For tonight's class, I'm tapping the good ole spinlist archives for this 45-minute gem! ENJOY THE RIDE! 🚴♂️🎶😅 open.spotify.com/playlist/6yFdxn5q2hoSyCIUJ2y62p
Happy ROCKtober Eve!
Harlem Cycle, The First Indoor Cycling Studio In The Neighborhood, Came After Its Founder Pivoted From Corporate America To Entrepreneurship – Blavity
Tammeca Rochester pivoted from corporate America to entrepreneurship for a deeper purpose, allowing her to pour back into her local community . — Read on blavity.com/harlem-cycle-first-indoor-cycling-studio
Strong Enough 047
Looking back at this ride mix…10 YEARS LATER!
Encore ride coming soon!
TGIF
Winter 2013 SPIN #23 (45 min)
01 Walk – Foo Fighters – 4:16 (Welcome / Warm up)
02 We R Who We R – Ke$ha – 3:25 (Seated / Standing Flat)
03 Vertigo – U2 – 3:15 (Seated Flat w/ Rolling Hills)
04 Strong Enough – Matthew West – 4:04 (Seated / Standing Hill)
05 Tightrope – Walk The Moon – 3:29 (Seated Flat w/ Jumps)
06 The Way I Are – Timbaland vs. Nephew… – 3:50 (Seated / Standing Hill)
07 Made Of – Nause – 3:42 (Seated / Standing Flat)
08 Greyhound – Swedish House Mafia – 6:51 (Quick Seated Flat w/ Leg drills)
09 Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana – 5:02 (Seated Flat w/ Rolling Hills)
10 You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid – The Offspring – 2:58 (Sprints / 3 X 15s)
11 Find Your Kindness – Rend Collective Experiment – 4:09 (Cool down / Stretch)
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First Ride: 4G Athletic (Jenison, MI)
One final shout-out to the owners, trainers, employees, and members that made this a first-class, one-of-a-kind studio and fitness community! I remember my FIRST RIDE visit in 2018…after hearing lots of great things from so many people in the SW area of greater Grand Rapids. Best wishes to all as one chapter closes…and another opens! RIDE ON!
After May 2023, 4G ATHLETIC will permanently close.
Sadly, we’ve lost many great public, group fitness businesses in the area in the wake of the extending and lingering Covid pandemic. Others include: The Dailey Method, CycleBar, Shape Your Life Studios, and Allegro Coaching.
All the best to the others who continue to offer a great venue and fitness program in the greater GR area! (Greater GR YMCA, MVP, Lunar Cycle, Spoke, Yoga Fever, Evolve Fitness, The KROC Center, Walker Ice & Fitness, and others…)
It’s only been a couple weeks since my last FIRST RIDE post, but since I never actually did the class, I thought I would finally visit 4G Athletic, which opened nearly a year ago.
This facility is like four boutique studios in one…4G is short for 4 Groups: Bike, Flow (Yoga), Lift (think Body Pump), and Move (think Bootcamp with treadmill, rowing, TRX, and weights)…all under one roof.
Each of the four groups has it’s own dedicated and enclosed space in the building, along with an open reception area, changing rooms, bathrooms (no showers), and water station. By design, the extras are minimal, to keep the pricing down. Just bring your own water, shoes, towel, etc. and 4G provides a remarkable fitness facility, equipment, and staff!
1. BIKE
2. FLOW
3. LIFT
4. MOVE
There is some serious West Michigan fitness money behind 4G…MVP Sports Clubs…
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Do Or Die 079
Ready or not…May ’23 will be here soon!
I’m giving DO OR DIE and encore ride tomorrow, just about 10 years since I took this one for a “SPIN” in 2013. If you cannot check out the full ~45 minutes of my 79th spinlist…do give these a listen (again): DO OR DIE (Thirty Seconds To Mars), DIANE YOUNG (Vampire Weekend), TAKE IT OUTSIDE (Brantley Gilbert), and DRUM TRIP (Rusted Root).I have big plans for the next 31 days of 2023…watch for an update on that this June. Make it a great May Day Monday & ENJOY THE RIDE all month long! And watch for another fresh ride/mix (#552) soon!
-Steve
Summer 2013 SPIN #04 (46 min)
01. 4:08 WARM UP / Do Or Die – 30 Seconds To Mars
02. 6:02 SEATED & STANDING FLAT / Take Me – Tiesto w/ Kyler England
03. 2:40 JUMPS / Diane Young – Vampire Weekend
04. 4:48 ROLLING HILLS / Our Love Is Loud – David Crowder Band
05. 3:33 SPRINTS (3 x 25s) / How Far We’ve Come – Matchbox Twenty
06. 4:17 SEATED & STANDING HILL / Take It Outside – Brantley Gilbert
07. 4:19 SEATED FLAT & SEATED & STANDING HILL / Feel The Beat – Darude
08. 3:36 JUMPS / Misery – Maroon 5
09. 3:45 SEATED & STANDING FLAT / Drum Trip – Rusted Root
10. 3:48 STANDING SPRINTS (3 x 25s) / Alone – Sleeping With Sirens w/ MGK
11. 4:08 COOL DOWN & STRETCH / Bring Me Home – Sade
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