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Originally Posted by XXtwindad
A number of the recent threads had me pricking up my ears, especially given my profession as a personal trainer. The subtext - expressed either implicitly or explicitly - concerned weight.
I'm curious about that.
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I'm wondering if this preoccupation with weight, body image, and obsessive dieting is prevalent in the recreational cycling world as well...
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Not as much, but of course there are some. Always will be. Cycling garb is tight and the riding posture makes even the skinniest look thick around the middle.
As for the unhealthy obsessions, I blame le Tour for a lot of that. It's a ridiculous race that makes ridiculous demands and as a consequence some seriously unhealthy incentives; willful muscle wastage, calcium deficiency just sickness. Other races don't make those demands.
Whatever you want to say about Mario Cippolini he wasn't wrong to refuse the Tour for being unhealthy.