I watched The Armstrong Lie last week and Alex Gibney made that quote. I found it very hard to believe. Is there anyone with more knowledge than me who could tell me how credible this quote is?
I watched The Armstrong Lie last week and Alex Gibney made that quote. I found it very hard to believe. Is there anyone with more knowledge than me who could tell me how credible this quote is?
Unsure Of this quote wrote:
I watched The Armstrong Lie last week and Alex Gibney made that quote. I found it very hard to believe. Is there anyone with more knowledge than me who could tell me how credible this quote is?
Not even remotely close. A blue whale sleeping uses more energy per unit time than any Tour rider has ever or will ever remotely approach.
Not sure...can you clarify the location of "Eart"?
A phan wrote:
Not sure...can you clarify the location of "Eart"?
Earth, I ran out of space.
Eart is how you pronounce it in French.
Recognizer of The Absurd wrote:
Unsure Of this quote wrote:I watched The Armstrong Lie last week and Alex Gibney made that quote. I found it very hard to believe. Is there anyone with more knowledge than me who could tell me how credible this quote is?
Not even remotely close. A blue whale sleeping uses more energy per unit time than any Tour rider has ever or will ever remotely approach.
Is it possible he is talking about watts/kilo? This is the only way I can rationalize this quote but I still would find it very difficult to believe.
I wish cyclists would shut up about watts per kilo but a Chamois running up a mountain to escape a Golden Eagle generates more watts per kilo.
Unsure Of this quote wrote:
Recognizer of The Absurd wrote:Not even remotely close. A blue whale sleeping uses more energy per unit time than any Tour rider has ever or will ever remotely approach.
Is it possible he is talking about watts/kilo? This is the only way I can rationalize this quote but I still would find it very difficult to believe.
OK, in watts/kilo: A hummingbird flying uses more energy/gram/sec than any Tour rider has ever or will ever remotely approach.
Captain Oblivious wrote:
I wish cyclists would shut up about watts per kilo but a Chamois running up a mountain to escape a Golden Eagle generates more watts per kilo.
-A chamois is a goat. What bird eats goats?
-How could a land animal possibly outrun a bird, especially a large bird of prey?
Recognizer of The Absurd wrote:
Unsure Of this quote wrote:Is it possible he is talking about watts/kilo? This is the only way I can rationalize this quote but I still would find it very difficult to believe.
OK, in watts/kilo: A hummingbird flying uses more energy/gram/sec than any Tour rider has ever or will ever remotely approach.
Gibney said they released more energy than any other animal on Earth except the hummingbird.
forgetful much wrote:
Recognizer of The Absurd wrote:OK, in watts/kilo: A hummingbird flying uses more energy/gram/sec than any Tour rider has ever or will ever remotely approach.
Gibney said they released more energy than any other animal on Earth except the hummingbird.
There's no way that's true either. Have you seen a flea jump? Or even a housecat? Have you seen a hyena snap a bone with its jaws? Even highly trained athletes are soft compared to wild animals.
might be wejo wrote:
Captain Oblivious wrote:I wish cyclists would shut up about watts per kilo but a Chamois running up a mountain to escape a Golden Eagle generates more watts per kilo.
-A chamois is a goat. What bird eats goats?
-How could a land animal possibly outrun a bird, especially a large bird of prey?
A Golden Eagle, dummy.
They can't outrun them but they sometimes try to. And produce a lot of watts per kilo in the process.
Captain Oblivious wrote:
might be wejo wrote:-A chamois is a goat. What bird eats goats?
-How could a land animal possibly outrun a bird, especially a large bird of prey?
A Golden Eagle, dummy.
They can't outrun them but they sometimes try to. And produce a lot of watts per kilo in the process.
Not only do they try to but they often succeed. For them to succeed they do not need to run faster than the eagle can fly. They only need to run fast enough to slip into a crevice where the eagle cannot follow.
How could an endurance cyclist have more power than a sprinter or powerlifter? I don't understand this quote.
Should Really be Added wrote:
Captain Oblivious wrote:A Golden Eagle, dummy.
They can't outrun them but they sometimes try to. And produce a lot of watts per kilo in the process.
Not only do they try to but they often succeed. For them to succeed they do not need to run faster than the eagle can fly. They only need to run fast enough to slip into a crevice where the eagle cannot follow.
That's evading, not outrunning but we're talking watts per kilo here.
A sprinting cheetah uses so much energy that it will drop dead in its tracks from hyperthermia if it sprints too far. It stops when it overheats, not from fatigue.
Unsure Of this quote wrote:
I watched The Armstrong Lie last week and Alex Gibney made that quote. I found it very hard to believe. Is there anyone with more knowledge than me who could tell me how credible this quote is?
No he didn't.
He said the hummingbird surpassed the tour cyclists
And I assume he was talking power/weight, not raw power
Bad Wigins wrote:
A sprinting cheetah uses so much energy that it will drop dead in its tracks from hyperthermia if it sprints too far. It stops when it overheats, not from fatigue.
Wrong, the cheetah does not abandon the chase because of overheating. It suffers stress hyperthermia and not exercise induced. The storage of metabolic heat is actually double after a successful catch.
I think Alex Gibney was talking about sustained watts per kilo. No animal excluding the hummingbird can maintain the power output of a top GC contender would put out on a climb like Alpe-d'heuze or Ventoux.
Yes, I'm sure they have monitored the power of all the great endurance animals to the same degree.
Captain Oblivious wrote:
Yes, I'm sure they have monitored the power of all the great endurance animals to the same degree.
I was merely pointing out the most probable basis of Alex's quote.