Bob W wrote: > Good luck - you can do it! > > You may find jogging more efficient than cycling. If you work up to 20 > minutes jogging every other day you will lose a lot of weight very > quickly.
Bob's right on this. Cycling's much easier on your body when you're starting out. The trouble is, that one of cycling's main attractions, its efficiency as transportation, works against you when you're trying to lose weight, especially if you have limited time available (or aren't yet in good enough shape to put in a lot of time every day yet). I have a lot of friends who are triathletes or duathletes and they have always told me they regard one hour of running to be equivalent to 4 hours of cycling. I didn't believe it until I started cycling myself (I'm training for a 100-miler in the Blue Ridge near GFM in two weeks): Cycling is a really efficient form of transportation, which makes it, by definition, an inefficient way of burning calories. My advice would be to use cycling as a way to train up to some running. Mont importantly, find some people to work out with on a regular basis. Camaraderie and friendly competitiveness are a *big* help! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
