HELD TO ACCOUNT

Have you ever used one of these before?” asks my instructor, Stephen Gordon, with slightly too much gleeful anticipation for my liking. He's pointing to what looks like an exercise bike with cross-trainer handles. “I don’t think so,” I reply. “Oh you would know if you had!” he says, with a chuckle. Two minutes later, my limbs have fallen off and my heart rate is somewhere in the thousands. No, I hadn’t used an AirBike before – there have been a lot of firsts in the past hour.

I’m at AMP Athletic (amp.fit), a recently opened gym