Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Last week, a roadie named Daniel, who just got a magnificent vintage-style steel Bottecchia (photo) wrote with a question that caused me to do a double-take. I started banging out a reply and then hit the delete key and sent something completely different. … [Read more...] about Which Gearing for This Steel Touring Bike?
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Muscle Loss from Inactivity: 34 Percent in Just Two Weeks
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. A study from the University of Copenhagen shows that wearing an immobilizing knee brace for just two weeks caused men in their 20s to lose 22 to 34 percent of their leg muscle strength, while men in their 60s lost 20 to 26 percent (Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, June 26, 2015). It took them six weeks of exercising on a bicycle 3-4 times a week to … [Read more...] about Muscle Loss from Inactivity: 34 Percent in Just Two Weeks