Talk:Bonk (condition)

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Contents 1 unsigned comment 2 Bonk vs. hunger knock 3 Bonk training vs. Atkins diet? 4 added {{sections}} header 5 article title

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It hurts to bonk! Gu packs every 20 minutes once your 2 1/2 hours inot a run!

[edit] Bonk vs. hunger knock

In the 1960's I had a cycling book entitled (as far as I can recall) "Scientific Training for Cycling" by a Dr. C. R. Woodward. In it, the author made considerable pains to distinguish between these two terms, with the term "hunger knock" being used for what is called "bonk" here (and in common usage today). He used "bonk" to refer to what seemed to be more a psychological condition rather than a physiological state.

Now, the book was Brtitish (there being a dearth of US cycling publications at the time). Was the distinction between the terms as discribed above common British usage at that time and subsiquently "bonk" taken on the physiological meaning or was this usage peculiar to this author? Perhaps some British users here can enlighten us.Wschart 14:03, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

According to my father, who has been an active cyclist for over 50 years, in the early 1950's in London and the south east of England the term 'bonk' was used by cyclists to describe a condition of exhaustion. In some other parts of the country, it seemed that the same condition was referred to as the 'knock' or 'hunger knock'. At that time cyclists in all parts of the country used musettes to carry food or other items, and in the London area, these were referred to as 'bonk bags' whereas, in other parts, they were called 'knocking bags'. In both cases, there was no suggestion of a psychological condition. Pheasantplucker 15:18, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bonk training vs. Atkins diet?

Bonk training depletes glycogen reserves to speed fat burning. So does the induction phase of the Atkins diet. So is bonk training ketogenic too? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 02:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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this article needs more sections and less introduction Thinboy00 ^talk/_contribs 03:03, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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Hmmm. I'm just a recreational cyclist, but in sports medicine in general "hitting the wall" is by far the preferred term for "bonking". sfahey —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfahey (talk • contribs) 16:00, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

"Bonking" is by far the preferred term among cyclists, in my experience. Cheers, Doctormatt (talk) 20:33, 11 April 2008 (UTC)