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cycling or running?

  • 16-09-2010 11:54am
    #1
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,191 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    Wondering which is better to get general fitness up?
    I think cycling but have nothing to base it on.



    cheers,
    pa.


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  • #2
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Depends.

    Minute for minute, running is way out in front. You'll get fitter, burn more calories etc. But it's much more likely that you will actually cycle a hell of a lot more than you will run.

    Cycling also has the advantage that you don't need a high degree of fitness to start, so someone with a lot of weight to lose can cycling without wrecking their knees. And you can use it for transport, so you save money on parking/bus fares.

    There have been a lot of days when I wasn't feeling 100% and would never have gone out running (to be fair, I hate running) but got on the bike, promising myself that I'd take it very easy, not push myself, just coast along. And once I was warmed up, I hammered along at my usual pace.

    However, if you are talking about running on a treadmill v cycling on a gym bike, go for the treadmill.


  • #3
    Giggipaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭Giggipaws


    dinneenp wrote: »
    Hi,
    Wondering which is better to get general fitness up?
    I think cycling but have nothing to base it on.



    cheers,
    pa.

    As Eileen says, it depends. Running is more intense; road cycling is different from the stationary bike...etc.

    I just thought to post here a link to Hermann Maier's post injury routine. He was a world class skier, and he had a very bad motorbike accident in 2001 when he almost lost his lower right leg.

    What brought him back to Olympic level competition was a stationary bike! He became so good in it that in July 2003 he was the first nonprofessional cyclist to enter the prologue of the Tour de France! :)

    His routine is described here:
    http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30726

    There is a video with pics of his leg, and his post injury training...etc:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUUxhZCSeGw&feature=related

    I am not saying that bike is better then running. It is just one of the examples when bike helped more, that's all :)

    All the best!
    Giggi;)


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