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Pedaling a plain exercise bike
Wolvenar:
That's one of the tricks to weight loss and muscle/nerve (re)building.
One of the terms for this is muscle confusion. This is an insufficient term as the nervous system is very much involved. As muscle condition and nerve conductivity/pathways build to accommodate a certain exercise or function they get much more efficient at it.
Once this happens the benefits plateau and you get less return from doing more of the same exercise.
Changing the routine up once you realize you have adapted, or just as it gets easier makes workouts MUCH more effective.
Norm:
You seem to be much more knowledgeable about exercise than I ....
thanks for the reply!
Norm
Norm:
Yes .....that's right I plugged the little Burton coffee maker (12 volt) into
the deep cycle battery .....paralleled the PedGen with it....flipped the
coffee maker switch and started pedaling ....looking at the digital bike meter
I noted the elapsed time that I had already pedaled this morning, 33.45 min.
2 minutes and I heard the gurgle of coffee starting to perk and the smell of
fresh coffee brewing.
10 minutes later and I had a fresh cup of coffee, I had pedaled the walking
equivalent of .5 of a mile had that wheel been touching the ground I would
have been going 3.2 MPH. with less effort than walking.
Eventually I will have a bike that does just that.
It is 2 miles to town....time and distance enough to make a cup of coffee
and put twice the amount of electricity into the battery that I took out.
At that price of coffee at McDonald's I would save enough to pay for about
2 KWH of grid electricity! :)
Norm.
Wolvenar:
Neat comparison.
ghurd:
Hey Norm,
Did you ever figure out what that coffee maker
used for amps?
Gotta love an efficient PMA,
and a cup of coffee made with an efficient PMA!
;D
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