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I am a semi-out of shape overweight woman and I have gone spinning two times. I have no problem keeping up or dealing with the 60 minute workout but the guy who runs the program keeps telling me that my butt will toughen up. Ladies I don't have the nerve to tell him that it is not the butt that is getting sore but urr other parts even with a Gel seat. HELP ANY SUGGESTIONS.
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Hum... There are some good suggestions in here and a couple of bad ones as well.
You ought to know, there are really two major problems that can arise from sitting on a bicycle seat.
The first problem is pressure which can cause bruising. A gel seat cover and chamois can help with bruising. Also, your bottom will toughen up in a few weeks and you won't be as troubled by it. Getting off the saddle and pedalling while standing on occaision will help to releive pressure, as well.
The second problem is chaffing. Chaffing is caused by friction and you've got to eliminate the causes of friction to deal with the problem. Chaffing can lead to saddle sores, so you don't want to ignore it.
First, good, snug fitting cycling shorts with a chamois are an absolute necessity. If you already have some tight exercise shorts, you may want to buy cycling briefs with a chamois to go under your exercise shorts. Loose clothing is your enemy as bunching and gathering of fabric causes friction on tender bottom parts.
Secondly, be sure you go commando when you get the cycling shorts. Again, extra layers of fabric are your enemy.
Thirdly, a lubricant like Assos Chamois Cream or Paceline Chamois Butt'r will help. Body Glide may help but I tend to think it is better for preventing blisters where there is skin on skin contact when running (like toes) than for keeping my bottom from chaffing. The Assos product is medicated and will help clear up existing saddle sores and keep them from getting infected. It is, however, very expensive.
Talcum may help. I have never tried that before. Certainly it is cheap enough to try once, though.
Hope this helps.
Hum... There are some good suggestions in here and a couple of bad ones as well.
You ought to know, there are really two major problems that can arise from sitting on a bicycle seat.
The first problem is pressure which can cause bruising. A gel seat cover and chamois can help with bruising. Also, your bottom will toughen up in a few weeks and you won't be as troubled by it. Getting off the saddle and pedalling while standing on occaision will help to releive pressure, as well.
The second problem is chaffing. Chaffing is caused by friction and you've got to eliminate the causes of friction to deal with the problem. Chaffing can lead to saddle sores, so you don't want to ignore it.
First, good, snug fitting cycling shorts with a chamois are an absolute necessity. If you already have some tight exercise shorts, you may want to buy cycling briefs with a chamois to go under your exercise shorts. Loose clothing is your enemy as bunching and gathering of fabric causes friction on tender bottom parts.
Secondly, be sure you go commando when you get the cycling shorts. Again, extra layers of fabric are your enemy.
Thirdly, a lubricant like Assos Chamois Cream or Paceline Chamois Butt'r will help. Body Glide may help but I tend to think it is better for preventing blisters where there is skin on skin contact when running (like toes) than for keeping my bottom from chaffing. The Assos product is medicated and will help clear up existing saddle sores and keep them from getting infected. It is, however, very expensive.
Talcum may help. I have never tried that before. Certainly it is cheap enough to try once, though.
Hope this helps.
Name something embarrassing that has happened to you?
Q. I know people ask this all the time but there's always different people answering and you get to read some pretty crazy stories! It doesn't have to be the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you if you don't want to say or you've already answered it before, but just tell something embarrassing that has happened to you. Anything at all, but the more embarrassing the better! Everybody has a lame tripped and fell in public story, but I want to hear something more interesting and original than that.
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I was in math class (I think it was) in high school. I let out a large sneeze and banged my head on the desk in the process. Quite a few people saw and laughed, the teacher however was trying best to resist from laughing. I even had a red mark on my forehead.
Another time (also in high school) I reading about socrates but every line with socrates I pronounced it "so-crates" like in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, even when I was corrected it still came out "so-crates".
I'm a young guy again... my dad has bought me a shiny new bike so I can get from and to work easily. "Hey, why don't you take it for a quick spin?" "Yeah sure..." So I get on the bike and ride decently fast around the parking lot to test the speed and control. I see not to far from me that a car is pulling out so I applied the back wheel brake. Wham! In an instant I'm lying on my back on the concrete and the bike is 10 feet from me. How did I get from point a to point b? I got to a point when I felt was an appropriate distance from a car and applied what I thought was the back wheel brake but unfortunately was the front wheel brake, I find myself flying off my seat and hurled onto the concrete all due to the rapid halt. Let me just add that this center with the bike shop is also a pretty popular place.
