Sorry but all the influencers getting on the running bandwagon screams a new level of disordered eating/training.
Cardiovascular exercise burns immense amount of calories, hence meals out/drinks and excessive training schedules.
Maybe not, I may be wrong...in that case I'll eat my hat.
But now getting a bike, because you can't run due to injury screams disordered.
Honestly (as someone training for a marathon but has been running for YEARS lol), I don’t get when people say this. Obviously for some people running will be disordered and an action undertaken for the sole reason of burning calories, but I feel like for the vast majority (like 99% of people) running is just a new trend and a form of exercise that is just increasing in popularity, and obviously in the modern days of social media, more people doing it leads to more people seeing it which thus leads to more people doing, in an ever-going cycle.
I was injured a month or so ago, and couldn’t run for a couple of weeks, and it put me in such a low head space, not because I wasn’t burning as many calories but because running/exercise for me is my mental outlet after a busy day of work and always has been. The relationship between exercise, stress relief and dopamine/serotonin release in the brain is CRAZY (hence “runners high”). So it makes sense that Holly (and others) find something less harsh, for lack of a better term, on the body whilst she was recovering because she/they still need that mental outlet. And when talking about cycling specifically, cycling is SO beneficial when either injured or even just tired as a runner, because it exercises the same muscles but is a lot less impact. Honestly I could not care less about the calories running burns, and if anything I was eating more than usual during this period of injury to make sure my body had enough energy to recover.
And also fun fact…weight training burns more calories than cardio!