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By Steve Outing on 6/20/2006 on Steve Outing's blog Anyone who rides technical downhill knows that it feels like hard effort going down. Unless the terrain is so calm that you're on your seat on the way down, you probably feel tired and are breathing hard by the time you get to the bottom. But it's still easier than climbing, right? It may sound counterintuitive, but technical downhill can give you as much as or more of a workout than climbing uphill. A University of Victoria physical education masters student has demonstrated that downhill riding indeed does give you a good workout. Check out this article on NSMB.e.magazine: "Dispelling the Myth of the Lazy DownHiller," by Cam Birtwell. |
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