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This popular exercise could help you live longer and stop knee pain
NY Post ^ | 05/20/2024 | Amy Eisinger

Posted on 05/20/2024 10:43:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

It’s the cycle of life.

Lifelong bicyclers may live longer, have stronger immune systems and are less likely to experience knee pain or osteoarthritis, than people who don’t ride bikes.

Although previous studies have already shown several benefits of cycling, new research now shows that people who cycle regularly have significantly less chance of developing osteoarthritis by the age of 65, according to NPR.

The study, which was published last month in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, surveyed 2,600 people with an average age of 64 about their lifetime exercise habits. All of the participants were at an elevated risk for developing knee arthritis due to either the weight, family history or other previous injuries. Researchers also took X-rays of participants to evaluate the arthritis in their joints.

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: arthritis; cycling; exercise; knee; kneepain; live; popular
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To: FreeReign; bray

FR really needs a grammar checker.


41 posted on 05/20/2024 1:09:28 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Gil4

I like to ride off road and paved trails and I used the Nordictrack to stay in shape when I couldn’t ride outside. Cycling is a great workout for knee muscles and cardio while being low impact on joints.


42 posted on 05/20/2024 1:13:54 PM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: TexasGator
I’ll bet. I used to ride a bike around Homestead AFB and environs. Coral road-rash doesn’t sound like fun.

The local trails on Oregon’s coast are geared towards the more serious trailriders. Hills. Nasty roots, creeks, big trees. I think if you stopped for too long you’d get run over. I need to find some low-key logging road ridges.

43 posted on 05/20/2024 1:28:20 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bkmk


44 posted on 05/20/2024 1:36:39 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: TexasGator
One of my friends from High School who was a tremendous athelete [he played professional soccer] was hit by a drunk illegal woman and killed while riding his bike in Miami. She got less time than some people get for burglary plus some probation. Makes me sick to think about it.
45 posted on 05/20/2024 2:10:02 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: TexasGator

It took you longer to notice that error than it took me.


46 posted on 05/20/2024 2:17:19 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: gundog
"I’ll bet. I used to ride a bike around Homestead AFB and environs. Coral road-rash doesn’t sound like fun."

Rural trail:

Urban Trail


47 posted on 05/20/2024 2:21:02 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was thinking about buying an electric bicycle. that counts, don’t it?


48 posted on 05/20/2024 2:33:27 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: PGR88

I don’t have a pool, and public pool operators measure urine content .... by the gallon. What I didn’t know as a child.


49 posted on 05/20/2024 2:56:27 PM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Get a bike!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZTvMYQSl_w


50 posted on 05/20/2024 2:59:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FreeReign

“It took you longer to notice that error than it took me.”

I noticed right away but it wasn’t worth a post. Then later I noticed bray’s error and did a twofer.


51 posted on 05/20/2024 3:37:32 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Melinda in TN

Rode for fifty years and now walk and golf. Good cardio and lots of fun.


52 posted on 05/20/2024 3:53:15 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

OMG!! Best laugh of my day! Hubby loved it. HAHAHA!!😂


53 posted on 05/20/2024 4:00:00 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: TexasGator

The roads east of HAFB were about that deserted. You could see a grasshopper crossing the road 100 yards ahead, and tell it was a grasshopper.


54 posted on 05/20/2024 4:04:14 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: roving

“I was thinking about buying an electric bicycle. that counts, don’t it?”

We have two. Love them. I ride about 50% with no assist but love the assist going home against the wind!


55 posted on 05/20/2024 4:12:07 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Melinda in TN

” Cycling is a great workout for knee muscles and cardio while being low impact on joints.”

My knee joints are better with the low-impact movement.


56 posted on 05/20/2024 4:13:29 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Just don't get deep into spandex gear queers and groups and sniffing other roadie masher's butts. Most obnoxious dickwads you'll ever meet.

Well, except for mt. bikers. :^)

57 posted on 05/20/2024 4:16:41 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: TexasGator
Is that a skateboard on that dude’s back? There’s a mile-long bridge, north of town that has sidewalks, and “Walk your bike- high winds” signs. Once in a while you’ll hear of some a-hole riding in traffic doing 15 mph up the bridge. Once in a while you’ll hear of one that got blown off the sidewalk into traffic. or just busted up his head, so it all evens out.


58 posted on 05/20/2024 4:27:54 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: FreeReign
Been riding for over 70 years. I ride at least 3 times a week now. Never been hit by a car.

Trikes and training wheels on the sidewalk doesn't count.

One of the events I've volunteered for as a ham radio operator was the Wildman Biathalon.

The first stage of it is from NH route 2 in Shelburne, NH to Gorham, nothing very steep.

The south on NH 16, miles of steep uphill, past the Mount Washington Auto Road entrance to Wildcat ski Area, by bicycle.

Then they run to the top of Wildcat Ski Area.

I was at about the mid point of the Route 16 incline.

The first cyclist to go by looked ancient. He was just zipping along, not huffing and puffing at all.

It was about 15 minutes before the next one, much younger went by.

I later found out the geezer was almost 90 years old.

So biking for 70 years and more looks doable.

59 posted on 05/20/2024 10:37:39 PM PDT by Mogger (AreIn bookstores is a very expensive, beautifully bound in green leather Holy Koran. If one was goin)
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To: Z28.310

Not a doctor here, just a FRoctor here, who runs and has dealt with it.


Welcome to FR.

It’s interesting how you know popular FR phrases/terms/posters, etc, for being here such a short time.


60 posted on 05/22/2024 8:56:35 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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