A friend sent the video below to me, hopefully as a bit of a joke, but I did watch it because the title (The real reason why older cyclists struggle with weight) intrigued me. I was expecting him to present me with the latest trendy reason, but he essentially spent the whole 7 minutes talking about calorie expenditure vs calorie intake, i.e. the reason we don’t lose weight is because we eat more than we burn.

I know that weight loss gets more difficult with age and that there may be other factors playing a hand in the background, but the fact that this guy has to make a video like this says a lot about a society that seems to be increasingly populated with people looking for excuses for their problems (if they think it’s a problem, of course) that possibly don’t really exist.

Now that I’ve had a moment to digest it, this video does seem simply a little click-baity, but I clicked, so you can too!