Cycling is a great way of staying young – and as the BBC reported, can add years to your life – but work with your body’s changing strengths, weaknesses and nutritional needs and you’ll get better at cycling too. Here’s how...
"Regular exercise throughout life can slow and even reverse factors associated with the ageing process,” said Carlton Cooke, Carnegie Professor of Sport and Exercise at Leeds Metropolitan University.
He said too many people give up their usual exercise when they age, when what they should be doing is adapting it to suit their changing physiology and lifestyle. Here’s how to stay smiling in the saddle, whatever your age.
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Cycling in your twenties
In your twenties, you’re at the ideal age for shorter races, time trials or cyclocross
Your strengths
In your twenties you’re virtually bulletproof. Your bones are as dense as they’ll get and you’re as muscular as you’ll likely ever be. Wear your Lycra with pride and lick the competition from the race track to the sportive, even if you haven’t been doing speed work. Your fast-twitch muscle fibres, used for quick acceleration, are most plentiful in your 20s, and your VO2 max – the rate at which your muscles can use the oxygen pumping around your system – is primed.
Your weaknesses
The food fix
The fitness fix
Cycling in your thirties
Your strengths
Your weaknesses
The food fix
The fitness fix
Cycling in your forties
Your strengths
Your weaknesses
The food fix
Cycling in your fifties
Your strengths
Your weaknesses
The food fix
The exercise fix
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