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Anonymous
/fit/, I just got home from a bike ride. 4 miles in 20 minutes. Good sweat, my legs are tired.

I have a question, though. What will get me a better burn, lower gears for faster pedaling and less resistance, or higher gears for slower pedaling and more resistance?
>> Anonymous
more resistance will give you a better burn and more growth - also 4 miles? dude thats shit unless your 60yo or something
>> Anonymous
fool. higher gears with faster pedaling. you must be working at maximum effort. or i will CRUSH you.
>> Anonymous
>>52062
shut up and chop more wood, drago
>> Anonymous
>>52064
i will chop wood, but not for you. i chop wood for the MOTHERLAND
>> Anonymous
>>52056
20 minutes of running is something.
20 minutes of biking isn't shit.
What I recommend is you find a resistance at which you can pedal at a steady speed for at least a half hour straight. What you'll want to do is downshift on the uphill to keep the resistance approximately even -- your speed will vary, but you'll be pedaling the same resistance the whole time and you won't have to stop to rest. The important thing is that you push yourself a bit harder each time: I have a GPS unit I carry with me that keeps track of my distance, moving time, average and top speeds which I use to benchmark myself.

But seriously, ride longer than 20 minutes/4 miles.
>> Anonymous
Okie dokie. I do like running/walking a lot more, just wanted to whip out the old wheels for once. They just sit useless in my garage. I just biked the same length I walk (run for too long and my kneecap will explode) but the walking/running obviously takes longer.
>> Anonymous
>>52080
20 mins at 35 km/h is actually murder.
Try it with your race-bike.
Or alternatively fight a hill for 20 mins.
>> Anonymous
>>52109

I would say I kept a constant speed of about 15 mph, kept up with some passing cars in the neighbourhood (speed limit is 25 mph)
>> Anonymous
>>52109
Trust me, I know. But that doesn't mean you can *stop* after 20 minutes. My bike workout goes a bit like this -- ride for about 20 minutes up a fairly slow incline until I reach 2-ish mile hill, ride up hill as fast as I can so that I feel like I'm going to die by the time I reach the top, turn around and take downhills and level land on a meandering route home. Good warmup, cooldown, and I get to take in the sights.
>> Anonymous
>>52109
yes, but he didn't go 35km/h
he went around 25km/h whick is much easier
>> Anonymous
First of all, anything less than an hour on a bike does not count. Unless you're not somewhere near Alpe d'Huez, you will recover from any climb after several minutes.

Use lower gear to prevent fuckage of knees and generally for better performance. Keep cadence (rpm of your feet) at a minimum of 80 when sitting on the saddle. Try not to think what gear gives the best resistance, but on which gear you can maximize your power output.

For better endurance at climbs, you can actually switch to a higher gear if you stand up from the saddle and lower your cadence to around fifty-sixty. I do this when ascending hills of moderate length. For the long ones I just sit down and switch to the lowest gear.

>>52109
Done 20 minutes at 33 km/h last summer. It was fun.