Almost everyone knows how to ride a bike and the no-impact nature is increasingly welcome for baby boomers (3). Another aspect of spinning is that it is designed for people who want results in the quickest way--simply speaking, basically everybody. Spinning instructor Sarah Krupps reasoning for why she likes it is it burns between 500 and 800 calories in an hour. Simply put, it is like cramming a grueling three-hour Tour de France ride into a 45 minute encounter with hill climbing, puddle jumping and pedaling like mad to escape snapping dogs (2). The final beauty of this exercise phenomenon is that it allows novice cyclers to turn down the resistance without others noticing, so that they dont stand out as they would in an aerobics class. This quality encourages more beginner level people to stick with their exercise regimen because they dont have to be concerned with embarrassing themselves.A second trend of the fitness industry was created by a man named Billy Blanks who introduced a workout video combining boxing, Tae Kwon Do and dance to the markets last August. The public reaction to his video has caused Tae-Bo marketers to shell out $2 million weekly to air his 20 minute infomercial...the Tae-Bo videos have grossed some $75 million and Blanks has accepted an advance of $1.5 million to write an exercise book for Bantam (Labi 77). In contrast to ...
