Cycling can make your bones brittle; here's how to stop it Add some off-bike activity to keep your bones strong and healthy cycling
compared recreational riders and trained male road cyclists and found,"Areal bone mineral density is lower in trained male road cyclists compared with recreational, specifically at the hips. Lumbar aBMD is low in both trained and recreational cyclists."
That's put a downer on your day, hasn't it? You think you're doing the right thing for your health by getting out on the bike regularly and then... bam! Jumping? Well, some cyclists include plyometrics in their training programme – where muscles exert maximum force in short intervals of time – in order to develop power. Maybe that's a good place to start. Then there's weight training...
Resistance exercise in this context refers to free weights, weight machines, medicine balls, elastic bands, and different movement velocities. More specifically, it includes Repetition maximum, or reps max, is the most weight you can manage for a given number of repetitions. • Developing bone strength is site-specific so perform two sets of a resistance exercise for each major muscle group• Rest sufficiently between sets to allow maximal efforts• Sports that involve unevenly applied impacts – 5 aside football, tennis, and so on – also stimulate bone strengtheningThe loss of calcium through prolonged periods of sweating has been suggested as one of the reasons behind the poor bone health of many cyclists.
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