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I find that with solo riding, I don't really need to think about creating intervals because there's going to be parts on a long ride I'm naturally going to want to ride fast and there's always at least a couple big hills to push myself up. Do you monitor your heart when you ride?
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Basically, I think you and I are doing about the same thing, just at different distances and, I suspect, speeds. Don't get me wrong, I do some high intensity riding, I just don't monitor the heart rate, time it, etc. I just ride hard when I feel like it and slow a bit when I don't.
I cannot tell you how much I admire that your riding ability is improving at age 74. Truly impressive.
I find there's a sense of adventure and fun in solo riding that I just don't get with a group, and that motivates me to do more than I otherwise would. I really don't like to have to decide everything by committee or deal with other people's expectations, insecurities, etc.
I cannot tell you how much I admire that your riding ability is improving at age 74. Truly impressive.
I find there's a sense of adventure and fun in solo riding that I just don't get with a group, and that motivates me to do more than I otherwise would. I really don't like to have to decide everything by committee or deal with other people's expectations, insecurities, etc.
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I think you're kidding yourself if you think 10 minutes of any kind of workout is making much of a difference, and that's not the HIIT programs I've seen described as being effective. Whatever, I really don't have enough interest in HIIT to want to find out more or argue about it. I don't want to wear heart monitors and do the kind of scheduling required to make something like that a program. I do, however, love riding someplace and riding bloody fast when and if I feel like it. I get that my preferences and aversions to structure are not yours, that was my point. HIIT is, basically, a shortcut way of getting similar benefits to those of endurance riding. If I'm riding a fairly vigorous 175-225 miles a week (which I am), there's really no good reason to add HIIT to my routines.
Even the article says the best program is the one you can stick with. Here there's a trade-off of time vs. the pleasure of JRA. I'm not losing any health benefits, and I'm not having to do a type of riding I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy. The appeal to me of cycling is it feels like play. HIIT would kill that for me.
Even the article says the best program is the one you can stick with. Here there's a trade-off of time vs. the pleasure of JRA. I'm not losing any health benefits, and I'm not having to do a type of riding I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy. The appeal to me of cycling is it feels like play. HIIT would kill that for me.
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There's no easy answer. All of these studies are biased by the necessity of their suppositions and perspectives of their creators.
In other words - can we really ask the right questions to obtain really objective results?
As it happens I was part of several studies having to do with types of exercise and disease prevention. I saw first hand how researchers prioritize results that enhances their hypothesis.
In the case of the above comments - there's some truth - to all of them......
In other words - can we really ask the right questions to obtain really objective results?
As it happens I was part of several studies having to do with types of exercise and disease prevention. I saw first hand how researchers prioritize results that enhances their hypothesis.
In the case of the above comments - there's some truth - to all of them......
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That's not true. HIIT is a system of timed periods of high intensity alternating with timed periods of less intense and also specifying a maximum cardiac effort. If you can find hills that perfectly attune to those specified intervals, enjoy. But if I'm not wearing a monitor to confirm I'm hitting the targeted heart rate, I am not engaged in HIIT. That doesn't mean that none of my riding is intense. I hit 30 mph on the flat during an 80 mile ride last Sunday.
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That's not true. HIIT is a system of timed periods of high intensity alternating with timed periods of less intense and also specifying a maximum cardiac effort. If you can find hills that perfectly attune to those specified intervals, enjoy. But if I'm not wearing a monitor to confirm I'm hitting the targeted heart rate, I am not engaged in HIIT. That doesn't mean that none of my riding is intense. I hit 30 mph on the flat during an 80 mile ride last Sunday.
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That's always been my logic. I'm going to do that at least a couple times on any 100 mile ride.
I once got so annoyed with an argument I was having on BF with a guy who was attacking my gearing choices that I went out and climbed a pretty good sized hill in a 53x11 gear combo just because he said it couldn't be done. It actually was easier than I thought it would be, but not easy enough that I ever want to do it again.
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Same here, on the really tough hills where I have to downshift, If I am not at the 85% heart rate, I must be close to it. I am breathing very heavy and my tongue is hanging out.
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When the sweat is just raining down my face and stinging my eyeballs and it's only 65 degrees out, I don't need a heart monitor to tell me my mitochondria are redlining.
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This discussion has me curious if I am getting up to 85% heart rate on my "tough" climbs that I think I am. Don't have a heart rate monitor, maybe I should get one..............
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The longest living population, with the highest number of centenarians per capita, is the Okinawans.
The second longest living population is the Seventh Day Adventists.
These 2 groups of people aren't exactly known for their exercises. What they're known for is eating a lot of plants and relatively very little animal protein.
And in the case of the Okinawans, they don't need much medications to live long, meaning, they're not living longer due to drugs (but they do suffer from memory loss, I guess this is one of the consequences of living so long).
If you're into anti-aging, then diet plays a much more important role than any exercising routing ever will.
The second longest living population is the Seventh Day Adventists.
These 2 groups of people aren't exactly known for their exercises. What they're known for is eating a lot of plants and relatively very little animal protein.
And in the case of the Okinawans, they don't need much medications to live long, meaning, they're not living longer due to drugs (but they do suffer from memory loss, I guess this is one of the consequences of living so long).
If you're into anti-aging, then diet plays a much more important role than any exercising routing ever will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet
People from the Ryukyu Islands (of which Okinawa is the largest) have a life expectancy among the highest in the world
While the traditional diet has been subjected to repeated claims, population surveys by the Statistics Bureau of Japan reveals that, of all 47 prefectures, Okinawa has the single lowest average intake of vegetables and fruit, and the single highest average intake of beer, KFC, and raw meat.
Some people believe it's the diet...but living on islands it could be genetic...or lifestyle...
