We obtained long-slit spectroscopy of the Sb NGC 7331 and the barred NGC 5728 galaxies at the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope with the ISIS spectrograph. We have determined the stellar Line of Sight Velocity Distribution (LOSVD), using the near-IR CaII triplet ( ~ 8500 Angstroms), along the major axis of these two galaxies. The analysis of NGC 7331 shows that, in the radial range between 5'' and 20'', the LOSVD of the absorption lines has two components. This LOSVD can be decomposed into a fast-rotating component with v/sigma > 3, and a slower rotating, retrograde component with v/sigma ~ 1-1.5. A two-dimensional bulge-disk decomposition of the near-infrared K-band image shows that the radial surface brightness profile of the counter-rotating component follows that of the bulge, while the fast-rotating component follows the disk. At the radius at which the disk starts to dominate, the isophotes change from being considerably boxy to being very disky. This makes NGC 7331 the first spiral galaxy known to have a boxy, fairly warm, counter-rotating component which is dominating the central regions. Preliminary kinematic analysis of the barred galaxy NGC 5728 is also presented. This galaxy shows a nuclear bar twisted ~ 60 degrees respect to the main bar. The LOSVD shows again the presence of two components in the nuclear regions. In the inner 3 arcsecs the main component seems to be associated to the nuclear bar; beyond this radius this component follows the main bar. A counter-rotating component is present in the inner ~ 10 arcsecs which could be associated to a hidden structure.