Arm Motion

Hope everyone is managing to stay cool ( or are enjoying the heat if it's your cup of tea ).

An interesting article for those who are interested in human motion and energy use:

news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090728/sc_afp/sciencearmsoffbeat

I wonder how much of this applies body motion while touring?

Based upon this study I have determned that if I keep one arm not swinging and the other arm in the " opposite to normal" mode while skinning , I will incease my energy consumption by 6% perecnt but that this will be equalized by the loss of energy gain by keeping my other arm in "opposite"mode with the added advantage that I will look really stupid ( or at least more stupid than I normally do)

I think I'm going to try it !

Might look something lkike this