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That ~5cm is for 1 standard deviation increase in VO2peak. The charts show it increasing linearly with VO2peak. Too bad VO2max decreases with age (due to a line
by 762236 7y ago
That ~5cm is for 1 standard deviation increase in VO2peak. The charts show it increasing linearly with VO2peak. Too bad VO2max decreases with age (due to a linear fall off in max heart rate with age). I highly recommend Bay Area cycling.
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoWhat about for those of us that don’t live in the Bay Area? Are our brains condemned?
- 762236 7y agoIt depends on how safely one can cycle elsewhere. I wouldn't know, so I won't recommend it (but if it is possible, definitely!). But there are other options, such as rowing, running, Nordic skiing, swimming, etc.
- merpnderp 7y agoMy area seems to average about a 30 AQI, which I guess is good (it's 28 today). But I stopped biking a long time ago do to safety after many incidents, there's just no safe place to ride a bike in most of the US. To be fair, riding a motorcycle is far more dangerous, and people still do that. So I guess it is up to your risk tolerance.
- dfsegoat 7y agoExcept for the fact that the Bay Area has some of the worst air pollution in the country [1], and air pollution exposure is positively associated with loss of white matter [2]. So I would say maybe it's a wash? 1 - https://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/sota/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html https://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/sota/city-r... 2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132565/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132565/