6 Spinning Mistakes: Why You Haven’t Lost Weight with Spinning

Stop spinning your wheels!

We have high expectations from our spinning classes. With promises of torching between 400 and 600 calories an hour, you’d expect to look like a leaner version of yourself after a month. And when changes don’t happen, it’s normal to wonder why. So we went straight to Cydney Lebovitz, the co-lead instructor and performance coach at Cyclebar Leaside in Toronto, to find out what gives. Why aren’t we seeing the gains (or rather, the weight loss) we should be seeing? Turns out, it’s easy to make mistakes in spin class. Read on to learn about the six most common spinning mistakes.