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I’m still trying to figure out “methylate your DNA”. What a bunch of nonsense and supported with no science at all. I suggest you go out and ride.
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Classic "is correlation causation" problem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet
Some people believe it's the diet...but living on islands it could be genetic...or lifestyle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet
Some people believe it's the diet...but living on islands it could be genetic...or lifestyle...
South Korean soldiers during the Korean war era had their metabolic markers compared to their counterparts the US soldiers at the time. And the South Korean soldiers did better in every aspect. In addition, South Koreans civilians at the time also had quite a healthy metabolic panels compared to the American civilians. In the South korean countryside, where food (particualy animal sourced proteins), an average South Korean male farmer had a cholestrol reading of 120; today this would never happen.
China, same thing. China before their cultural revolution, was an agregrian society, meat was a luxury. Heart disease was unheard of. Today in China, with their embracement of Western fast food culture, 1 out of 5 kids in major cities is considered obese.
India, same thing. Rich city dwellers vs farmers. Similar observations to the rest of Asia. Eat a lot of processed food, fat, and animal protein, you die sooner.
The "Mediterranean diet". People from the Mediterranean region had (past tense) a healthy diet back in the 1950. They didn't consume olive oil like the Westernized version of the "Mediterannean" diet of today. Seems that any diet that comes in contact with the West, especially America, will go down the loo.
The Seventh Day Adventists study is probably the best study of comparing meat-eating population to a semi-meat-eating to a totally vegan population. Their vegans are doing better than their meat-eating cousins, and because the 2 groups share a lot of similarities due to religious practice, the only major variable to their health is their diet (which their religion does not mandate what to eat).
On "island life". Let's examine the Polynessians. They weren't always fat and diabetic like they are today. Once they came in contact with the West, it's now fast food culture. Many of these islanders are exactly your model of great metabolic health.
Unfortunately, in nutritional science, there isn't many high quality prospective studies due to the difficulty and time need to conduct prospective studies. But this doesn't mean we should say "correlation isn't causation" and discount observations either.
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HR monitor isn't a necessity. I will use one occasionally but majority of the time I just go by feel....People were getting fit long before HR monitors were invented.
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The longest living population, with the highest number of centenarians per capita, is the Okinawans.
The second longest living population is the Seventh Day Adventists.
These 2 groups of people aren't exactly known for their exercises. What they're known for is eating a lot of plants and relatively very little animal protein.
And in the case of the Okinawans, they don't need much medications to live long, meaning, they're not living longer due to drugs (but they do suffer from memory loss, I guess this is one of the consequences of living so long).
If you're into anti-aging, then diet plays a much more important role than any exercising routing ever will.
The second longest living population is the Seventh Day Adventists.
These 2 groups of people aren't exactly known for their exercises. What they're known for is eating a lot of plants and relatively very little animal protein.
And in the case of the Okinawans, they don't need much medications to live long, meaning, they're not living longer due to drugs (but they do suffer from memory loss, I guess this is one of the consequences of living so long).
If you're into anti-aging, then diet plays a much more important role than any exercising routing ever will.
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https://www.bicycling.com/health-nut...u-young-study/
I suspect we all kind of know this.
A decline in walking ability has been linked to poor health in older adults, and research also shows that brisk walkers live longer.
It’s not clear exactly how cycling makes you a more efficient walker, but the researchers believe the answer may lie in your mitochondria—the energy producers in your cells. People who exercise vigorously have healthier mitochondria in their muscles, so therefore can generate energy more easily.
“The bottom line is that cycling keeps you younger, at least in terms of efficiency,” study co-author Daniel Aslan, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Champaign, said in the release.
Earlier research found similar results among older adults who were runners. The team is planning future studies to examine whether other highly aerobic activities—such as swimming—may also mitigate age-related physical decline.
It’s not clear exactly how cycling makes you a more efficient walker, but the researchers believe the answer may lie in your mitochondria—the energy producers in your cells. People who exercise vigorously have healthier mitochondria in their muscles, so therefore can generate energy more easily.
“The bottom line is that cycling keeps you younger, at least in terms of efficiency,” study co-author Daniel Aslan, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Champaign, said in the release.
Earlier research found similar results among older adults who were runners. The team is planning future studies to examine whether other highly aerobic activities—such as swimming—may also mitigate age-related physical decline.
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Most people who think they're doing HIIT are not doing HIIT. HIIT is not climbing a hill, it is max effort sprinting every 1-2 minutes until your legs are jelly. If you can sustain what you think is HIIT for more than 10-15 minutes, it ain't HIIT. Your HR will be maxed and you will be gassed, not really safe to do on a bike IMHO.
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Most people who think they're doing HIIT are not doing HIIT. HIIT is not climbing a hill, it is max effort sprinting every 1-2 minutes until your legs are jelly. If you can sustain what you think is HIIT for more than 10-15 minutes, it ain't HIIT. Your HR will be maxed and you will be gassed, not really safe to do on a bike IMHO.
And this is why I don't have any interest in doing it. Sounds like about as much fun as a surgical procedure, and my entire reason for preferring cycling to other forms of working out is because cycling is fun. If my primary concern was "efficiency", I'd be doing something other than cycling.
YMMV--if you find HIIT cycling fun or you don't hate it, I'm not going to argue with you. My whole argument in this thread has been that personal preferences are as important as any "science" because the scientifically perfect workout is perfectly useless if you can't make yourself do it.
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Most people who think they're doing HIIT are not doing HIIT. HIIT is not climbing a hill, it is max effort sprinting every 1-2 minutes until your legs are jelly. If you can sustain what you think is HIIT for more than 10-15 minutes, it ain't HIIT. Your HR will be maxed and you will be gassed, not really safe to do on a bike IMHO.