An Overlooked Way to Burn Major Calories—Get on Your Bike!
Participating in exercise such as running or strength training to lose weight and get in shape is great.
However, many people in pursuit of a healthier lifestyle overlook an excellent way to burn some serious calories—biking!
Also referred to as cycling, this sport has the potential to burn hundreds of calories an hour. It’s also an alternative for people who don’t want to go to the gym or lack the finances to sign up for a membership.
Biking is easy to work into your daily routine and is a form of exercise many people enjoy. Here’s how cycling can help you burn extra calories and give you some great health benefits in return!
How Many Calories Does Cycling Burn?
The amount of calories cycling burns will vary per person, depending on factors such as how much you weigh and how many miles-per-hour you’re going.
A 150-180-pound person has the potential to burn between 450 and 750 calories an hour from biking depending on there fitness level.
Those are some major calories that few other forms of exercise are able to match. I encourage all forms of cardio but definately good to mix things up.
It’s important to keep in mind that these numbers are just estimates and won’t necessarily apply to your unique constitution, but the fact remains that cycling burns a significant amount of calories in a short period of time.
Health Benefits of Regular Cycling
In addition to burning calories, biking packs numerous health benefits. Cycling can increase your cardiovascular fitness in addition to strengthening muscles, improving flexibility, joint mobility, and posture and coordination.
Other health benefits of regular cycling include:
Increased bone strength. Cycling can increase bone strength, especially when combined with other forms of exercise such as running or strength training.
Deceased body fat. Burning calories can decrease your percentage of body fat, so you can reduce fat over your entire body for a leaner physique.
Better stress management. When done regularly, cycling can help you reduce and better manage your stress, which can result in a healthier immune system. Biking has even been shown to reduce the risk of mental illnesses such as depression. Also just getting outdoors is just fun and gets you away from you technology.
Disease prevention. Regular biking has been linked to a lower risk of diseases such as heart disease and diabetes which may lead to a longer, healthier life.
Biking might just be the exercise you’ve been missing out on to get in shape and lose pounds!
How to Incorporate Cycling Into Your Workout
Cycling is easy to incorporate into your workout whether you do it recreationally, as a way to commute to work, or in combination with your other exercises.
Cyclists often have an excellent capacity for aerobic exercise but lack the muscle support that’s necessary for other forms of training.
Combining biking with weightlifting can increase the health benefits you experience. For instance, lifting weights keeps your balance and coordination sharp, which certainly helps when you’re on a bike!
PURCHASING YOUR BIKE.
You don’t need to spend a lot of money to get a good bike. Look online on Facebook Market Place there are many people selling bikes second hand.
I prefer my road bike to go longer distances. I use my mountain bike to ride laps around my neighborhood when time is a constraint.
Either way just get on your bike and start burning the calories on your road to a healthier you!
about to burn some Cals