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Hi, my name is Mike Schlappi and I'm talking to you today about hand cycles. Again depending
on your disability and this and that pushing a wheelchair you know works your shoulders.
It especially works your triceps and you just, you use specific muscles. Well it's hard to
work up maybe cardio just sitting in an everyday wheelchair. You know maybe you can roll down
the street or find a steep incline, or yes they have racing chairs or basketball or tennis
chairs. But when you get in a hand cycle all of a sudden and they're all a little bit different,
but you're using more of this forward thrusting motion. But more than anything you've created
an avenue now where you can start to sweat. You can start to pump and you can start to
keep going. When in a wheel chair I can't just roll down the hallway in my house and
work up sweat. Like somebody on their feet couldn't walk down their hallway and work
up a sweat like they could go out and jog around the park ten times. So getting out
and getting on a hand cycle gives you an avenue to use the muscles, get your heartbeat and
starting to sweat, and use a few, a little, some different types of muscles than you would
just use just pushing a wheelchair.