>Also, to amplify a short stroke using levers would mean that you would >have to push harder. Using the strongest muscles in your body! Loading way up on the toes seems to lead to fatigue pretty quickly, but if a heel pedal was used, anyone who can trot up a few flights of stairs should be able to press out a whole lot of reps at 50 pounds per leg (like, hundreds to thousands). I'm not sure I could lift a 50 pound dumbell through the hand pump motion once! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 22:13:48 PST
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