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Shortly About Cycling

Upping your salt intake is seldom your doctor’s advice, but in the few days leading up to a big ride or sportive, that’s exactly what you should do. This gives you the perfect excuse to munch on crisps and other salty foods you might normally avoid.

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Sodium Intake

The sodium in them helps protect your body against hyponatraemia, a condition caused by drinking too much water without enough sodium that can lead to disorientation, illness and worse.

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Get better at any sport

Whether you want to keep in prime shape or just improve your weekly tennis game, a stint in the saddle is the way to begin.

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Why Ride?

You’re helping others

The London to Brighton bike ride has raised over £40 million for the British Heart Foundation since the two became involved in 1980, with countless other rides contributing to the coffers of worthy causes.

Regular, everyday cycling has huge benefits that can justify you binning your wallet-crippling gym membership :

• Boost your bellows
• Burn more fat
• You’re developing a positive addiction

Biological Advantages of Cycling

Cycling Helps Sex

Cycling also help release brain chemicals called endorphin’s and serotonin into the blood stream which in turns give you a feeling of happiness and a sense of well-being.

Some cyclists experiences enhanced sexual performance, satisfaction and an increase in sex drive.Cyclist have more frequent sex and fewer erectile problems than non-cyclists.They also enjoy sex more.

You might ride to save the planet but you’re also saving your brain cells, improving family relations while expanding lung capacity, and increasing your ‘happy hormones’ as you pile on the miles. Ain’t cycling great! Just some of the 33 reasons why, says Matthew Barbour, everyone should get on their bike…

Sleep more deeply

• An early morning ride might knacker you out in the short term, but it’ll help you catch some quality shut-eye when you get back to your pillow. Stanford University School of Medicine researchers asked sedentary insomnia sufferers to cycle for 20-30 minutes every other day. The result? The time required for the insomniacs to fall asleep was reduced by half, and sleep time increased by almost an hour.

How it all Works

Cycle away from the big C

There’s plenty of evidence that any exercise is useful in warding off cancer, but some studies have shown that cycling is specifically good for keeping your cells in working order. One long-term study carried out by Finnish researchers found that men who exercised at a moderate level for at least 30 minutes a day were half as likely to develop cancer as those who didn’t.

Avoid pollution

You’d think a city cyclist would suck up much more pollution than the drivers and passengers in the vehicles chucking out the noxious gases. Not so, according to a study carried out by Imperial College London. Researchers found that passengers in buses, taxis and cars inhaled substantially more pollution than cyclists and pedestrians.

Enjoy healthy family time

Cycling is an activity the whole family can do together. The smallest tyke can clamber into a bike seat or tow-along buggy, and because it’s kind on your joints, there’s nothing to stop grandparents joining in too.

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How to get back your strength and stamina

Why cycle?

An inactive person gets tired easily and even a small work appears as huge a task to him.He becomes tired and breathless even after a small activity. That is because he doesn’t have the stamina to work hard.

Cycling daily will build up your stamina and increase the strength of your entire body to a great extent. It will also increase the strength of your body.

Once you start cycling regularly you will, after some time, feel much stronger and healthier and far more active than you were ever before.Many doctors and physicians claim that cycling daily plays a vital role in keeping the mind and body functioning normally as it burns down the excess fat (which hiders the path of flowing blood in our body causing multiple diseases) and allows a proper circulation of blood.Cycling keeps the homeostasis of our body maintained and balanced.

Recommendations

It is recommended by many physicians for their patients to ride their way on a bicycle to work and to use a bicycle instead of other means of transport to travel small distances.

Cycling is a non-weight bearing activity which reduces anxiety, depression and stress. Regular cycling leads to improved muscle strength and improved mobility and coordination.There are many components that constitute a happy and a healthy life, one such component is exercising by riding a bicycle on a daily basis.The average daily cyclist has the fitness level of someone 10 years younger.Cycling teaches the body to produce young energy.