Alternative to tights?

Matthew Venhaus wrote:

Eat less. Holidays are coming; how will you handle the food
temptations?

I've got that covered....I joined weight watchers and there is a weigh
in every week. I don't have alot of weight to lose. I have to lose 25
lbs. I want to be "thin" for this wedding. If it were not for this
wedding, I would be happy at my present weight. I am not a fat slob
and I am not 25 years old. I don't expect to look like a woman in her
twenties. My daughter is in her twenties...I am surrounded by her
friends constantly. I KNOW I AM NOT GOING TO LOOK LIKE THAT AGAIN.
I look pretty good for my age. Tonight I cycled otdoors, then indoors
with weights, and then did a workout with an aerobic video. An aerobic
firm and tone video. 30 minutes. I am watching my diet and the fear
of the scale at weight watchers is pushing me to stay on this diet. If
I ever get down to my goal weight, and I am stupid enough to put the
weight back on.....I am hopeless.
I have been fighting with 25 lbs since I went through menopause. I
think some ladies on this site might understand what its like to lose
weight after you go through that horrific experience.....BEING
MENOPAUSAL....it is a nightmare. I'm glad its over, but it makes
losing weight a battle. Even 25 lbs. I think I should change my
posting to a diet group from now until June....because I am going to
start getting obsessed with this, and I know cycling will not be enough
to help me tone. ESPECIALLY MY BYE BYE ARMS. Maybe I should cross post
this to something diet related....No....I won't do that. I will hunt
down a diet group and start annoying them.

Maggie.
http://www.geocities.com/lindaannbuset/mypage.html
http://hometown.aol.com/lbuset/

"Maggie" wrote in message
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Matthew Venhaus wrote:

Eat less. Holidays are coming; how will you handle the food
temptations?

I've got that covered....I joined weight watchers and there is a weigh
in every week. I don't have alot of weight to lose. I have to lose 25
lbs. I want to be "thin" for this wedding. If it were not for this
wedding, I would be happy at my present weight. I am not a fat slob
and I am not 25 years old. I don't expect to look like a woman in her
twenties. My daughter is in her twenties...I am surrounded by her
friends constantly. I KNOW I AM NOT GOING TO LOOK LIKE THAT AGAIN.
I look pretty good for my age. Tonight I cycled otdoors, then indoors
with weights, and then did a workout with an aerobic video. An aerobic
firm and tone video. 30 minutes. I am watching my diet and the fear
of the scale at weight watchers is pushing me to stay on this diet. If
I ever get down to my goal weight, and I am stupid enough to put the
weight back on.....I am hopeless.
I have been fighting with 25 lbs since I went through menopause. I
think some ladies on this site might understand what its like to lose
weight after you go through that horrific experience.....BEING
MENOPAUSAL....it is a nightmare. I'm glad its over, but it makes
losing weight a battle. Even 25 lbs. I think I should change my
posting to a diet group from now until June....because I am going to
start getting obsessed with this, and I know cycling will not be enough
to help me tone. ESPECIALLY MY BYE BYE ARMS. Maybe I should cross post
this to something diet related....No....I won't do that. I will hunt
down a diet group and start annoying them.

You can always come back to alt.support.diet and annoy us G

Beverly wrote:
"Maggie" wrote in message
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Matthew Venhaus wrote:

Eat less. Holidays are coming; how will you handle the food
temptations?

I've got that covered....I joined weight watchers and there is a weigh
in every week. I don't have alot of weight to lose. I have to lose 25
lbs. I want to be "thin" for this wedding. If it were not for this
wedding, I would be happy at my present weight. I am not a fat slob
and I am not 25 years old. I don't expect to look like a woman in her
twenties. My daughter is in her twenties...I am surrounded by her
friends constantly. I KNOW I AM NOT GOING TO LOOK LIKE THAT AGAIN.
I look pretty good for my age. Tonight I cycled otdoors, then indoors
with weights, and then did a workout with an aerobic video. An aerobic
firm and tone video. 30 minutes. I am watching my diet and the fear
of the scale at weight watchers is pushing me to stay on this diet. If
I ever get down to my goal weight, and I am stupid enough to put the
weight back on.....I am hopeless.
I have been fighting with 25 lbs since I went through menopause. I
think some ladies on this site might understand what its like to lose
weight after you go through that horrific experience.....BEING
MENOPAUSAL....it is a nightmare. I'm glad its over, but it makes
losing weight a battle. Even 25 lbs. I think I should change my
posting to a diet group from now until June....because I am going to
start getting obsessed with this, and I know cycling will not be enough
to help me tone. ESPECIALLY MY BYE BYE ARMS. Maybe I should cross post
this to something diet related....No....I won't do that. I will hunt
down a diet group and start annoying them.

