Why Do You Need to Hop onto Your Cycle & Ride On?

World Bicycle Day (June 3rd, 2019)

Cycling is the Best Way to Get Away from the Maddening Traffic

Bicycle, one of the simplest, most effective and inexpensive mode of transport has become a child’s play these days. But thanks to innumerable articles and facts about the importance of cycling as an exercise that people now have a renewed interest in bicycling as a physical, leisure or sports activity. While cycling to work or using a cycle to commute was seen only as a poor man’s means until a few years back, its not surprising to see a CEO cycling to work or a businessman speeding down the lanes in his/her super-fast bicycle with all the sophisticated head gears currently. You cannot fail to notice youngsters who pack their bags during weekends and escape the urban jungle to visit hilly regions with their all-favorite mountain bikes whose sales have surpassed many other bicycle models sometime recently. Even you and I are tempted to surrender the trendy cars (despite its posh outlook, convenient cooling technology and capability to speed through lanes) owing to the sickening traffic and take a ride on the simpler bicycle to commute which would make our lives easier. With all this, the United Nations’ declaration of June 3rd as World Bicycle Day since 2018 doesn’t come as a surprise to most of us here.

Kick-off your Cycling Adventure
Cycling is fun, helps you breathe fresh air, become healthy and enjoyable. While we have numerous reasons to cycle, given here are the most-important ones that would motivate any of you to pick up a cycle and go out for a ride:

1. Pedaling does wonders to your heart, brain and blood vessels as it is a great aerobic workout. Cycling prompts the release of the feel-good chemicals making your feel joyous and positive.
2. Cycling helps you build muscles. You use many of the important muscles such as the gluteus muscles (in the buttocks), quadriceps (of thighs), hamstring (of the back of the thighs), abdominal muscles as well as your arm muscles.
3. Cycling boosts your energy levels and eases performance of everyday activities such as walking, balance, standing and even climbing stairs.
4. Pedaling is a great exercise that works well on the bones and helps to build them.
5. Cycling is an activity that can be performed even by those with joint pain as the weight is applied on a pair of bones in the pelvis unlike walking where your entire weight goes onto your legs. So, even those with stiffness problems due to ageing or joint-related complications are advised to take up cycling as an exercise.
6. A research study has come up with the fact that cycling to work or elsewhere has the capability to reduce the risk of developing or dying from heart-related diseases or stroke. Cycling is advantageous to the heart even when the individual does it once in a while. Such are the benefits of your bicycle.
7. Last but not the least, bicycling is a great form of exercise that’s good for your health, helpful in losing off the extra kilograms and keeping you in shape. It might even be a good stress buster which helps in elevating the mood and keeping you positive before starting your hectic day at the office.
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While we do have concerns whether cycling can have harmful effects on our reproductive organs there are studies proving that bicycling does not affect sexual health in any way. Detailed study results are available at www.firsteatright.com.

The cycle is simple, environment-friendly and has a positive impact on the climate. Its time to include cycling in your list of activities. Remember that no single activity can help you succeed in your goals as the journey becomes monopolized and the goal is lost in between. Its always better to juggle between exercises, maintain a healthy diet and live an active lifestyle to stay fit in life.