Contents:
- Medical Video: Exercise is Medicine: The Benefits of Cycling to Work
- 1. Control your weight
- 2. Reducing the risk of heart and blood vessel disease
- 3. Reducing the risk of cancer
- 4. Reducing the risk of diabetes
- 5. Increases the body's strength, balance and muscle coordination
- 6. Reducing stress
Medical Video: Exercise is Medicine: The Benefits of Cycling to Work
You certainly know what prizes are often given by President Jokowi on every quiz he gives? Yes, bicycle. This two-wheeled vehicle can be found at the time car Free Day to exercise. However, do you know what are the benefits of cycling on health?
If not, here are some of the health benefits of cycling that you need to know.
1. Control your weight
Cycling is a good way to control or lose weight, because cycling can increase metabolic rates, build muscle, and burn body fat. Cycling helps you to ensure that your energy expenditure is greater than your energy intake, because you burn calories while cycling.
If you try to lose weight, you need to combine cycling activities with a healthy diet. How many calories you burn when cycling will depend on how long, how far, and how fast you ride. But a study has found that cycling half an hour every day will burn nearly five kilograms of fat more than a year.
2. Reducing the risk of heart and blood vessel disease
Regular cycling can stimulate and repair the heart, lungs, blood circulation, and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Cycling will strengthen the heart muscle and reduce the level of fat in the blood. This is evidenced in a study in Denmark which showed that people who cycle regularly will be nourished from heart disease in old age.
3. Reducing the risk of cancer
If you maintain a healthy diet and cycle regularly, it will help you reduce your risk of cancer. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that people who have a fit body, even in old age, are at lower risk for lung cancer and colorectal cancer. Other studies also show that cycling regularly can reduce the risk of colon and breast cancer.
4. Reducing the risk of diabetes
Lack of physical activity is one of the causes of diabetes. Cycling is one way you can do to reduce the risk of diabetes. A study in Finland showed that people who cycled more than 30 minutes per day had a lower risk of developing diabetes.
5. Increases the body's strength, balance and muscle coordination
Cycling can prevent you from experiencing a broken bone due to a fall. Although cycling does not specifically help osteoporosis, however, cycling is an ideal form of exercise for people with osteoporosis, because cycling is a light exercise that will only put a little pressure on the joints.
A study also found that after cycling, the condition of elderly patients with knee pain and osteoarthritis was getting better.
6. Reducing stress
Doing physical activity, including cycling, will make your body produce the hormone dopamine, which can increase your feeling of happiness so you can reduce stress, or even depression that you experience.
