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Remember, Dr Baker is going out of his way to point out that if you feel good, you should not increase the intensity, meaning no more watts or a higher heart rate, but instead add in a rep or two. You can mitigate the risk by improving your technical riding skills, not riding in the ice and snow, making sure your riding position is optimised, and ensuring that your bike is fit for purpose and regularly serviced. They seem to either hear “midlife crisis,” or picture another dive into the realm of Middle Aged Men in Lycra, those out-of-shape riders who, for instance, appeared in those Danish television ads for the Tour de France.
But still a cocktail of pride and stubbornness prevailed over my body’s pain and inclination to stop. After screening our older ancestors from the Middle Paleolithic era – between 140,000 and 40,000 years ago – it became clear that a cultural shift had helped Stone Age grandparents make their offsprings’ lives markedly less Hobbesian – i. A 30-year lifespan seemed to be the upper end of the age spectrum for hundreds of thousands of generations of our ancestors for a very good reason. Cavell speaks with confidence for a reason, especially when the points he makes wave in the face of prevailing belief. For all but a handful of the 300,000 generations of our ancestors, the upper-end of life expectancy was 30 years old.Time's arrow traditionally plots an incremental path into declining strength and speed for all of us. The reason pros can train for longer at a lower effort is because they aren't trying to fit in some training around their job. Is this where old school training, my chaotic school (my basic philosophy was to ride my bike enough in the winter for adventure, fun and relaxation, to be able to race myself match fit-ish in the spring), and the new-data school intersect? Most of our parents and grandparents wouldn’t have participated in hard training post-marriage and certainly not after the birth of their first child, as soccer and netball were inevitably replaced with fondue parties and trips to the pub.
Personally, I like any activity that compliments cycling to involve being in spinal extension and not flexion.
Which isn’t at all how living with advancing age feels, since when we look in the mirror every morning, we feel largely the same as we did yesterday, last week or even last year. With this in mind, the author provides a laundry list of risk-mitigating measures and reassures the reader with a thought that is very personal to me. Nature is, in that sense, crushingly indifferent as to whether a 40-year-old ancestor outruns a predator or shakes off an infected cut. In this chapter, the author, who is widely known as a foremost bike fitter in most cycling circles, and co-founder of Cyclefit, gives an extensive breakdown of every point of contact between athlete and machine.
Bluntly, in evolutionary terms we are not really meant to be alive at all, and almost certainly would not be at any other time in history. We start the book with rather humbling first principles – that reaching middle age at all is a formidable achievement, as we’ve seen already.We see hundreds of midlife athletes every month and every year, and they're all trying to push their bodies even harder as they get into middle age. When asked, Are there any unique or specific bike fit, cycling posture, pedal stroke, or riding style recommendations you would make to virtual cyclists? As someone with biomechanical expertise, he feels that some drills, such as one-legged pedalling, are useless or injurious. Would I push myself to that brink of physical shutdown, either in training or competition, at my current age of 58? Phil Cavell is a bike fitter by profession and has had years of experience working with both amateur and professional level athletes.
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