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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
What is Empowerment?
In management terms, empowerment is the act of giving power and authority to a person to perform his designated tasks in whatever way he wants, and having the power in decision making. Simply to say, a person is allowed to complete his job scope with minimal supervision.
Traditionally, an employee has to seek the permission of a superior before making a decision. In such a system, time is wasted in the process of seeking and waiting for approval. Instead of wasting time in this process, the time can be spent to solve a more critical problem at hand.
After all, time translates to money. As such, an employee should be empowered for the tasks he is very familiar with to begin with.
However, the older generations of management somehow express the difficulty of having to accept such a concept. Instead of giving freedom to their subordinates, they prefer to be involved in every decision to be made. We do see the similarities of this act with the autocratic ruling system where one supreme ruler sits above all.
Those against the concept of empowerment are probably too narrow-minded to accept something new. Either that or they feel more comfortable with the power in their grasp, instead of surrendering it to someone in a lower hierarchy.
Or they simply feel threatened having to surrender part or all of their power to someone else, with fear that the other person might topple him in the near future.
Regardless of the resistant minority, larger companies have adopted this system and the results are somewhat fruitful.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Schwinn Recumbent Bike Vs Treadmill - Can You Get the Same Results?
Most people looking for a home exercise piece of equipment find themselves wanting to get the most benefit they can for the least amount of money, and often run into sticker shock when they see the prices. This article will look at the Schwinn recumbent bike and discuss whether you can get the same results as a treadmill workout. This is all based on my experience with both of them back when I belonged to a gym.
My overall sense is that if you are a jogger and use the treadmill to jog it is probably harder to match the results with a bike. It can be done, but it would take a better athlete than me. So my comments here are based on using the treadmill for walking, just short of a jog. If you belong to a gym, it does not really matter, as you will get a complete workout as you progress through the weight machines. When it comes time for cardio, if all the treadmills are taken, you get on the recumbent bikes. If you do not like the news show playing by the recumbent bikes you use the treadmill. They both are designed to give a good cardio workout, with varying degrees of difficulty and resistance built in to their programming.
One thing to realize whether you use one of these machines at home or in a gym, you get out of the workout what you put into it. If you sit back on a recumbent bike and just pedal away, and do not go long enough or hard enough to get your heart rate up, then there will be minimal benefit. If you set the levels too low on a treadmill and do not work up a sweat, then you will not get much benefit there, either. Commitment and follow through to a program is the key.
Most often a cardio or aerobic workout is the main result you are looking to buy either a Schwinn recumbent bike or one of their treadmills to use at home. You will get practically the same results for either machine by setting one of the programs, calculating time/distance, set your target cardio range and push the machine and keep at it until you get there. You might need to look at the space they will take up or cost rather than comparing results.
The unintended results are another thing to compare. A Schwinn recumbent bike and others like them are built with an ergonomic design, which means it was built to distribute energy evenly and not fatigue any one area to get the most productive aerobic workout. The upright walking position taxes the legs, I got shin splints, the back, shoulders and arms. You have to really build up a tolerance level. For me, the reason I switched over to the recumbent bike was my back and knees and I was happy with the change. You have to be careful of your knees on the recumbent bike, but it is not the same pounding they get on a treadmill.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Basic Bicycle Repairs : How to Install a Bicycle Seat
Bicycle seat repair. Learn how to install a seat on a bike with expert tips on bicycle repair in this free video clip. Expert: Russel Hopkins Contact: SLCbikecollective,org Bio: Russel Hopkins has been a bike mechanic for the last 12 years.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
A Review of the Top Exercise Bike Ratings
Exercise bikes are still very popular pieces of equipment in the home fitness field. Although treadmills has taken over the number one sales spot, exercise bikes still get plenty of attention. No doubt, many people are drawn to them because of the familiarity of design. What can be simpler than the design of a bicycle? And riding a bicycle has very good health benefits as we all know.
But which exercise bike is best for you? Actually, the first question to ask is which exercise bike type best for you? You need to answer that question because there are two main types or styles of exercise bikes available for sale. One is the upright bike and the other is the recumbent bike. The upright style looks most like a normal bicycle with a seat and handlebars, and pedals underneath. The recumbent style of exercise bike can look completely different, with a seat that you actually lay in while you work the pedals out in front of you. Either type of exercise bike seems to perform well when it comes to giving you a good thorough cardio workout. So the choice is actually a matter of preference rather then effectiveness.
But which models seem to be rated the best overall? There have been several independent reviews made of exercise bikes over the years, and lots of consumer reviews are available online as well. By going through them, you can get a good feel for both the models that you want to buy, and those that you should stay away from. We have made a search of these available exercise bike reviews and ratings, and here are some recommendations that we can make based on our findings.
