09/21/2022
History of SPINNING 🚵♀️
Indoor cycling from its beginnings to the present: a bit of history. The indoor cycle (IC) was born in 1987 at the hands of Johnatan Golberg, also known as Johnny G. This retired Californian cyclist was preparing an ultra-endurance cycling race that consisted of crossing the United States from coast to coast, and, to make his roller training (a device that allows us to mount the bike on one or more rotating rollers, to be able to pedal in the same place without moving) decided to make some modifications to his bike that would allow him to train in a more comfortable way. He created an exercise bike with a design and characteristics very similar to those of a normal one. The design of this bike was characterized by having a fixed gear and a flywheel to facilitate continuous pedaling. Later, he began to train with more fellow cyclists in the garage of his house and together they introduced music to their workouts, increasing motivation, combating monotony, boredom and apathy and thus making them more enjoyable. Starting in 1995, Johnny G partners with SCHWINN for the mass production of the SPINNER bicycle and patents the training program he uses under the name SPINNING. Thus, SPINNING hit hard from the year 95/96, generating a market for bicycle sales, teacher certification and related products.
Thus, little by little, a new activity based on cycling was forged, but which could perfectly well be developed in gyms and fitness clubs. This is how the sports activity that we currently call Indoor Cycling (not SPINNING) was born and that filled a non-existent void in the world of fitness. Over time, gyms, first in San Diego and later in Los Angeles and San Francisco, discovered this new and attractive activity, which was welcomed with enormous success by the users of these sports facilities. Once the CI was implanted in the most important gyms on the West Coast of the United States, it quickly spread throughout the country, and through fairs and conventions it was exported internationally to Central and South America as well as to Europe. Currently, it is already a consolidated activity and there are few sports centers that do not have indoor cycling among their offer of group classes. It is also an activity that is widely accepted by the general public. We can find endless training programs from various commercial houses, with different names and different methodologies: Spinning, Cyclingroom, Team ICG, Bestcycling, among others.
Rule number 1 to spin: Be crazy.
