HOW MANY CALORIES DO YOU BURN BIKING?

HOW MANY CALORIES DO YOU BURN BIKING?

What are the health benefits of biking?

Here are the potential health benefits of biking;

  • It can aid in weight reduction especially high intense cycling, as it speeds up body metabolism, usage of excess calories, and fat burning.
  • Helps boost leg strength and overall body fitness with less stress or pressure on the joints and muscles.
  • May improve heart health by regulating cholesterol levels.
  • Biking outside can enhance cognitive functioning and mental health and ease negative psychological moods.
  • Enhances cardiovascular fitness, joint mobility, immune and overall wellbeing.

How does biking use calories?

Biking involves using body muscles that demand energy supply to workout. This makes the body convert the excess sugars and fats to the energy molecule ATP suing the oxygen you inhale. During biking, more calories are burned when the body converts the carbs and fats into ATP molecules to provide the needed energy. The faster you ride the more calories you burn.

What’s the difference in calories between slow and steady vs. fast and intense?

You are likely to burn more calories when biking at a faster and higher intense rate than when biking slowly. Most researches indicate that slow and steady biking can burn around 250 – 300 calories, while fast and intense biking burns 372 to 495 calories depending on your body weight.

What’s the difference in calories between stationary biking versus biking outside?

People can burn 210 to 260 calories from stationery biking and 255 to 377 calories from outside biking. 

What factors are involved in calculating calories burned?

The number of calories you burn depends on your weight, type of biking, and metabolic equivalents.

Ieva Kubiliute

Ieva Kubiliute is a psychologist and a sex and relationships advisor and a freelance writer. She's also a consultant to several health and wellness brands. While Ieva specialises in covering wellness topics ranging from fitness and nutrition, to mental wellbeing, sex and relationships and health conditions, she has written across a diverse range of lifestyle topics, including beauty and travel. Career highlights so far include: luxury spa-hopping in Spain and joining an £18k-a-year London gym. Someone’s got to do it! When she’s not typing away at her desk—or interviewing experts and case studies, Ieva winds down with yoga, a good movie and great skincare (affordable of course, there’s little she doesn’t know about budget beauty). Things that bring her endless joy: digital detoxes, oat milk lattes and long country walks (and sometimes jogs).

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