Originally Posted by
cyclezen
FIFY...
If the issue is the knee, why would going anywhere else be the 'solution' /remedy ?
"but every time it starts feeling better I overdo it slightly and take one step back after two steps forward"
a resolution for an eye irritation is not a poke in the eye...
better to determine what is causing the problem,
your seat placement exacerbating the knee?
foot on the pedal, rotation issue?
too big a gear for an old farte?
sudden injury which is now exacerabated by stress of hard pedal strokes ? - they happen...
cardio is not an answer for mechanical injury...
working on lighter gears and smoother pedal stroke often help to resolve the injury, by reducing the causative stress, and also makes it less likely to cuase further injuries down the road.
side effect is more efficient pedaling and opportunity to build more 'power' down the road.
This happens to be a good time to do that in the No. Hemispshere....
... is this thread about something else...?
Ride On
Yuri
I'm simply giving my knee a rest, it's not like I'm working on my upper body and hopes that fixes my knee.
I've been cycling as my primary form of transportation to work since the mid 80's. I was married with 3 children and we were a single-car family. We didn't become a 2-car family until 2018 and that's when the kids were long gone. I only need the second vehicle (pick-up) for work I do hauling stuff, otherwise I'm still on the bike.
What good is spinning at a lower gear going to do me? Virtually nothing, I'd rather work the upper body, which is much more of an aerobic exercise than something that my body has tons of miles doing. When I get done handcycling, my arms are pumped and I'm much more worn out in just 15-minutes of this exercise. That tells me I'm doing something that is a real benefit.
I'll keep to strength training with the lower body to heal the knee, it's much better than doing something at a level that bores me, since I've been doing it for about 40-years.
Open your horizons and do something new
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