pic: last year at the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Time Trial…for s(om)e reason?
i signed up for the Omnium (Road Race, Circuit Race, Time Trial) for this years’ edition…stay tuned to see
if i can flip my winter ski/snowshoe fitness once again onto the bike!
So, some cyclists have been asking about me swinging my wholistic Dharma Sword toward cyclng-specific athletes after my presentation; “Body, Breath, Focus” to the FLC Cycling Team. I just kinda warned the kids that – opposed to some organizations that try to promote cycling as a great lifetime sport – that cycling is NOT a great lifetime sport BY ITSELF! I basically, yet more eloquently, conveyed that two major things suck about sport-specific cycling:
1) the ‘closed-link’ cycling posture produces gross imbalances within certain musculature resulting in structural serial distortions within the pelvis and then, as a matter of course, the spine. once the spine/pelvis is out of balance? the glandular (hormonal) and organic bodies are next victims then, worse of all – imbalance of mind which leads to spirit.
and…
your feeble leader enjoying a variation of Ashtavakrasana in my home studio…i TAF that the longevity of
my athletic resume is directly attributed to my own practice of the Wholistic Fitness® lifestyle which
specializes in nothing and forces me to remain an Endless Beginner in all things!
2) because there is no concussion (bodyweight is suspended by the bike) in cycling, therefore, loss of bone density among sport-specific cyclists is pandemic…in my work as a structural bodyworker since 1985? by FAR the most brittle bones/muscles are seen among sport-specfic cyclists…
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