Patrick: Your point does not appear to counter mine.
H-Gs may have only spent 4 hours per day H-Ging, but they certainly would not have taken weeks or even days off from H-Ging. If they did, they would starve. There were no freezers in the Serengeti 100,000 years ago. I am sure there is a lot more to it than this, but I do think many who view cycling as training, forcing themselves to meet all sorts of arbitrary schedules are going against basic homo sapien physiology. Far better to find a lifestyle that keeps you active several hours per day than to have training days with extreme activity, followed by many with out. In any event, this is going far a field of the forum topic restrictions. I've said enough. On Jun 24, 9:52 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:40 PM, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > A lot of stuff I have been reading points out for most of our > > existence, humans were hunter gatherers who spent most every waking > > hour on the move. Constant movement and repetition is natural for our > > bodies. Perhaps there are some who do not fit the norm. > > From what I have read, hunter gatherers spent a good part of the day asleep > or idle, working an average of 4 hours/day, though there might be periods of > long days and others of complete idleness. The same for traditional farmers, > I gather, though more work and less leisure; but neither the 10 hour day-in > and day-out treadmill of the modern wage slave. > > *And* I read that your average hunter gatherer in an average period > (interspersed of course with occasional periods of famine) enjoyed a better > diet -- with respect to overall nutrition and healthiness -- than most of us > do. > > The pastoralists and old fashion farmers that that I saw as a boy 40+ years > ago (eg, pre tourist hinterland Nepal; backwoods Kikuyu) certainly didn't > look undernourished or unhappy -- quite the contrary. > > *I* think our bodies and souls are designed for interspersed periods of > effort and rest; cyclic, as most things in nature -- like bicycle wheels and > pedaling and steering. > > Beetle grubs ... Mmmmm. > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
