6 Reasons Why Biking Can Help You Lose Weight
Bicycling magazine has published a good article on how bicycling can help you lose weight. Most of it is spot-on and emphasizes the fat-burning ability of aerobic exercise like cycling.
An example is their reason #3: Trains muscles to burn more fat.
Cycling, especially long, steady rides, builds hundreds of thousands of capillaries in your legs, which means you can deliver more oxygen-rich blood to your working muscles. Your mitochondria
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November 12, 2012 6:16 AM
November 13, 2012
2:10 am #comment-1
Additional take-away, which was funny since it was just this thing I was mentioning in class this evening. We always tell clients to “stay connected”, “full revolutions”, “pull up”. They point out in this article that your hamstrings are one of the bigger muscles in the body, but it’s also one of the ones that doesn’t get adequately exercised. You don’t really realize how weak these are until you pop one (old martial arts injury in my cass). I often tell student that if you’re only pushing down on the pedal that you’re only getting half the workout, while not technically accurate it does express a point. It’s that pulling up motion that engages the muscles that make up the “hamstring” to strengthen them, and the stronger they are, the less prone to injury they are.
November 14, 2012
5:07 am #comment-2
Spot on!! One of the cues I use to get people to engage hams and glutes it “Be light on the pedals, don’t be a masher, pull up, pull up!”