You Are a Hybrid - GreenHybrid

Delta Flyer · #1 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 11:17 AM

The human body resembles the hybrid.

You have fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles. Think: fast twich=hybrid assist or IMA - slow-twich=gas engine.

When you start to run or walk, both fast-twich and slow-twich muscles work, just like both the electric assist and gas engine work from a standstill. When you jog, just the slow-twich muscles work. Like the gas engine, they need oxygen, but have high endurance.

When you work at about 80% or more of your maximum heart rate, fast-twitch muscles go to work. It's a lot like the IMA engaging when passing. Both don't need oxygen and can last only a few minutes before exhaustion.

As a person exercises more, the fast-twitch muscles become more efficient - sort of like the Insight going into lean burn.

Glyocgen is what fuels the body most efficiently, as gas does a Honda hybrid. Fat can be burned with glyocgen, but never alone. It's like batteries will assist a Honda, but always with a little bit of gasoline....

Have to switch vehicles for "hitting the wall" on marathons. That is when a runner is completely out of glyocgen and their available energy dramatically drops off. This is sort of like a Prius running out of gas and having to limp to a gas station in EV mode.

Hondasucks · #2 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Delta Flyer

The human body resembles the hybrid.

You have fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles. Think: fast twich=hybrid assist or IMA - slow-twich=gas engine.

When you start to run or walk, both fast-twich and slow-twich muscles work, just like both the electric assist and gas engine work from a standstill. When you jog, just the slow-twich muscles work. Like the gas engine, they need oxygen, but have high endurance.

When you work at about 80% or more of your maximum heart rate, fast-twitch muscles go to work. It's a lot like the IMA engaging when passing. Both don't need oxygen and can last only a few minutes before exhaustion.

As a person exercises more, the fast-twitch muscles become more efficient - sort of like the Insight going into lean burn.

Glyocgen is what fuels the body most efficiently, as gas does a Honda hybrid. Fat can be burned with glyocgen, but never alone. It's like batteries will assist a Honda, but always with a little bit of gasoline....

Have to switch vehicles for "hitting the wall" on marathons. That is when a runner is completely out of glyocgen and their available energy dramatically drops off. This is sort of like a Prius running out of gas and having to limp to a gas station in EV mode.

Good analogy tho i think you would be a tad more correct if you made the statement that the human body alone resembles a machine, since there is an inifinite number of processes going on to create that twitch, not just 2

Now if you take a human with a weak heart (Insight gas engine) and add a pacepaker (Insight Electric engine) to meet the goal of life,(Insight propulsion) then i would agree

ralph_dog · #3 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Delta Flyer

The human body resembles the hybrid.

You have fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles. Think: fast twich=hybrid assist or IMA - slow-twich=gas engine.

When you start to run or walk, both fast-twich and slow-twich muscles work, just like both the electric assist and gas engine work from a standstill. When you jog, just the slow-twich muscles work. Like the gas engine, they need oxygen, but have high endurance.

When you work at about 80% or more of your maximum heart rate, fast-twitch muscles go to work. It's a lot like the IMA engaging when passing. Both don't need oxygen and can last only a few minutes before exhaustion.

As a person exercises more, the fast-twitch muscles become more efficient - sort of like the Insight going into lean burn.

Glyocgen is what fuels the body most efficiently, as gas does a Honda hybrid. Fat can be burned with glyocgen, but never alone. It's like batteries will assist a Honda, but always with a little bit of gasoline....

Have to switch vehicles for "hitting the wall" on marathons. That is when a runner is completely out of glyocgen and their available energy dramatically drops off. This is sort of like a Prius running out of gas and having to limp to a gas station in EV mode.

Where does all the ethanol fit in?? I prefer the E85 myself, with a couple of cubes of H2O for a hydrogen "kick".....

Delta Flyer · #4 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ralph_dog

Where does all the ethanol fit in?? I prefer the E85 myself, with a couple of cubes of H2O for a hydrogen "kick".....

For long-distance runners, they carb-up and drink plenty of fluids in the days prior to the big race. I bet you will find a lot of pasta dishes ordered the weekend before the Boston Marathon.

....adding to the human/hybrid analogy, both fat and batteries are a reserve and not as efficient as the primary source of energy. In humans, that is glyocgen (carbs are the best source of this). In cars, it's gas.

foo monkey · #5 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 10:52 PM

WTF? No really. WTF?

tigerhonaker · #6 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by foo monkey

WTF? No really. WTF?

Does WTF, Stand for? (Where's The Food) ? Interesting Comment.

Terry