You can always come back to alt.support.diet and annoy us G


Thanks Beverly.....I think I will. I knew I had posted at on a diet
group a few times. I'm heading back....at your invitation.

Maggie.

"gds" wrote in message
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SDB wrote:

Bicycling can tone your arms.

Perhaps if you pedal with your arms.

But I think that cycling must be one of the least efficient forms of
activity to tone one's arms.
Look at the disparity between the muscular development of legs vs. arms
on top cyclists.


Since my upper body strength is so pathetic, I have indeed gotten strength
in my arms from cycling. Just keeping the tandem steady doing STP with Rose
completely exhausted my arms and shoulders. My legs could have kept going
for another 100 miles.

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Claire Petersky
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Claire Petersky wrote:

Since my upper body strength is so pathetic, I have indeed gotten strength
in my arms from cycling. Just keeping the tandem steady doing STP with Rose
completely exhausted my arms and shoulders. My legs could have kept going
for another 100 miles.

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Well Roger will be sure to jump in regarding my being repetitive but
cycling is not good upper body exersize. Your own example illustrates
the point. Claire, you do lots of cycling, and as you state you are
able to ride withyour upper body giving out long before your legs. That
means that your upper body has not gotten the same benefit from all of
your cycling as has your lower body. It may have gotten some benefit
but not a whole lot.
Road cycling has virtually no benefit for the pper body. Mtn. biking
has some but compared to the benefit for the lower body it is still
pretty minimal. All the posting about pulling up while climbing etc.
That is all true, but really doesn't amount to a workout that comes
anywhere close to what is happening with your legs.

If you want to look athletes with equally developed upper and lower
bodies you need to look at sports that require that sort of balance.
So, baskebal players, tennis players, track sprinters (and now middle
distance runners), hurdlers, football player all have more of a balance
between upper and lower bodies because th esports require both upper
and lower boy strength. Cycling doesn't- that is why top pro cyclists
have thighs that look like football player's and totally unmuscular
chests and arms.

Matthew Venhaus wrote:
Unless you are talking about track cyclist, I don't know of any pro
that even comes close to approaching the thigh size of a football (I'm
assuming American) player's.


You are absolutely correct if one is measuring the thigh circumference.
However, you might be surprised at the cyclists strength to weight
ratio in the legs when compared to much larger football players.

But my point was on relative development and I used a metaphor. The
point is that cyclists have relatively muscular legs and relatively un
muscular arms and chests and that this strongly indicates that cycling
works the lower and upper bodies differently.

gds wrote in message
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and lower boy strength. Cycling doesn't- that is why top pro
cyclists
have thighs that look like football player's and totally unmuscular
chests and arms.

Unless you are talking about track cyclist, I don't know of any pro
that even comes close to approaching the thigh size of a football (I'm
assuming American) player's.

Sporthill makes great products (or at least great running pants - I
don't know anything about their cycling clothes). They're not just for
chubby people either - my entire D-1 college track team loved them even
before we started getting them as part of our official team warmups.

The pants come in different cuts. I have two pairs with ankle zippers
and just enough extra material around the ankle that I could imagine
they might touch the chain or chainring, but I have another pair that
fits much more closely around the ankle.

Sporthill is on the web at www.sporthill.com and available in many
running shoe stores. They are expensive. Definitely worth it for
running long distances in cold weather, but there are plenty of similar
products on the market if you don't want to spend that much for
commuting gear.

Jason