Hop on a Bike For Fitness

This is what I do often.

Riding a bike!!   This term used to be such a peaceful term for most of us!!  It comes from our childhood where a bike was basically a toy rather than a transportation mode!!  Eventually, it became our way of moving around as a child until we reached the age where it wasn’t cool!!   There went the bike!!   Sometimes when we went to university it came back as our transportation vehicle primarily because of economics!!!   After we graduated, there went the bike again until we started a family and went out on peaceful family bike rides with a child seat on the back!!!  Talk about full circle!!                          

Here’s your next step and millions are taking it up and for good reason!!   Runninghas so many positive effects for all of us but there are so many negatives such as the pounding on our joints, etc.. Biking eliminates that as an issue general although not completely!!   People are biking everywhere you look!!!  Cities and states are adding bike paths and lanes to promote the sport!

Bike riding is an incredibly great workout, more than just transportation, more than an environmental saving device!!  It can be a fat burning machine!!    You can burn as many as 500 calories in an hour of moderately hard bike riding and this is for a smaller person!!  The bigger you are the more calories you will burn!!

It can become a means of transportation especially if you live close to your work!! Weather is a factor so it can’t be your only way, but consider it!!   Cycling works your total body!   Legs being the most obvious as they do a lot of the work but the quads, gluts and calves are projecting you along!!  Any pursuit of exercise increases energy and in the long run, will reduce fatigue!!   Exercise tricks your brain into energizing your whole body!!

Biking saves the joints that were deteriorating when you ran!!  It puts a lot less stress on your system than running, perhaps even than walking!   Your core gets lots of great work especially as your climbing up hills and you have to stand on your pedals to make it up the hill!!     Your triceps get work as well stabilizing the bike!!

The main benefit from bike riding, and I mean strenuous riding, is the cardiovascular benefits you receive!!  Your working your heart which offers lots of positive benefits!   Hard repetitive riding on a regular basis can lower your blood pressure and their cholesterol!  It’s important to achieve the most benefits from riding that you try to ride for at least 30 minutes at a sustained high speed.  Find a path, trail or route that will allow that!!

Many, many benefits from bike riding as there are with lots of great exercise programs!!  The key is to exercise and hop on a bike because it’s something you can enjoy while helping you!!  Theenjoyment is vital in any program as I have always said because if a program is torture, you won’t stay with it!!  Some might disagree but I’d love them to prove that to me!!    Good luck on your two-wheeled workout program!!!!