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Help! Are there health benefits to unicycling?
goldenchickenIV;1128582 wrote: Isn't energy burning a very narrow definition of "health benefits" which was the original topic of this thread? Yes it is, although it was relevant to the question particularly as it was revived by Ducttape. That it spun off into such a lengthy discussion shouldn't be taken as a disproportionate level of importance attributed to it though. chuckaeronut;1128568 wrote: This has been beat to death both in this thread and others, but I just found it funny that we're not talking about "extreme speeds where air resistance becomes significant." On any good road bike, air resistance is pretty much all there IS! (I'm assuming you're on a smooth road with tires up in the 120 PSI range.) And on a geared 36, just bending down over the handlebar will easily turn your 17mph into 19.5mph with the same effort. Yes, that was probably a poor choice of words and one that I backpedaled on since. To be clear, I spend most of my time on a bicycle at a recreational and commuting speeds, focusing on it much less than running or unicycling. I think the point I was groping for was more to do with where that increase in resistance becomes very steep with respect to increase in speed. I also think that the speeds that we're talking about have more to do with performance than exercise. I don't train for any kind of bicycle racing, but if training is at all like running then the "exercise" of training is mostly at a slower pace than the "performance" of racing. Finally, I think that the energy sinks involved in unicycling increase quickly with speed too - we're nowhere near as aerodynamic as a bicyclist, and it seems to me that the variances in balance that suck up energy on a unicycle grow at higher velocities as well. At this point I'm outside of the range of my systematic empirical observations though. It would be fun to explore these further with my fairly well calibrated magic number device. Thanks for your insights chuckaeronut. Cheers, Z -- boisei ------------------------------------------------------------------------ boisei's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16116 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/73064 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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