Cycle for One Hour and You’ll Live an Hour Longer

All you have to do is bicycle continuously and you'll attain immortality! Easy win!

Yeah, but that hour longer will still be an hour spent on the exercise bike.

Can I get a 2 for 1?<p>It seems like no net benefit as a 1 to 1.<p>What does 1 hour of walking give for ROI?

&gt; One study cited in the book even says that an hour of moderate to vigorous cycling extends an individual’s expected healthy lifetime by more than an hour.<p>An even better outcome than the headline suggests! Certainly interested in reading that study. Too bad the article is just an advert for a book, and doesn’t link to any research.

Reminds me of the The Very Slow Time Machine (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fantasticfiction.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;ian-watson&#x2F;very-slow-time-machine.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fantasticfiction.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;ian-watson&#x2F;very-slow-time...</a> )

That seems like horrible deal, is this meant to discourage people from biking? So you should waste one hour today you can use any way you want for not guaranteed one hour gain far into future where you are in poor health and hardly do anything anymore?<p>And if it&#x27;s about commute, can I read book or whatever I want during bike ride vs commute by public transport? I doubt that and I write it as someone who used to commute to work in Beijing on bike (though I would say that potentially shortened my life expectancy considering Chinese drivers).

The way I think of it is every day I exercise is another day I get to live. I have conditions that while not debilitating now will end up killing me (two obscure conditions that basically guarantee I’ll die of heart attack). Exercise is the best way of putting off death.

I grew up hearing the old &quot;smoke a cigarette, take 6 minutes off your life&quot; yarn, which makes me wonder; if you smoke 10 cigarettes while riding a bike over the course of an hour, would you be more likely to crash your bike or have a heart attack?

Horrible mis-citation. The scientific evidence presented is that the benefits far outweigh the risks.

So stop cycling? :(