1. The Life Fitness C3-5 upright and the Life Fitness R3-5 recumbent bikes are extremely well reviewed and rated highly by almost everyone. In general, Life Fitness exercise bikes seem to get good ratings anyway. But these models enjoy particularly good ratings. They are both packed with features like 20 levels of resistance, an integrated heart rate monitor, and 10 pre-programmed workouts that you can choose from. Another great feature is that they are very solid and sturdy, supporting up to 400 lbs., meaning that even some of the largest consumers will be able to safely use them. And Life Fitness also stands behind their products with a very solid warranty.Expect to pay about 00 for each.
2. Another manufacturer that gets very high marks in many exercise bike reviews is Schwinn. Of course, Schwinn has been in the bike business for years now, and is no stranger to the exercise bike field. Perhaps one of the best features about Schwinn exercise bikes is how much you get for the money. They don't tend to come loaded up with all the bells and whistles, so if you want all of that you probably need to look elsewhere. But what they do give you is a solid machine for a very good price. For instance the Schwinn 113 upright and Schwinn 213 recumbent models only cost around 0, but they still have a 300 lbs. weight capacity, 16 resistance levels, and 10 programs to choose from, making it a great value in the exercise bike genre. Expect to pay about 0 for these models.
There are other exercise bike manufacturers and models that have received positive ratings and reviews. For instance,Tunturi exercise bikes have also been rated highly many times in the past by both product reviewers and consumers alike. But the two models we listed above seem to rise to the top of most exercise bike ratings and reviews on a consistent basis, and we feel that they would be a good choice for almost anyone.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
The 20 Most Popular Bike Brands Sold in the US
Well, this is certainly a controversial, complicated and constantly evolving topic. There are so many bicycle manufacturers, bicycle types and popular brand names sold in the US, that it can be difficult to find a comprehensive summary and to sort it all out.
The top 20 most popular bike brand listing that I've compiled here is not based on the number of bikes sold alone or on the quality or perceived quality of the bicycles. Most of the bike manufacturers listed here also sell different bike types (road, mountain, hybrid, etc.) and the list below is not broken down by bike type or category.
This listing is intended to be a guide as to what bike brands are currently the most popular in the USA, at the time of this writing (since bike brands come and go and the sales of various bike types rise and fall).
The Top 20 Most Popular Bike Brands and the bike types that they sell
Trek - Road, Triathlon , Mountain Hardtail , Mountain Full-Suspension , Urban , Bike Path, Cruiser , Women's , Kids Schwinn - Road, Commuter, Comfort, Cruisers, Electric, Mountain Bikes, BMX, Kids Giant - Road, Mountain, Giant for Women, Lifestyle, Hybrid (HCT), BMX, Kids Cannondale - Road, Mountain, Women's Recreation (many sub categories) Mongoose - BMX Bikes (Team Bikes, Freestyle Bikes, Dirt Street Bikes) Mountain / Pavement (Dual Suspension, Jumping, Hardtail XC, Comfort, Commuter, Road Alternative, Raleigh - Road, Performance Hybrid, Hybrid, Comfort, Mountain, Cruiser, Women, Youth Specialized Road, Multi Street, Globe (commute, comfort), Dirt/Street/Vert (BMX), Kids ATB Diamondback - MTN Full Suspension , Mountain Hardtail , Devine Designs , Comfort ,Cruiser , Performance Hybrid , Hybrid , Youth , BMX Fuji - Road, Mountain, Specialty, Women's, Lifestyle, Kids Haro -All Mountain-Freeride, Dirt Jump/ Urban, XC Trail / XC Sport, 650B, 29er, Metro, Comfort, Cruiser Shimano - Road, Mountain, Comfort, BMX Huffy - since 1892 - Mountain, BMX, Kids, Road Gary Fisher - 29ers, Full Suspension, Genesisters, Hardtails, Kids, Pavement, Road Ellsworth - High end Mountain Bikes Klein - High end Mountain and Road Bikes Jamis - High end Full Suspension, Hardtail, Road, Street, Sport Comfort, Youth Bianchi - Hors Categorie (HOC), Born for Performance (B4P), Coast to Coast (C2C), Dama Bianca, D2, Special, Classica, Road Steel, MTB Performance, MTB Leisure, Sport, Cross-Terrain GT - Mountain, BMX, Road, Womens Rocky Mountain - Mountain, Road, Urban & Path, Ladies Only Scott - Mountain, Road, Women's Junior's
Some of the popular bike brands listed here can only be purchased at specialty bike shops or independent dealers. Although this marketing technique makes these brands harder to find, in some cases this it improves the perceived quality of the bikes over brands that are distributed to the mass market or that can be easily found at sporting goods stores or even online.
I have included the bike types or bike categories that each manufacturer sells under the brand names listed. The bike type descriptions were, in most cases, taken directly from each bike manufacturers website in order to not only let you know what kind of bikes they make but also how the company perceives the bike types that they make and how they market them to you.
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