Im a cyclist, I ride my bike everywhere, I have great cardiovascular fitness and I go on hard bike rides often, its the only form of exercise I've gotten. Anyways it was too wet out the other night to ride my bike so I figured I would try running instead. It felt great, I ran 7 miles pretty easily despite never running before. The issue arose when I woke up the next day, my legs were immensely sore, calf muscle, quads everything, so so so so sore, and Im thinking to myself, how, I ride my bike all time and work my legs from it, why are they so sore from running?? Someone please explain this phenomenon to me, is running really working your leg muscles that much differently from cycling??
>Completely different muscle usage
>Repetitive impact mile after mile
>Balance, small changes in feet to stay up right
>Vs a bike just continuously cycling your quads and hams
On the bright side, it sounds like you have an incredible aerobic base to start with,
Yes moron.
Holy shit.
OP isn't nearly as dumb as me.
>be me.
>row about 120km a week.
>decide to run the CIM
>haven't ran a mile in 20 years.
>Mile 1 this gun be ez.
>hit the fricking Wall harder than Senna at mile 13.
>???
>finish with the 6hr pace group.
By comparison, I can steady state erg 42km with a max heart rate of 130bpm in around 4hours. Legs are thrashed and I've called outta work the last two days.
Now you know why running is for Chads only.
Cycling is zero impact. Worst comes to worst, your quads will be tired and your ass will be sore from riding in the saddle. Sounds like you probably already know this though.
Running on the other hand is high impact, especially if you don’t have access to soft surfaces like grass and gravel and other trail type things. Unless you train for it by running consistently you’re going to use muscles when running that otherwise don’t get used at all. It’s just a difference of impact on your muscles, joints, bones, all that stuff. It’s like how running downhill actually hurts your legs more than running uphill because of the increased impact you have against the ground. It’s not possible for a lot of people because of modern city/local planning that basically relies on asphalt and concrete but soft surface running would be much easier on your legs.
T. Spent 4 months cycling 300 miles per week when I broke my foot from a stress fracture
>I broke my foot from a stress fracture
Please elaborate
I was running 70-80 miles per week getting ready for my half marathon debut (don’t regret that part, I ran 1:21) and the morning of the race I couldn’t find my shoes, so I dug a pair of trainers out of my closet that had probably 500+ miles on them. The heel of the sole was totally worn down. Ran the race, feet and quads were tore up by the end. Took a week or so off and then got back to training and one of my metatarsals in my left foot was bugging me from then on. Felt it every step. I still remember my first long run back was 14 miles and after turning to head home at halfway I ran in the grass on the side of the bike path because it was slightly better than the asphalt. I know what discomfort feels like, but it was clearly painful and wasn’t going away. Went to a doctor that specialized in lower body, feet, and athletics, and the x ray showed a low grade stress fracture. Simple overuse issue, and the only one I’ve ever had for that matter. I’m probably on the luckier side, I know guys who have broken feet, fibulas, tibias, and have had back issues like Sciatica. My brother fractured his femur from overuse a long time ago. These things happen when you’re riding the edge of what you can handle but that’s the only way you’ll ever make it. So we risk it.
1:21…. homie pretty quick. Hop on the EPO mate and you can start becoming elite
Impact
Cycling has almost zero impact on your body which is why it has one of the lowest rates of injury of any exercise. Typically on a road bike you have more impact on your wrists than any other part of your body.
The high impact nature of running and jogging is exactly why everyone needs to do it at least a little bit. The biggest difference I find when I run versus when I go a long time without running is that parts of my body that would normally Bounce Around harden up. I do not have a very aesthetic looking chest but when I run my chest tightens up and off to just a few weeks back into running my chest is tighter than it's been in years
This may partially explain the difference in appearance between athlete and gymcel
No it isn't moron
Cycling is low impact.
Running is high impact.
Your cardio allowed you to outrun your body's capability to withstand it.
Cyclists injuring themselves running is such a fricking meme.
because cycling isn't running
>hammers sole of foot with body weight for an hour
y r my legz sore tho?
Will running on grass be better for my knees, how can I prevent knee injury from running?
glute and abs activation prior to your session
>Will running on grass be better for my knees
Yes.
>how can I prevent knee injury from running?
Don't rush the mileage.
do glute exercises. bridge for reps and 30 second holds
The same reason I can run 20 miles and be okay the next day, but a moderate bike ride has my ass and lower back sore for days, different stressors.
running is a different activity, like every step you run your body uses stuff like your glute medius to keep your pelvis level when you connect with the ground. just an example of ONE muscle that isnt even utilized cycling. lots of people negelect to train the glute medius, and so on longer runs their stride gets fricked up because their body starts flopping around fricking their running biomechanics up. just one of the many things off the top of my head to illustrate the differences. go stand on one leg for 60 seconds or two minutes. that part of your ass that hurts is the glute medius keeping you level and it has to do that every time youre on one foot when you run.
You must have at least three (3) brain cells to post on this board
A bicycle is a machine invented to make travel easier and more efficient. After over a century of improvements, they are quite good at doing this. Congrats on discovering this fact.
Shut up
It's your tendons and bones, running stresses them MUCH more than cycling does, so they aren't adapted even though your muscles and heart can do it.
It's a pretty common issue for a lot of elite runners, they get injured and can't run so they will do swimming instead until they can run again, then they get injured immediately again because they are still fit, but they atrophied their tendons.
now my foot is bruised and it hurts to walk even, frick running
>Why does slamming my body weight repeatedly on my legs for miles make me sore when I usually sit on a bike with no weight on my legs
Hmmm no idea anon
>cycling is useless for normal people and doesn't translate to daily life.
yes you got that right.