So imagine my pleasure at seeing this news:
Biking for as little as five minutes a day can help women minimize weight gain as they enter middle age, especially if they're overweight to begin with, a new study suggests.Well alrighty, then.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Well, that makes me feel better.
Riding the bike to the grocery store has got to be healthy and good for me and stuff, but I had a nagging feeling that, you know, maybe 10-20 minutes of pedaling wasn't measurably helpful. I mean, I wasn't putting on any special clothes to do it, and my bike is all earth tones and has a basket and nothing on it is made out of carbon fiber, so maybe I wasn't actually exercising.
So imagine my pleasure at seeing this news:
So imagine my pleasure at seeing this news:
I thought about riding a bike to the store. But since I would still be buying a cartload of bacon, I figured what's the point?
ReplyDeleteTam: You're like, 9" in diameter. WTF you need exercise for? More shooting will improve your muscle tone.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you don't have carbon anything on your bike makes it MORE of a workout when you ride, not less. Heavier bike = more energy expended to move it = better workout.
ReplyDeleteI never did understand the guys who bike like 20 miles a day but do it on a bike that weighs less than my left shoe. It's like lifting really big weights, only making them out of fluff so they aren't so hard to lift. If they really want a workout, they should put a cinder block on a chain and drag that behind them when they do their 20 mile ride.
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don't you just love to be vindicated?
ReplyDeleteYes. The smug output of my bike just doubled. :)
ReplyDeleteI've always found that smug is only evil when it's in the service of people who are wrong.
ReplyDeleteIE, people who disagree with me. ;^)
What og said.
ReplyDeleteThat's it, I'm getting my bike out of the garage.
ReplyDeleteDoes this bike make my butt look fat? If I mention that specifically to my wife I'll get a smack upside the head.
ReplyDeleteMy old, weighty, steel-framed Schwinn Varsity built lung-power and legs.
Make sure the bike you get is fed with 89 octane and purrs as you twist that throttle vigorously for about five hundredths of a calorie burn, don't know how far you would get in five minutes but it won't do nothing to one's weight - except the one on one's mind. Removes it completely.
ReplyDeleteConsidering that the weight of the bicycle and the weight of the lock necessary to secure it usually equal a constant, if the lycra crowd on their go-fast bikes carried their locks around it'd all work out.
ReplyDeleteI've got one of the ones from the extreme right edge of Kryptonite's range, just in case I really need to win that arms race. Heavy SOB, though.
Jim
Tam, you are not fat, just fluffy sometimes.
ReplyDelete(Hides behind kevlar boulder)
:^)
Ulises from CA
I wasn't putting on any special clothes to do it, and my bike is all earth tones and has a basket..."
ReplyDeleteThat's the beauty of the wookie suit!