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>Cycling is not a natural movement; the human body did not evolve for it. Incidentally, the seated desk posture, which resembles the cycling posture, is now known as the ‘fear pose’ and has been linked to a rise in depression over the past few decades. It’s a semi-foetal ‘freeze’ position which the body goes into instinctively when a perceived threat to our survival is deemed as overwhelming. And the cycling posture has the additional strain of aerobic or anaerobic demand piled on top. >Even with a good quality bike set-up correctly, this is the typical position of the body when cycling: Forward torso lean, neck extension and rotation, back extension, anterior shoulder flexion including biceps and wrist flexor and pectoralis. Flexion and extension of rectus femoris, gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, biceps femoris, semitendinosus, hip flexor, quadriceps, hamstring, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, medial gastrocnemius and soleus (calf). All of this is going on while performing cardiovascular activity, balance, orientation, and other tasks. >In terms of movement and where the force is on the body, the pedal stroke involves the hip joint, knee joints, and ankle joints. The primarily concentric muscle movement is for forward force drive. There is upwards and downward drive from the knee, cyclical foot and ankle motion, and hip flexion from a static position. The force load goes directly into the feet. Hence my painful foot muscles! The ankle, knee and hip muscles and joints are all moving at different speeds and rates of force, dependent on the closeness to the crank. Not only does the knee joint move up-and-down cyclically, but it also performs a slight lateral movement outwards-and-inwards to the side as well, sending uneven angle forces through the joint. So, the angle of gyration means all joints involved are moving at completely different levels of acceleration and angles of force, causing the energy distribution in the body to be all out of sync.
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>Flat shoe pedalling, which I did for about two decades, is all downward drive so the force is coming from the glutes, quadriceps, and gastrocnemius with lots of hip flexion. Regular pedals caused numbness underneath my kneecap from an overgrowth of new muscle. Cycling to and from work every day was allowing no recovery time and so the new muscle had no time to mature before the next new layer of muscles grew over the top. This was causing major muscle strength imbalances, so I switched to cleats for several years. My cleats gave me more power and upward pull which did help sort out my knee problems. However, having my feet now stuck to the pedals caused some nasty falls and injuries. Plus, the added upward drive eventually caused a forward rotation of my right hip from tightened hip-flexors which gave me continual lower right-hand side back pain. So, despite some great advances in cycling technology, the unnatural posture played havoc with overworked muscles. >I also noticed excessive strain on my back, neck, and shoulders due to the handlebar position. The muscles in my feet are still tense and painful in certain positions. When I was teaching indoor cycling in the evening and then cycling home, not only was I exhausted, but it was also causing lack of quality sleep, dehydration, and impairing my mobility. My back felt like an elderly person’s when bending over, not to mention the physical and mental accident trauma from falling off my bike a few times. I had to undergo numerous physiotherapy and osteopathic treatments to sort out the associated pains and imbalances. According to physiotherapists, these are common complaints that occur from cycling including Achilles problems and even nerve damage to the feet (which I was also beginning to get).
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>Phor me, cycling was a tense, fast, forward driving, repetitive motion, and it became a trigger activity causing tension and stress in my thoughts, emotions, hormones, and body. Psychologists call this ‘embodied cognition’, which is when the mind influences how the body feels and when the body posture triggers the mind. My lack of confidence in my life direction and manifesting abilities had attracted me to excessive forward-driving activities using ‘push’ muscles to literally push my way through life. To me, the quads symbolised and absorbed feelings about faith in where my life was going and my financial stability. The tension caused by these thoughts and emotions travelled straight into the muscles down the front of my legs and stayed there, tightening more over time. As Caroline Myss says, “Our physical well-being is clearly influenced by our psyche. As a medical intuitive, I have often observed the links between certain psychological stress patterns and certain illnesses related to specific areas of the body.”
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>After years of this pattern, I decided enough was enough and I sold my bike. Within a week of stopping cycling my life was transformed. And this is no exaggeration. My lower back ache disappeared. The tightness in my quadriceps and hip-flexors eased and my hip rotation was corrected. My shoulder and neck pain eventually disappeared. The pains in my feet eased. No more bike accidents! My body temperature normalised. I had more time to digest my food properly in the morning and afternoon. On my way to and from work I was able to read more, pay attention to my surroundings, listen to music now and then, and relax. I arrived at my destinations in a far better mood. I saved that cycling energy for much more relaxing activities. I was even relieved that I no longer worried about the bike getting stolen. Everything about it was a weight and effort lifted off my shoulders — literally, too, because I had to carry my bike up two flights of stairs at home every day. Psychologically I felt like I had broken free from a trance.
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Jesus christ lad... I hope you didn't read this shit because I'm not.
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i’m comfortable on my bike. maybe op is just a fucking retard.
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unironically reads like cope from some wuss
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>>1611057 >>1611059 >>1611060 >>1611061 So what you're really saying is that you're a genetic failure that can't physically handle cycling, and you made it worse by not having your bike adjusted by someone who knows what they're doing, so you kept giving yourself repetitive motion injuries.
Meanwhile the rest of us ride all the time and have no such problems. It's all you. Don't come around here selling your bullshit about """cycling BAD""".
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>>1611057 >Incidentally, the seated desk posture, which resembles the cycling posture ???
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>>1611057 >the recent spike in depression is caused by chairs k
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>>1611057 which is why they invented:
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>>1611298 I am never depressed on my Shimano Biopace(TM) equipped road bike!
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So the retard greentexted by OP didn't find a better bike geometry for himself, he just stopped biking?
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>>1611057 Fully seated position and rowing or stepping motion.
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>>1611057 >this is the typical position of the body when cycling: Forward torso lean That's where you're wrong, kiddo
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>>1611348 based and maynoothpilled
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>>1611061 I think everybody on this board knows what it’s like to not bike for a whole week...
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In the end, really, I just think bikes are stupid and silly toys. I never should have become a bike nerd. So many wasted years ruining my body and my reproductive area. I guess I'll get a beach cruiser or a recumbent and just smoke some weed and ride once in a while. Have fun being angry about bicycles, I guess? TTYL racers, unracers, anti-unracers, un-unracers, etc etc
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>>1611057 OP is you are experiencing musculoskeletal problems, I suggest strengthening/stretching/massage. It's about all you can do, other than posture and diet. If a bicycle is fucking you up, then you have much worse body problems to correct, because the most of us cycle with no issues. Also make sure your bike fits.
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>>1611417 okay boomer
now go massage your prostate, or whatever it is you do to calm down
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>>1611057 I stopped riding in november after riding for 5 years. Now that I think of it I can't think of a more cucked activity than riding a bicycle. Youre silent so nobody notices you, you have no protection from falling or being hit, people get in your way and step into you, it doesn't even help the environment and just causes neck and pelvis pain.
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I can guarantee you some retarded lanklet wrote that bullshit. He would have the same criticisms about sitting in an airplane seat.
