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On Dec 20, 10:02 pm, Ride-A-Lot wrote: Giant Yukon MTB Girl wrote: Don't try to analyze me unless you keep your opinions to yourself. They're not wanted.Interesting. It's the anonymous Internet. No one keeps their opinions to themselves. -- o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-owww.schnauzers.ws OK then analyze, I don't care. I've got better things to do and type with my time. |
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Giant Yukon MTB Girl wrote:
Pete, I don't do well with stairmasters; issues with lower back pain. Therefore the bike is the only thing for me really. I know $400 is alot, but I think it's well worth the $$ in the long run - come Spring I'll be right as rain! I'll be watching movies or listening to my new mp3 player while I pedal away. So JD, what do you do to keep in shape over the winter months? MTB Girl Core work can help with the back. I "suffered" from occasional lower back discomfort until I learned a bunch of core exercises a few years ago. But if you have an actual injury, you may be sort-of screwed. Riding indoors alone takes a special kind of masochism. Spin classes are great for maintaining some level of conditioning and there's enough distraction to make them tolerable, possibly fun. But given that most of them are an hour long, they keep you in shape to ride for about an hour. Every Spring, those longer rides are just as hard as last year. So, if you want more and have snow, go snowshoeing or x-country skiing. -- Lynn Wallace If FDR fought fascism the way Bush fights terrorism, we'd all be speaking German now. |
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(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Giant Yukon MTB Girl: I don't do well with stairmasters; issues with lower back pain. I've been having that lately too. My theory is that it's hamstring tightness. Since I've been paddling hard for an hour or two several days a week, mine have gotten noticeably shorter/tighter. Years ago, on long walks, it used to hurt until I'd stop, bend over, and stretch my hamstrings out for a few minutes. There was a time when I could put both palms flat on the floor - and during that time, I had zero problems with low back muscle pain. Been working on the hamstrings lately, but it takes awhile for those things to stretch out..... Time will tell. That's a well-known cause. Weak abs are the flip side. Yoga works, pilates too. -- Lynn Wallace If FDR fought fascism the way Bush fights terrorism, we'd all be speaking German now. |
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Giant Yukon MTB Girl wrote: So JD, what do you do to keep in shape over the winter months? Ride. When I lived in Colorado, I rode or cross country skied. JD |
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On Dec 21, 1:22 am, "JD" wrote: Giant Yukon MTB Girl wrote: So JD, what do you do to keep in shape over the winter months?Ride. When I lived in Colorado, I rode or cross country skied. JD even though it is only an hour, i'll still be better off than nothing at all. I'll at least get to do my Spring rides in an hour without getting winded and out of breath and frustrated. the other point: so i feel better overall while the winter months with less sun take its toll. I get the cross training component: that's why I'll always try to walk whenever I can. Strangely though, I'm able to ride when I'm not able to walk at times; due to feeling like I'm floating with no stress/strain on my joints - that's the major pain all over. The core exercises - situps stretching and back strengthening: those will help stabilize. But the other stuff: walking, even cross country skiing, will not always be possible. Ex.: today was what I consider a "bad" day, not because I wasn't happy but b/c I couldn't move well, walking was bothering me, problems with my feet, etc. I have a cane actually that I need to carry around with me now, folds up and stores in my knapsack. So, after picking up my boss' Christmas gift with one of the guys from work (which I need to wrap now), I had leg spasms and problems with my feet so I pulled out my cane and hobbled home. But I know it will be better in the morning. MTB Girl |
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Giant Yukon MTB Girl wrote: Anyways, at the end of our exam, he tells me to look up Andrew Pruitt Andy is The Man when it comes to bike fit. BTW Matt & JD: absolutely no mental issues at all with me, none in the family either, just normal reactions after living with controlling lying cheating trolls who spend too much of my money while I stupidly sign loans for them. I got lots of time on the bike to think about my big lessons learned while I count my blessings I didn't marry the guy or have kids with him - and that I got rid of him for the last time! My schizophrenia reference was in jest and a play on your feeling of wellness while on the bike. I'd wager most of us who ride regularly get that endorphin induced euphoria. We get it, some dud took you for a ride and drained your bank account a bit. Just don't tell us he's rotting in a Florida swamp somewhere...unless it's Dan Vo2lker. JD |
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Raptor wrote:
