what a workout!

howdigetsogood said:

what does everyone think is more of a work out? jogging a certain
distance or unicycling the same distance? what would you say is more of
a cardiovascular workout buring more fat and what not.any statistics or
anything like that?

It's not a simple think to calculate. For instance, if we're talking
jogging vs uni on a street, it's way, way easier to uni. The wheel is
absolutely a mechanical advantage. I can uni way, way further than I
can run (even though I did complete a marathon a couple years ago
...).

But as with many things, the amount of effort/motivation plays a big
part, too. If we were talking about muni vs trail running, then I'd get
a much better workout from muni on the same trail, because with muni I
tend to go pretty hard--I'm motivated because I like what I'm doing. If
I was running, I'd be doing it with far less ambition and enjoyment, so
would probably end up exerting myself less.

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but how could unicycling be easier than running? walking/running is a
natural human instinct most everyone learns by nature.its easy. not so
with a unicycle i mean you have to move arms from side to side and lean
forwards and back to keep balanced runnings quite simple nothing
unstable about it. but i guess running could be more of a workout you
deffinitly arent sitting down.

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howdigetsogood said:

but how could unicycling be easier than running? walking/running is a
natural human instinct most everyone learns by nature.its easy. not so
with a unicycle i mean you have to move arms from side to side and lean
forwards and back to keep balanced runnings quite simple nothing
unstable about it. but i guess running could be more of a workout you
deffinitly arent sitting down.

For an experienced unicycle rider riding on flat smooth terrain is easy
unless you are pushing speed. However for a beginner it is a LOT of
work so maybe quite comparable to jogging. IMO

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You should see this fella ride up kerbs. He makes it look annoyingly
easy.
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When I do hard MUni trails with a lot of jumping up boulders and some
climbs and some downhill I really work all of my muscles hard and my
heart beats like a drum!

Especially the jumping. Two minutes of jumping or pecking up boulders
is the best workout and the only thing that gives me that "stitch" in
the ribs pain so quickly.

Unicorn

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howdigetsogood said:

what does everyone think is more of a work out? jogging a certain
distance or unicycling the same distance? what would you say is more of
a cardiovascular workout buring more fat and what not.any statistics or
anything like that?

All I can say is that when I ran regularly my resting heart-rate was
around 52 BPM. After a few months of unicycling instead of running my
resting heart-rate was down to 45 BPM.

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completion is an accomplishment, fulfillment. - BluntRM
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