Does cycling help you lose weight or is it just down to a good diet? Si and Dan discuss the health benefits of cycling with expert nutritionist Nigel Mitchell. They discover if it is ever possible to out-ride a bad diet. There’s also news on why Mathieu van der Poel might give up cyclocross, and a brand new race called ‘The Accursed’.

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22 Comments

  1. I studied nutrition for 3 years. While there is some evidence to show that the average BMR of a hunter gatherer for example, may have been similar to that of the average over weight Brit, it doesn’t mean that the hunter gatherer expended the same amount of energy.

    It simply means that if a hunter gatherer were to sit on their arse the entire day, and do nothing. They would need the same amount of calories as today’s man, to live.

    They haven’t taken exercise or moving around into account at all

  2. Would have been interesting if you guys had done some research into the calories in calories out / balance model. Life’s just not that simple, and the science supports a different perspective.

  3. For me, cycling is a poor weight loss method. Better plan I have found is to walk. I do four days a week, about 1 mile. Way better than cycling. I'm 65 and had a gut that would not go away, now it is gone. I do eat whatever I like and have no diet restriction.

  4. I cycle roughly two hours per day (mostly zone 1-2 riding) and maintain weight on about 800-1000 more calories than what a sedentary person of my size should theoretically require. If I were to stop cycling altogether and eat the same amount of calories as I currently am, I'm fairly certain I'd gain weight. Since I'm only doing lower zone "lengthy leisure" rides that don't leave me gasping for air, I'm constantly wondering if I'm burning any calories at all.

  5. Not going to lie, I do prefer the -32*C with blue skies in Ottawa, ON, Canada vs the 5 months of grey sky in Vancouver or London. Either way, I now live in Dunedin, NZ. It snowed twice last winter, barely got below -2*C.

  6. MVDP comments taken out of context… he has nothing left to achieve in CX – but is sticking around to still go for the most number of Worlds wins (7)… he also stated this week that his best results on the Road are after a mini-CX season, which helps keep the preparation on point in the winter.

  7. I think Dan has hit the nail on the head. Someone new to cycling will feel like half an hour at 10kph feels like the workout that it is 😰 and may have burned say 200kcal – 2 choc biscuits-ish! Or a third of a 600kcal piece of cake 😮Trust me I've researched this 😂
    My understanding is that exercise is brilliantly beneficial in reshaping headspace and helping to make better food choices and a better, less processed diet fuels energy…..to cycle more. So in a few weeks you burn 300kcal in your half hour cycling by further and harder and so the (haha) cycle continues. Tim Spector rules 😅

  8. I'm with the Canadians on the weather, the South of England is neither, cold, wet or windy. After 50 years living North of Aberdeen, visiting the south of England was like going to the tropics. 😂😂 😂

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