With all the interventions given to promote weight loss, there has been a boost on the popularity of using a bike. It tends to be trendy since it is best for saving our planet and aid in our budgeting. What most people don’t notice is that it promotes healthy ways of maintaining homeostasis and effective weight loss.
A 135-pound woman pedaling 12 to 14 miles an hour blasts 488 calories in 60 minutes according to womenshealthmag.com, thus, burning your calories without necessarily knowing it. This could mean biking your way towards your office or the other way around. With biking to your office at least twice a week could greatly burn at an excess of 3,000 calories (equivalent to a pound of fat) per month, promoting a better way to achieve your weight loss goal at the same time saving you money and the earth.
One of the great benefits of biking is that you can achieve an equal body tone of both upper and lower body as well as weight loss, from working through your handlebar to pedaling. It was said in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics that biking increases your energy up to 20 per cent and lessens fatigue to 60 per cent as cycling stimulates your brain to secrete/release dopamine (a neurotransmitter related to energy).
With all the cycling, your joints greatly benefits from all the motions. Biking actually provides less strain on your knees, ankles and spine. Rebecca Rusch, a world-champion mountain bike racer, suggests climbing a hill. While pedaling down, standing would engage your core and triceps as you stabilize your body over the bike. One of the best things that we could benefit in biking, besides weight loss, energy upper and environment, is that it can help lower your blood pressure and LDL cholesterol (low density lipoprotein: the bad cholesterol) that are major risk factors for heart diseases.
Make it a habit and you surely will find great benefits for your health.
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