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Bicycle: oxygenates the mind and strengthens the heart

It's well known that aerobic exercises, such as bicycling, are activities that provide the heart with the greatest benefits.

 

Aerobic exercises, such as bicycling, offer benefits everyone wants: maintain the ideal weight, fortify the heart and benefit the lungs. You keep yourself fit, on a good mood and with good heath practicing aerobic exercises.

What makes aerobic exercises so beneficial?

Opposite to strength exercise (which fortifies muscles and bones), aerobic exercises, like bicycling, walking, swimming, jogging and skiing, have a significant impact in the heart. People forget that this is a muscle, and as any other, it expands, grows stronger and more efficient with exercise.

 

Also:

After 10 weeks of training, three times per week, the heart muscle grows, and thus, pumps more oxygenated blood with each heart beat.

Torso, arms and leg muscles that have been worked out, are more efficient extracting the necessary oxygen out of the blood stream.

Together, these changes increase the strength capability.

Also, the circulation is optimized, in part due to the blood vessels improvement, which carry oxygen to the skin and remove the remainders.

Aerobic exercise reduces the risk factors for heart diseases: it lowers the blood pressure, increments the good cholesterol or high-density lipoprotein HDL, keeping the veins from becoming coagulated, which are one of the most common cause for heart attacks.

Finally, as the aerobic exercise burns out the body fat and increases the metabolism, it's one of the best weapons against obesity.

Physical activity also benefits the rest of the body. Walking one or two kilometers per day increases the bone density and decreases the risks of osteoporosis.

Helping regulate the sugar metabolism, it can stop the diabetes type II, or the non-insulin dependent, which is the most common kind of diabetes.

Aerobic exercises increase the immune system, improving the cells circulation, which makes the body more capable of fighting back bacteria or viruses.

Aerobic exercise also reduces the risk of breast and colon cancer. Physical activity increases the rate on which the body eliminates remainders from the intestinal tract.

Harder to quantify, but maybe the most important, is the impact that aerobic exercise has in the life quality. It's simple: the ones who practice it tend to feel and look much younger than they really are. Part of it is that sedentary people lose 9% of their cardiovascular quality every 10 years after they past 25 years. In active adults this decrease can be less than 5% per every 10 years.

In order to benefit from physical activity, it is recommended that sedentary people do at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity three to five days per week. If you don't have much time, the 30 minutes don't need to be in consecutive days.

 

Localized benefits:

Respiratory system: Improves and restores the respiratory capability, as it is an extended and continuous effort.

Articular system: Improves the synovial fluid lubrication found in the joints and prevents the arthrosis formation.

Muscular system: Increases the amount of muscular fibers which takes part in the muscular contraction. You then acquire a fibrous musculature.

Nervous system: The blood and oxygen contribution increases towards that area.

Fatty tissue: Being an extended effort, the body tends to use the fat reserved in specific areas of the body and it absorbs it in a way that you can lose fat centimeters in several parts of your body.

Bone system: Improves the calcium deposit process by stimulating the metabolism in general. Improves the bone hardness due to the stimulation produced by the muscular traction.

Skin: Promotes the renewal of dead skin cells, which helps exfoliation of old tissue.

Cellular metabolism: Improves the elimination of remainder substances (mainly toxins).

Calves: Greatly increases the muscular pump and facilitates the vein circulation from the lower part of the body

 

 

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