That made me laugh, I’ve got inbuilt extra weight (a load, BMI in the overweight range). My Dog acts as my personal trainer too, he regularly gets on my bike and is an extra load. Stick a few large bottles of water in your panniers and the extra load will add to the exercise.briansnail wrote: ↑1 Mar 2023, 11:44am Trouble with cycling is its to efficient one has to do loads.
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I ride Brompton and a 100% British Vintage
Later I laughed again as I realised that I’d confused loads meaning lots with loads meaning weight.
Cycling is variable in its efficiency. My most used bike has a three speed hub gear; I’m very happy with my SA AW - it has its advantages - but I feel sure that there are gearing arrangements that would typically be less tiring to use. Brucey used to train using SA AW’s, and I anticipate that he later flew along on derailleur gears.
I’m fairly sure that too much exercise does wear folk out, folk who do manual job’s don’t always have good health or live to a ripe old age. There’s surely a balance point and of course, though some ignore it, high intensity and high load activities can but use our bodies in ways that they were never intended to support. I’m no expert but have picked up injuries and simply got tired out from over exertion; injuries stopped further exercise for some time and it can take a couple of days to recover from being tired out. Moderation - what ever that is - seems best.deeferdonk wrote: ↑1 Mar 2023, 12:41pm I'd also assume that too much exercise is bad for you (to some extent at least) - just from a wear and tear point of view.
Probably outweighed for the vast majority of people by the positive benefits though.