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- From: toad@cellar.org (Tony Shepps)
- Newsgroups: rec.skate
- Subject: Re: Rollerblade miles = ? Running miles
- Message-ID: <5qRmwB3w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:00:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.014925.29518@stortek.com>
- Sender: bbs@cellar.org (The Cellar BBS)
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- pae@blackcat.stortek.com (Phil Earnhardt) writes:
-
- > In article <w1RZVB8w164w@cellar.org> toad@cellar.org (Tony Shepps) writes:
- >> There's a HUGE difference
- >>between making that trip in new, high-quality bearings with large-diameter
- >>wheels and making it in ancient, loud, ugly, low-quality bearings with
- >>el-cheapo wheels that have been ground down to the hubs. The sad part is
- >>that you get more exercise with the lousy bearings... but it's not half as
- >>much fun!
- >
- > I'm not convinced you can categorically make this statement about workout
- > efficiency.
- >
- > Why do you think that one is getting "more exercise with the lousy bearings?"
-
- Plain and simple experience. I started with Zetra 303s, with their
- average-to-poor wheels and poor bearings. I had to struggle to keep up with
- the folks with better bearings. Matching their speed was sometimes
- torture... I'd wind up covered in sweat. Then I upgraded both the wheels
- and the bearings, and suddenly I had no problem keeping up.
-
- I gave my old wheels and bearings to a fellow hockey skater who had spent
- his whole time on nasty-ugly el-cheapo Kmart variety skates. He had a
- similar increase in speed and ease of skating. I suspect that he wound up
- in better shape than everyone else because he had to struggle for so long.
-
- But the question changes... maybe the real answer is that the *type* of
- workout you get with cheaper bearings is different. The cheap bearings give
- you more resistance. Maybe the workout is just more anaerobic.
-
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- Tony Shepps toad@cellar.org
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