Health promotion with bicycles
Efforts to utilize bicycles to promote health have begun. On June 8, 2018, the government decided on a bicycle utilization promotion plan aimed at reducing environmental burden and promoting health etc. at the Cabinet.
Many people feel that bicycles seem to be healthier than cars and trains. How does it work in concrete terms?
Health effect: aerobic exercise
Aerobic exercise is said to be good for the body, the bicycle is representative of its aerobic exercise! By repeating the aerobic exercise you can expect the following health benefits.
- Energy source: Use oxygen to burn saccharides and fat in the body.
- Effect: Improvement of cardiopulmonary function, improvement of flexibility of blood vessel, reduction of body fat, etc. can be expected
Health effect: for change of pace and stress
Riding a bicycle outside is a good mood. Stress can be greatly exerted by basking in the sunlight and running the wind. As the body warms by exercise, the muscle tension relaxes, the parasympathetic nerves working when relaxing work, there is also the effect of improving mood.
Although it is a bicycle that has merit to eliminate the lack of exercise, it is important to ride continuously. It is said that it is ideal to ride more than 20 minutes every day.
Although it is for health, it takes time and effort to ride a bicycle for more than 20 minutes even though there is no daily service.
Try using the bicycle well in accordance with your lifestyle, such as commuting or going to school.
Bicycles and Diet
Being able to expect such as reduction of body fat, it means that there is a diet effect. The bicycle diet is attracting popularity with ease of being able to use commuting and commute time as a time of exercise for bicycle commuting etc.
Calories burned for bicycle diet
You can consume about 140 kcal of calories by bicycle riding for 20 minutes which is said to be ideal of aerobic exercise.
・10 minutes = about 70 kilocalories: boiled eggs L size about 1 piece
・20 minutes = Approximately 140 kilocalories: (8 sheets off) 1 bread piece
・30 minutes = About 210 kilocalories: Tunamayo 1 rice ball
・1 hour = about 420 kilocalories: cup udon (red fox) 1 piece
Consumed calorie (kcal) = 1.05 × METs × time × weight (kg) (Calculated when weighing 50 kg slowly)
By bicycle 20 minutes is in a blink of an eye. You can consume calories comfortably compared to other exercises, you can continue dieting reasonably.
