cycling is bad for male reproductive system. Imagine 107kg sitting on it, erm, not exactly sitting, but with those thigh(assuming excess fat) rubbing on it, it's torturing for your swimmer. Even the best saddle still have risk on it. Jogging hurts your knee. Go swimming. The best calories burner, and you dont actually sweat in the pool. You'll feel warm all over your body after swimming. Then go sauna, 15 mins, it will start burning those fat. Enough to get you down by 4-5kg after that a single exercise. But that is just dehydration, plenty of water loss, and fat burned. Rather than feeling flabby on ur stomach, you feel tone all over your body, chest, back, arms, legs, waist. Jogging and cycling are carb burner, won't really burn those fat. And you only tone ur legs, and partly waist, not arms or body. especially that piece of fat below ur armpit, if you have any.

If you can maintain for 3-4 times a week for the next 2 months, you wont be doing it for losing weight, but rather enjoying it.

This post has been edited by Aurora: Jun 26 2006, 07:32 PM

Ahh.... 2 wrong assumption. How bout running at 10 degree C in foreign country? Do you sweat? We sweat because our body heat up, and sweat help us to cold down our body, sweat evaporate with the heat. Heat dissipate when we swim, so we dont sweat.

second thing, we burn our carb first before we get to burn our fat. The body will tend to use up all the carb before burning the fat. Actually, you can run, or cycle, then go sauna, no problem.

Swimming is a better workout that cycling. Research has show that swimming burns more calories that jogging and running. How long do you take to swim 20 laps? Time is a factor, if you swim 1 to 2 laps and rest for 5 mins, and complete your 20 laps in 2 hours, that wont help. Your body just warm up and cold down, repetitively. You need to swim with short breaks, before your body cold down, you need to start the next laps. It'll burn you down pretty fast.

Also, the muscle soreness you get from swimming is different than jogging or cycling. It feels different.

Cycling wont directly hurt our reproductive system, not by pressing directly on it, but there's a thing between our reproductive system and anus, which most of our weight sit on it during cycling. It feel sore after a long cycle, and hurt that part. It's indirectly a part of our reproductive system. Hope someone from the medical field can clarify this further

AH... I'm a swimmer. Been there, did it. Have you? The article says the pool temperature is 29 C, 60% humidity. I dont know malaysia weather figure is, but that was pretty hot. I dont swim on that weather, at 29 C, usually after 5-10 mins of swimming will warm my body, and feel uncomfort. Common pool temperature is around 26 C. I ask the pool supervisor, (also a guard), they test the water sample each day. He also told me a lot about pool maintanence, water sampling, turbidity, clorination etc. I like it in the morning, or after raining, whereby most people say it's cold, around 23 C.

About the sauna, just to make things simple, I just put 15 mins, that's the recommended duration for typical person after a workout session. Max is 30 mins, I won't recommend that if it's after a workout session.

And for fleshwound information, I'm an ethusiatic badminton player. My sweat drip on floor. I can drink 1.5 liter of water in 2 hours of intensive badminton matchs. I can easily squeeze half a cup (100ml) of sweat. I go swimming on alternate day when my friends are busy. I do 20 laps, in 2-3 sessions with 5 mins break in between, 45 mins session. And i don sweat in pool, nor i feel the sweat on my forehead when i rest. If I stop for too long, and other swimmer swim by, I can feel a gust of cold water. It's because the water around my immediate area began to warm up. I'm not exargerating, it's true, especially rest by the corner for 5 mins without moving. I only sweat when i get up, took my shower, change and on my way home, walk 5-10 mins to home at evening 7pm would get my forehead, back, leg sweaty already.. It's because my body is still warm, so it sweat then. I sweat heavily and i don notice any sweat when swimming. It's because of water help dissipate our body heat.

I dont quote doesn't mean I dont know, I speak from my experience ok.

Ya, i read somewhere it hurts our reproductive system when we sit on the saddle.
I never run in winter before, just heard it from my friends though, playing soccer at 18 C and he come home dry and clean. Maybe the intensity of his activity and ur running is way different. For all I know, by means of air and water specific heat capacity, water is thousands of time more capable to absorb heat than air, per unit volume. I dont want to raise an issue here. So you sweat in winter, that must be an intense running.