Benefits of Cycling for Your Body and Mind

Muscle strength

When compared to other forms of exercise, such as jogging, Brooke claims that cycling does not provide as much of a total-body workout.

Muscle strength

In contrast to, say, walking, "you can actually create more force through your muscles" on a bike because of the gearing system.

Balance

Muscle memory plays a key role in helping you maintain your equilibrium on a bike after you've learnt to do so. 

Balance

Balance may be improved by any activity that requires you to "feel where your body is in space and react to that," as Brooke puts it.

Heart health

Therefore, by giving your body a decent exercise on the bike, you are also increasing your circulatory volume.

Heart health

Good things are being sent to the tissue from the heart, and harmful things are being removed.

Low-impact

While Brooke acknowledges that high-impact exercise can have benefits for certain people.

Low-impact

The need of choosing low-impact options for individuals who may be more at risk due to muscle imbalances.

Low-impact

Many people are on the mend from injuries that prevent them from walking or jogging

The first thing to keep in mind is that there is more than one healthy weight, and that losing weight isn't the only benefit of exercising.

Weight loss