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As with any sport, to be the best possible, a cyclist has to know the best foods to eat. It may seem like an obvious fact, but the food a cyclist eats should go down easy and stay down. Variety and moderation are two words to remember when racing or touring. Moderation means there are no good foods or bad foods, but rather healthy foods and not-so-healthy foods. Variety is important because nutrients are distributed in many foods. No one super-food contains everything you need. A cyclist will burn more calories than a sedentary person, but that doesn't mean the cyclist has a license to eat anything they want. The correct eating plan will give you energy for an entire race or tour. A diet of low fat and high carbohydrates will provide the needed energy. While a high carb diet is normally taboo for a normal dieter, they are not evil as many are taught to believe. Carbohydrates are actually the body's preferred source of energy. Good sources of carbohydrates are fruits, vegeta...

Regardless of your age, cycling is one of the most enjoyable activities if done in the right way. Despite the gotten entertainment, a bike is known to be a great way of exercising and burning about 500 calories in an hour. The advancement is the manufacturing of new bike types has made the endeavor easier due to the included options that suit one's needs. The difference in size and variety in the types of bikes ensures that all of us have a chance to enjoy cycling activity. In this article, I will provide you with some experience Tips which make your biking enjoyable. Pick a Bike With the Right Seat There are bikes with hard and narrows seats that are particularly unsuitable for cycling over long distances or in rugged areas. I have cycled using many bikes and the only sure way to have fun over long distance is if you are comfortable with the seat. It is, therefore, advisable to pick a soft and full seat bike. Springs under the seat are supposed to offer protection in case of a...

There are many reasons to why we would want to lengthen our legs. Whether you just want to improve your looks with longer legs or want to actually increase your height, there are a few exercises to lengthen legs. Let's take a look at these exercises and what kind of results you can expect from them. Please keep in mind that I mainly write from the perspective of growing taller. Two Types of Exercises to Lengthen Legs From my experience, there are mainly two exercises to lengthen your legs naturally: Sprinting; Cycling I suppose you could also lengthen your legs naturally with certain stretching exercises; however, I have not tried them out and thus cannot write about it. For this reason I want to focus on the sprinting and cycling exercises; two exercises that can measurably lengthen your legs. Lengthening Your Legs with Sprints Whether you use sprinting or cycling exercises to lengthen your legs, they both aim to achieve the same thing: Making use of the spaces between...

If you are looking for the ultimate aerobic workout to add to your women's fitness and exercise program, give indoor cycling a whirl. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this indoor cycling exercise, I'll try and explain it a bit. Indoor Cycling is an aerobic exercise that takes place on a specially designed stationary bicycle called a spinning bike. In a class of other stationary cyclists, you pedal while motivating music plays and an instructor talks you through a visualization of an outdoor cycling workout. Emulating hill climbing and traveling down hill, you are sometimes pedaling as fast as you can, other times cranking up the tension and pedaling slowly from a standing position. Cycling helps you to focus inward and to work on your mind and your body. This is an ultimate workout for any women's fitness program. Cycling burns a big bunch of calories, if you feel the need to count them that is. An average 340 to 450 calories can be burned in 45 minutes. Cycling...

If you want to lose weight from cycling, you'll find that riding on a regular basis will help you do just that, but it will take time. To make your efforts begin to pay off in less time, you should definitely consider designing your own training regimen. Doing this is not as difficult as it sounds. For one thing, after riding for a few weeks, you will gain a few cycling skills, especially in handling your bicycle on the road. You'll also be more familiar with the main roads and the more quiet ones that feature gentle hills as well as flats. Even more important, you'll find yourself riding faster for a longer time.....and even trying to keep up with the (probably) more experienced cyclists who speed past you. How you wish you can ride like that! But you can. And you are taking the first step by focusing on training and losing weight at the same time! How's that for getting great results? The first step, as I said earlier, is designing your own regimen is by focusing ...

More than half of the population in the world is so much into the corporate life that people forget to take care of themselves. It isn't their fault, but the responsibilities that drive them to that extent. Many suffer from various kind of health issues like depression, weight loss or gain, blood pressure and much more. People take appointments from top psychiatrists to check what's wrong with their schedule because everyone has to get going with it. It's just the lack of physical exercises and fresh oxygen that an individual fails to adapt. Late night office, sleeping till nine or 10, incorrect breakfast timings are all the catalysts to unhealthy conditions leading to problems like depression, weight loss or gain, etc. To prevent such things, it is mandatory to get involved in physical exercises like cycling. The respective sport helps to maintain good health in an efficient way. Below mentioned are some of the perks that pedaling provides. Read on to know more. It stren...

It is now common knowledge that we are, generally speaking, getting fatter, more unfit and as a result of the first two less healthy than any previous generation that came before us. The figures on the number of overweight and obese people in our society are scary, and it's getting worse. Lifestyle diseases such as heart attack, stroke and cancer are taking an ever greater toll. Whilst there are many factors which contribute to the rise in our health problems, one of the greatest is lack of exercise. Our sedentary lifestyle, whereby we tend to sit most of the day, whether it be in cars, on lounges or behind a computer, is not one which offers much exercise in our daily routine. In the past many professions involved exercise merely from doing work, however the number of jobs which now exercise the worker as part of the work is almost non-existent. As a result it is incumbent on each and every one of us, if we wish, as we get older, to halt the slide into fitness, unhealthy a...

As we all know, sports are the best way to keep your body and mind fit. The outdoor and sometimes even indoor games help people to enhance their mental and physical performance. Cycling is the game for youths. Cycling is the best way to build self-confidence of doing something and to make ourselves believe that we can work even harder to achieve results. In this regard, summer time is the best time for the bicycle race. In this game, the majority of participants are youngsters. Cycling can be organized in day time as well as in night time. Just like in any other racing games, the track length in cycling varies from a short one to longer ones. There are some racing tournament that extends from one state to another. Indeed, a test of endurance. Cycling is an international level sport which is also helpful for tuning of the body. In this game, people push the paddle of the bicycle and in that case it's the exact and accurate exercise of the body. People who become obese due to any...