Re: BBC Article: Bike Now to Avoid Senility

Simon Brooke wrote:

in message <qqP9VvLavrTDFw53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sue White
('Sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx') wrote:


Bill <bbaka@xxxxxxxxxxx> whizzed past me shouting

Chris Malcolm wrote:

I recall a long time ago a doctor posting here that IIRC
nobody over the age of 50 could stand on one leg with their eyes
closed. As usual this turned out to be a couch potato statistic that
didn't necessarily apply to cyclists, but there is a tendency to
degeneration of balance with age.


I am over 50 (57) and can stand on one leg with my eyes closed in the
dark if need be, so what the heck is the correlation here?


It's now been shown that balance is a 'use it or lose it' thing.

Older people who 'keep in practice' like Bill will have better balance
that those who don't mess about standing on one leg or doing
headstands. As we get older, we tend to get more solemn and to play
about less, and for most people that's the main reason our balance
deteriorates.



Well, I'm still under fifty (by four days), and I've tried it and I can't
- at least, not for more than a minute or so. So just riding a bike
regularly clearly isn't necessarily sufficient exercise of the balance
system.


But I thought you were the circus performer who could balance a bike without steering it...

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