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  1. #1
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    Apr 2005
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    Middle Earth
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    I think part of a womens programme could include some clear explaination/teaching around how women's metabolisms are so different to men;
    - how the muscle/fat ratio affects us and our power output
    - how more muscle means it is easier to burn fat (which is why men find it easier to drop weight than women)
    - how women will never develop the same/equivilent muscle mass to men and therefore will never to the same times/speeds at the top level as men

    I think from discussions with women, these basic facts about how our bodies respond to exercise are oftne unknown or misunderstood.

    I also want to agree with the others - specific training for women
    - developing confidence in bike handling
    - skills in riding with others (my partner says some of the men he rides with prefer not to ride with women in training rides or racing because they are unpredicatble and cant hold their lines)
    - women's only training rides (I will never ride with my partner on his Sunday morning training ride because the guys there just go too fast - 35kph is a moderate pace for them - for me its race pace... I just wouldn't go the distance)

    Excellent thing to be asked to do VeloGirl
    All the best

  2. #2
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    Jul 2007
    Location
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    It's too bad Little Rock is so far away. Are there any shops a bit closer to you?
    Yes, one is an hour away. They do all my work on my bike and I'm tinkering more on my own. Hey, maybe you could create a women's guide to bike mechanic series--with lots of pictures. Maybe a video too!

 

 

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