What happens if you cycle every day?

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What happens if you cycle every day? Cycling every day is good if your body has sufficient time to recover. Regular cycling stimulates and improves your heart, lungs and circulation, reducing your risk of cardiovascular diseases. It helps to lower body fat levels, which promotes healthy weight management. Cycling strengthens your heart muscles, lowers resting pulse and reduces blood fat levels. Plus, you'll increase your metabolism and build muscle, which allows you to burn more calories, even while at rest. To keep progressing and improving your fitness, you ideally need to be riding your bicycle every day, even if it's just a turbo trainer workout. The minimum you can get away with and still see significant fitness gains is three rides a week. Below are a few lists mentioned if you cycle every day.

Reduce Belly Fat Cycling can help to reduce belly fat, but it will take time. To reduce overall belly fat moderateintensity aerobic exercises, such as cycling (either indoor or outdoor), are effective. A recent study showed regular cycling may enhance overall fat loss and promote a healthy weight. Obesity and weight control Cycling is a good way to control or reduce weight, as it raises your metabolic rate, builds muscle and burns body fat. If you’re trying to lose weight, cycling must be combined with a healthy eating plan. Cycling is a comfortable form of exercise and you can change the time and intensity, it can be built up slowly and varied to suit you. Research suggests you should be burning at least 2,000 calories a week through exercise. Steady cycling burns about 300 calories per hour. If you cycle twice a day, the calories burnt soon add up. Research done in Britain shows that a half-hour bike ride every day will burn nearly five kilograms of fat over a year. Better Quality of Sleep With all our modern-day stresses compounded with an exorbitant amount of screen time, disconnecting and falling asleep is tougher than ever these days. But external stimuli aside, a study from the University of Georgia found a link between cardiorespiratory fitness and sleep patterns. The study included over 8,000 subjects ranging from age 20 to 85 and discovered a strong correlation between a decrease in fitness and the inability to fall asleep and general sleep complaints. More Confidence All that newfound mental health could result in newfound confidence—which may or may not be a good thing. Men who exercise six or seven days per week have been found to self-report their sexual desirability as above average, or much above average. (Women also reported increases, but not as drastic.)


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