Originally Posted by
genejockey
I understand that it's empirical data, but 2000 lifetime hours is ridiculously easy to surpass. Let's say you ride 1500 miles a year, at an average speed of 15 mph. That's 100 hours a year, and all you're doing is 30 miles a week. Do that for 20 years, and that's 2000 hours right there. I don't know that I'd call someone who does 30 miles a week an "endurance athlete".
there are so many studies on exercise and aFib. this is a good meta study among the many
https://academic.oup.com/europace/ar...uestAccessKey=
approximately 5 times the risk for aFib! the study on cyclists specifically is kind of interesting, it compared actual former professional cyclists to golfers of similar age and other characteristics.
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a...9/1/71/2398434
unfortunately the study did not correct for the fact that golf is a horrible, horrible thing to spend your time doing and anyone who has ever ridden a road bike would rather be an aFib-ridden-cyclist than a stable-sinus-rhythm-golfer.