Is bike riding considered a cardio workout?
September 6, 2010
Im trying to lose 20 pounds and trying to build muscle, is bike riding considered a cardio workout? If not please give me ideas. If it is how many times a week should i do cardio?
Yes it a very good cardiovascular work out, you can go for hours at a time with a elevated heart rate. You want to ride every day, start out slow until you get use to the saddle and work your way up to a hour a day or more. You want to start out with an easy 10 min warm up ride. After the warm up you want to always pedal at a high cadence 70-90 rpm’s in a gear that is easy to spin. That will use your slow twitch muscles that use fat as a fuel and can go for a very long time. It will take a few weeks before you really start to burn the calories. Climbing hills will really help to build and tone your legs and butt. A good diet is very important a fast food cheese burger, large fries, and a med Coke can take 42 miles to burn off. You burn about 35 calories per mile. Once you get into shape and can ride for hours at a time you body burns more calories even at rest.
yeh its a verry good cardio work out but if your trna make your legs n ass look good dont overdo the bikes other wise youll have massive leg muscles instead
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Natalie
Second only to running. Like all exercise programs a minimum of 3 times per week, one hour at a time. Best done at the same time as a diet. Calories burned 35 avg per mile. I suggest since it is almost summer, coming home and riding one hour each evening (about ten miles to start), then come home and have a fresh fruit salad and cottage cheese…. or my favorite, stop when 1/2 the plate has been eaten.
On weekends get in a two hour ride each day.
Get padded cycling shorts and a wicking jersey …. do not forget the helmet.
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biking is a very much so a cardio workout, but like any cardio workout it is only what you put into it. If you ride at a slow speed then you will not burn as many calories as if you ride at a more intense pace. It is also difficult thing to balance, as you will end up consuming more calories after riding to replenish than if you did not ride at all. Many people pig out after riding, which completely negates any calories burned. But sustained cardio exercise has the side effect of raising resting metabolic rates as well, resulting in more calories burned in a day without necessarily doing anything. The simple answer is to do as much cardio as often as you can for as long as you can as hard as you can for maximum calories burned. Whether or not this is sustainable is up to you, but for certain, some cardiovascular exercise is better than none at all.
If you are serious about weight loss, consider doing some serious weight training in addition to straight cardio. Resistance training burns large amounts of calories because your body has to burn them off as fast as it can to supply the energy needed to fuel the quick bursts. Cardio, on the other hand is more efficient at utilizing fuel stores, but can be maintained for longer periods of time without rest. An added bonus to weight training is the extra energy it takes to rebuild the muscle that was broken down and the increased metabolism resulting from increased muscle mass has a sustained effect that lasts days after the initial weight training.
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yes
114 miles per pound
eat less too
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Yes it a very good cardiovascular work out, you can go for hours at a time with a elevated heart rate. You want to ride every day, start out slow until you get use to the saddle and work your way up to a hour a day or more. You want to start out with an easy 10 min warm up ride. After the warm up you want to always pedal at a high cadence 70-90 rpm’s in a gear that is easy to spin. That will use your slow twitch muscles that use fat as a fuel and can go for a very long time. It will take a few weeks before you really start to burn the calories. Climbing hills will really help to build and tone your legs and butt. A good diet is very important a fast food cheese burger, large fries, and a med Coke can take 42 miles to burn off. You burn about 35 calories per mile. Once you get into shape and can ride for hours at a time you body burns more calories even at rest.
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Yes. Depends on how you ride it.
I ride a single speed (no gears) every day, so it forces me to vary my pedalling rate (cadence) loads – its kinda like being in a spin class. Spinning around n a single speed is a great way to lose weight. ( i) On any bike you can build in interval training style sprints to your ride to give bursts of high intensity training.
(ii) Hopefully you have thought through the difficulties around trying to both lose weight and build muscle – doing cardio workouts might help you lose weight but probably spinning around on a bike is not the way to be gaining muscle.
Fitness sites/forums like mens health will be able to help you think through both of the above.
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