How to Lose Weight by Cycling

How to Lose Weight by Cycling

Cycling as a form of exercise for losing weight is actually a lot more than just putting one pedal encased foot in front of the other for rather long periods of time; it’s all about balancing routine with training regimes and changes to your diet.

The first obvious step is to get away from your computer and your bingo sites and get out on the open road or at least to a gym with a decent exercise bike setup.

From there you have to work out a regime that keeps things fresh and fun because the second you stop enjoying your workouts, the harder it will be to focus on getting the most out of it and the less effort you’ll put in when you get on your machine.

Also try to stay away from a constant cruising speed on your bike, mix in a few sprints and then round off your routine with a cool-down period that will keep your body on a slow burn after your workout is complete.

Next is your diet, try to eat early and often before your exercise, this stops you from snacking later on and helps to boost your metabolism early in the morning. Ideally you want to eat two hours before your routine, although keep your meal light as it will help fuel your session. The last thing you want to be doing is going all out on a bike with a full stomach.

When choosing foods try to eat anything with fibre, calcium, small amounts of fatty acids and high proteins in it, this will help to promote muscle growth and will kick start your metabolism into overdrive when you eat after an exercise session.

Keeping to this regime should result in you seeing quite a marked improvement in your overall fitness and a relatively large amount of weight loss if you keep to your routine.

But it’s not just external rewards, as there are a lot of internal benefits as well. For example, cycling is a great exercise choice because it’s a non-impact exercise, so that means it allows you to get rid of those bingo wings without damaging your joints.

It also helps strengthens the biggest muscles in your body i.e. the quads, hamstrings, hips and your glutes which in turn leads to an increase in your ability to burn through fat at a faster rate.

If you regularly participate in at least an hour a day of cycling you’ll also drastically increase the number of fatty-acid binding proteins and enzymes that carry fat inside your body.

By sticking to this routine of healthy eating and regular stints on a bike you should find that your weight will pretty much fall off, so in future when you decide to lose weight why not give cycling a go.