Young guy again... I'm out drinking with a few of my friends and we decide to to go check out this party. When we get there everything that is coming out of my mouth is either incoherent or not worded not the way I intended. So I'm in there having a good time and I start talking to this girl. "Hows you doin'", "I'm doing pretty good, you?", "Fanplastic"...(Can't remember the entirety of the conversation but leads up to her talking about how she looks or something)... (Here I come in when she say's she is ugly, it processes in my mind for a second, "tell the pretty lady she is pretty).. "Na! You're not pretty, your're ugly" "WHAT!" "I have to go feed my pigeon bird (there was a crazy looking bird at the party I was trying to feed earlier) I got to go!"
I don't know what else I can add, quite possibly a billion funny and sometimes embarrassing situations I've been in but don't remember.
Hold on, these I just remembered later today:
Once in the mall I waved to a cardboard cut out of a person thinking it was someone who knew me waving. Behind my reasoning: I'm extremely near sighted and well known.
I stopped into a chocolate store one time and spotted chocolate that looked like it was for sampling. I had a few but then a lady at the register said "Excuse me sir! those are not for sampling!" I freaked out, mumbled, and ran.
Once when I was getting high in the woods with some friends, a pal of mine on his way. It was decided that we make a gravity bong and I should get some water. So as I was making my way out of the woods on a path to get water for a gravity bong, I saw a silhouette of a dude running full pace towards me. It had to be an angry neighbor-guy-cop so I jumped out of the way and into some bushes. My bud (the silhouette I assumed was an angry neighbor) gracefully skipped over my feet, says back to me "hey dude I got some water", I remain on the ground still all freaked out and covered in dirt and stems, and my other pals are laughing.
I was in math class (I think it was) in high school. I let out a large sneeze and banged my head on the desk in the process. Quite a few people saw and laughed, the teacher however was trying best to resist from laughing. I even had a red mark on my forehead.
Another time (also in high school) I reading about socrates but every line with socrates I pronounced it "so-crates" like in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, even when I was corrected it still came out "so-crates".
I'm a young guy again... my dad has bought me a shiny new bike so I can get from and to work easily. "Hey, why don't you take it for a quick spin?" "Yeah sure..." So I get on the bike and ride decently fast around the parking lot to test the speed and control. I see not to far from me that a car is pulling out so I applied the back wheel brake. Wham! In an instant I'm lying on my back on the concrete and the bike is 10 feet from me. How did I get from point a to point b? I got to a point when I felt was an appropriate distance from a car and applied what I thought was the back wheel brake but unfortunately was the front wheel brake, I find myself flying off my seat and hurled onto the concrete all due to the rapid halt. Let me just add that this center with the bike shop is also a pretty popular place.
Young guy again... I'm out drinking with a few of my friends and we decide to to go check out this party. When we get there everything that is coming out of my mouth is either incoherent or not worded not the way I intended. So I'm in there having a good time and I start talking to this girl. "Hows you doin'", "I'm doing pretty good, you?", "Fanplastic"...(Can't remember the entirety of the conversation but leads up to her talking about how she looks or something)... (Here I come in when she say's she is ugly, it processes in my mind for a second, "tell the pretty lady she is pretty).. "Na! You're not pretty, your're ugly" "WHAT!" "I have to go feed my pigeon bird (there was a crazy looking bird at the party I was trying to feed earlier) I got to go!"
I don't know what else I can add, quite possibly a billion funny and sometimes embarrassing situations I've been in but don't remember.
Hold on, these I just remembered later today:
Once in the mall I waved to a cardboard cut out of a person thinking it was someone who knew me waving. Behind my reasoning: I'm extremely near sighted and well known.
I stopped into a chocolate store one time and spotted chocolate that looked like it was for sampling. I had a few but then a lady at the register said "Excuse me sir! those are not for sampling!" I freaked out, mumbled, and ran.
Once when I was getting high in the woods with some friends, a pal of mine on his way. It was decided that we make a gravity bong and I should get some water. So as I was making my way out of the woods on a path to get water for a gravity bong, I saw a silhouette of a dude running full pace towards me. It had to be an angry neighbor-guy-cop so I jumped out of the way and into some bushes. My bud (the silhouette I assumed was an angry neighbor) gracefully skipped over my feet, says back to me "hey dude I got some water", I remain on the ground still all freaked out and covered in dirt and stems, and my other pals are laughing.
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