Giant Yukon MTB Girl wrote: Pete, I don't do well with stairmasters; issues with lower back pain. Therefore the bike is the only thing for me really. I know $400 is alot, but I think it's well worth the $$ in the long run - come Spring I'll be right as rain! I'll be watching movies or listening to my new mp3 player while I pedal away. So JD, what do you do to keep in shape over the winter months? MTB Girl Core work can help with the back. I "suffered" from occasional lower back discomfort until I learned a bunch of core exercises a few years ago. But if you have an actual injury, you may be sort-of screwed. Riding indoors alone takes a special kind of masochism. Spin classes are great for maintaining some level of conditioning and there's enough distraction to make them tolerable, possibly fun. But given that most of them are an hour long, they keep you in shape to ride for about an hour. Every Spring, those longer rides are just as hard as last year. Not just as hard. Much easier to build fitness from one hour workout to three hours than none to three hours. Been there done that (last year). So, if you want more and have snow, go snowshoeing or x-country skiing. Gonna eat breakfast first :-) Shawn |
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On Dec 21, 1:48 am, "JD" wrote: Giant Yukon MTB Girl wrote: Anyways, at the end of our exam, he tells me to look up Andrew PruittAndy is The Man when it comes to bike fit. BTW Matt & JD: absolutely no mental issues at all with me, none in the family either, just normal reactions after living with controlling lying cheating trolls who spend too much of my money while I stupidly sign loans for them. I got lots of time on the bike to think about my big lessons learned while I count my blessings I didn't marry the guy or have kids with him - and that I got rid of him for the last time!My schizophrenia reference was in jest and a play on your feeling of wellness while on the bike. I'd wager most of us who ride regularly get that endorphin induced euphoria. We get it, some dud took you for a ride and drained your bank account a bit. Just don't tell us he's rotting in a Florida swamp somewhere...unless it's Dan Vo2lker. JD I once read or heard (wish I could recall) where the runner's high was judged the only true endorphin high. I got into a discussion with this person who said cycling couldn't produce the same result as running. I still stand by my thought that intense biking does produce a high. That's at least part of the reason it keeps me coming back as well. JD: good guess, only it wasn't just a bit of dough. :-(. I hope he is rotting in his own real estate in Florida, you know, the swamps he sells. hmmm, maybe he'll learn his lesson soon, if not for me to recover the $$ but just so he doesn't do it to some other unsuspecting female. Trolls are good manipulators; each profile learned is filed away and used against them at a later point. But, lies still have a way of catching up with him. Slow & steady steers the course...I'll never be schizo, I'm too calm and happy right now just being myself :-) a major victory in and of itself. the endorphins from riding are icing on the cake :-) and I know my local bike shop guys will take care of me. I never had a brother, that's prob. half the problem there. Example 1) I pick up the trainer the other day, I leave the keys locked in the car, they jimmy open the door for me to retrieve them, only to find I had the lights on the battery's died. So one of the guys goes and gets his new Dodge Ram and puts it up to the hood and hooks everything up (no grease on my new nail tips!) and gets it started for me. Then carries the trainer to the car and puts it into the trunk for me. No broken nail tips for MTB girl! Example 2) I look down the other day to see my whole front brake system has been removed (sabotage!) and go over to the shop again, don't they fix me up with a newer better one even though I'm broke and can't pay them yet? Chivalry at its best in downtown Toronto! I have always been able to say my faith in people, esp. men, will always be restored and I will give credit to where credit is due without tarrying & feathering all for the actions/deeds of some pond scum. MTBG |
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Per Giant Yukon MTB Girl:
I still stand by my thought that intense biking does produce a high. I'll go along with that. When I used to ride from Philly to the Jersey shore every Sunday, it came on like clockwork - about 40-45 minutes into the ride. -- PeteCresswell |
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GeeDubb wrote:
"JD" wrote in message I could send you some... The gas bill was bad in the old house, over $300 in the colder months. So far the new place is WAY better in that respect. I guess building techniques have come a long way in the last 90 years or so. Matt Does the new place have as cool of a "dewdroom" as the old one had? JD The whole pad is a dewdroom. A really nice place. If the garage is heated (can't remember) then that could be one heck of a dewdroom. Gary Yeah JD, it kind of does, but just as the old room was morphing into the "play room" (which I don't think you saw much of) the new room is doing the same. It's in the basement, which is a heated slab. It's double duty being the lounge at night and rumpus room during the day. It works. The garage is heated, but I keep the car in it so it's pretty much a full time garage. We were thinking that we could leave the car out if we ever had a big party and wanted to keep the keg or bucket-o-beer out there. Matt (great day of skiing yesterday, BTW) |
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