Bike Riding

Anyone else here like to ride bikes?
I usually ride about 3 hours every other day.
Is this good for your Health?

biking is pretty awesome!

Benefits Of Cycling

Heath Benefits

* Cycling minimizes the risk of coronary heart disease. Essentially an aerobic exercise, it gives your heart, blood vessels and lungs a workout, thereby reducing the risk of heart problems.
* A few miles of cycling per day assure trimmer and toned muscles. This is because your upper thigh muscles, backside and calf muscles all get to workout.
* Pursuing cycling helps a great deal in building your stamina. It enables you to carry out your day-to-day activities more effectively.
* For people, who are on the heavier side, cycling can prove to be beneficial. It manages weight and helps in getting rid of increased waistline and bulging fat.
* The pleasure and satisfaction attained while riding a bicycle alleviates all the stress, anxiety and depression of a person.
* This might come to you as a surprise, but cycling ensures a control in the level of blood pressure.
* Cycling enhances the overall fitness level of a person. It makes you breathe deeper and perspire more, thereby leading to a feeling of enhanced body temperature.
* Cycling has found to be effective for treating people diagnosed with diabetes and cancer.

Other Benefits

* A complete leisure activity, cycling gives you the opportunity to spend time with friends.
* A chance to meet new people and discover new places cannot be ruled out as well.
* Cycling is a complete environmental friendly activity. Unlike other means of transport, it lets out no harmful chemicals in the air.
* Cycling can prove to be the best mode to move around your local area without any difficulty.

And of course a works cited, http://www.iloveindia.com/fitness/cycling/index.html