Cycling leads to bone loss...

[Dan B]

Or you could spend less time sitting down and more of it standing on the pedals

(Or take up rollerskating: uses many of the same muscle groups)

 

[airbrake]

i broke my hip on january 29th in a minor fall, i am titanium enhanced (two bolts up through my bone, the recovery continues, 15 miles every other day for the past three weeks, with the off bike days doing laps of medow hall in a wheel chair)

Sounds like you are making a fast recovery - I didn't try the bike for 12 weeks...!

the way i look at it all the years of cycling have increased my lung capacity to near normal, my recovery rate from near exaustion is better than most a lot younger than me at 46, bone loss which is treatable is the last of my worries.

The bone loss is treatable, but from what I've read we will never recover the calcium levels in the bone to normal levels : (

Soya milk seems to have benefits - I compared the calcium levels with my normal full fat milk and it had around twice as much per volume. Also, there is some evidence to suggest that the calcium in soya milk is retained better by the kidneys.

http://www.soya.be/soy-milk-calcium.php

Might see you in the Rotherham Health Centre bone clinic

 

[2old2care]

It apparently ended Chris Boardmans career. Theres a few articles if you google 'chris boardman osteoporosis' but there's a Daily Mail one here. I hadn't actually realised that was the reason for his retirement.

I think what actually Mr Boardman's career was that his body stopped producing testerone, so he had to take a testerone supplement which is illegal under UCI rules, doping etc!

Oops just read the link, sorry

Double oops, shouldn't skim read

 

[ColinJ]

I think what actually Mr Boardman's career was that his body stopped producing testerone, so he had to take a testerone supplement which is illegal under UCI rules, doping etc!

Oops just read the link, sorry

Double oops, shouldn't skim read

I made exactly the same mistake, only I managed to avoid posting about it!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

was diagnosed with idiopathic, i.e. cause unknown, osteoporosis last year after batteries of tests to rule out a more sinister cause. Calcium supplements prescribed ended up gaving me iron defficiency anemia! All better now.

Activity wise weightbearing exercise is what it is all about; but the injury which led to the fracture which led to the diagnosis was to my knee so I have to go softly softly. Thusly I've joined a jogging club and am currently on a 'learning to run' course with lessons 3 times a week building up to 5km after 10 weeks. My personal goal is to be able to run for 80 minutes/10km.

I've probably got the best CV fitness of all the learners, thanks to all the cycling, but am overweight, possibly I'm proud to be one of the fat-fit, and I can't say cycling to work the morning after a run the night before thrills me to bits. But learning to run with a large group, we've forty odd learners, in a club setting is a whole lot more fun than pavement pounding on your todd.

 

[Adasta]

But learning to run with a large group, we've forty odd learners, in a club setting is a whole lot more fun than pavement pounding on your todd.

It's funny how people work; I would say that running alone is preferable. In fact, I eschew most team sports these days since I find the team dynamic to be a corrosive one. I'm speaking specifically of sports, though; working in a team at work, for example, is absolutely fine.

What I find in a sports team is that egos take charge and phrases like "friendly competition" begin to crop up. People begin to jostle to "be the best". That doesn't motivate me at all and one of the reasons I enjoy cycling is the independence of it all.

That being said, I'm sure your running group is quite fun due to its size and lack of pressure.

 

[airbrake]

Soya milk seems to have benefits - I compared the calcium levels with my normal full fat milk and it had around twice as much per volume. Also, there is some evidence to suggest that the calcium in soya milk is retained better by the kidneys.

http://www.soya.be/s...ilk-calcium.php

Correction - although there was more calcium in the soya milk, it wasn't twice as much for the same volume. I'm afraid the eyes are going as well as the bones...

 

[PaulB]

It's funny how people work; I would say that running alone is preferable. In fact, I eschew most team sports these days since I find the team dynamic to be a corrosive one.

You think the same way I do on that one. Although I loved my running club, there were too many prima-donnas (still are) and people who committed the grave sin of wanting to be 'leaders'. I always preferred to run alone and still prefer cycling alone. Since both are excellent forms of meditation, why clutter it up with chatter?