Owww muscle strains. Advice please!

[RICHARD]

You may not be able to do this....

Cold water. I'd turn the hose on and run the water over my legs.

Then I'd give myself a 'massage' - take you hands and push the muscles towards your knees. From your hips down and your ankles up.

Don't try to keep up with the instructor until you have a few weeks of spinning in. You just did too much too soon.

[Medusa]

When I used to teach exercise and aerobics classes, I always told my students that they would probably not feel much the first day. It's the second and third days that they'd want to stick pins in a Mary doll. Any time you work a muscle group that hasn't been exerted to such an extent, this will happen. The absolute best thing you can do to ease the pain and soreness is to take a hot bath w/Epsom salts. It helps to rid your body of built up lactic acid, which is the cause of your soreness. Good luck and good for you for taking a spinning class, girl!

[smokey the elder]

Icy Hot or Bengay or some other topical might provide some relief and help you sleep. At work I have to walk up this steep hill, and it was really beating up my ankles until I got used to it, and Icy Hot worked really well. (End of commercial.) I hope you feel better.