Are we harming ourselves?

[sutts]

The Daily Mail (I don't read newspapers and if I did, it wouldn't be that one!) has a section today on exercise and in particular cyclists who are harming themselves by doing too much exercise.

I have never felt so good to be honest and I considering that I only amble along at 14-15 mph, I rarely put the heart under any undue stress, I wouldn't have thought. I'm sure none of us are going to stop, but is it doing us more harm than good?

 

[uclown2002]

 

[Rob3rt]

No.

 

[ayceejay]

is it doing us more harm than good?
reading the Daily Mail you mean? Yes

 

[lee1980sim]

Each and everyday, that's why we die

 

[Cuchilo]

I once rode with a GP and on the fourth time up a hill I joked that the hill was killing me . She replied its great for your heart .

 

[Banjo]

Judging by the number of Audaxers who are well in to there 70 s and I cant keep up with them I would say that cycling cant be too terrible for your health.

 

[Biker Joe]

The only harm it might do is to the wallet.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Hmmm, article in the Daily Wail suggesting cycling is bad for you? The motoring correspondents trying to justify their inactivity perhaps?

 

[400bhp]

The Daily Mail

 

[fossyant]

My mate recons you only have so many heart beats. Or that's how he justifies his size. Doesn't exercise.

 

[ianrauk]

My mate recons you only have so many heart beats. Or that's how he justifies his size. Doesn't exercise.

Better start saving some then

 

[stevey]

I took up cycling in august 2012 to lose a bit of weight was 15.5 stone, 16 months later and 3.5 stone lighter i am the lightest and fittest i have ever been EVER.

So if cycling too much is doing you harm i would hate to see what drinking 15-20 pints of ale/lager/cider topped off with a kebab at the w/end does to the most people,

Including those who complain about getting fat but do nothing about it except watch x factor and slob on the settee..... Rant over.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Sounds like this newspaper is trying to discourage cycling. We have newspapers like that down under too, unfortunately . I've averaged about 10,000 miles cycling annually for about 4 years now, and the only 'harm' it appears to have done me is to make me look and feel about 10-15 years younger than I really am.

 

[Davidc]

I was told by a cardiologist a few years back that the reason I'm still alive is because I was fit and took much more exercise than most people my age. The exercise was almost entirely cycling.

The Mail is as accurate as usual!