Also, one more way to save money by riding a bike is non paying for a gym. Therefore, if you want to save some money, ride a bike instead of driving a car and going to a fuggy gym. On that way, you will be healthy, handsome and you will have much more money.<\/p>\n
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3. Riding bikes maintain health!<\/h2>\n
You already have heard that riding a bike maintains health. It’s true. Benefits of riding bikes for physical health are many, and these are:<\/p>\n
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- Physical activity accelerates the metabolism, limits the amount of water that is absorbed back into your body and stimulates the contraction of the intestinal muscles. All these improve the functioning of the digestive system.<\/li>\n
- Adults use 10 times more oxygen by biking than seating in front of the TV. That allows better functioning of the heart and lungs with faster use oxygen when needed. Actually, that makes a cardiovascular system stronger, which means that you will be able to drive bikes more and more with less effort.<\/li>\n
- Also, according to Hindustantimes,<\/a> <\/span>studies at the Purdue University in the United States show that riding a bike reduces the risk of heart disease by 50%.<\/li>\n
- One more of the many benefits of riding bikes is prevention of carcinoma because cycling is particularly good for keeping cells in good condition. According to Mesothelioma,<\/a><\/span> one long-term study, conducted in Sweden, found a 34% decrease in risk of cancer in people who biked just a half an hour every day. <\/li>\n
- Biking keeps your wrists. As you rotate the pedals, the body is in a sitting position, so there is no load on the joints, knees and spine indifference from running or intense aerobic exercises, Also, that makes the injuries less possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
4. You can overcome disease by riding bikes.<\/h2>\n
Not only that we can maintain health by riding bikes, we can to overcome a disease as well. In fact, cycling makes the immune cells more active to fight the infection. Because of that, all of you who think it’s too late to worry about your health should start biking to make sure that it’s never late.
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<\/p>\n5. Riding bikes increase life expectancy.<\/h2>\n
One more of the many benefits of riding bikes is the prolongation of the life expectancy. That shouldn’t be surprised to us, according to all of the previously mentioned benefits of riding bikes those are related to physical health. According to Mentalfloss<\/a>, <\/span>one study, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health<\/em>, collected data from 50,000 Dutch bicyclists and found that every additional hour of biking correlated to approximately one hour added to a person\u2019s life expectancy. <\/p>\n
6. Biking burns calories and fat and shapes the body.<\/h2>\n
It is common knowledge that we burn calories and fats better during cycling. However, metabolism isn’t accelerated only during cycling, but also within hours after it. Also, cycling creates muscles. By rotating the pedals, muscles of the lower leg, thighs, buttocks, and the muscles that help the body be in the right position, as the abdominal and muscles of the lower part of the body are active. At the same time, hand triceps are also active, especially if you are driving uphill.<\/p>\n
This is a particularly important benefit of cycling in this modern age when there are so many obese parents and children. Also, not only that many people are obese now, but also there are many who develop improperly due to too long sitting, for example, at the computer or a TV. And, in addition, people have never been exposed to so many unhealthy but irresistible meals in the past as now. Many people find it difficult to resist caloric delicacies. However, if you regularly biking, you can treat your child and yourself with calorie delicacies periodically without worrying about whether it will affect your physical appearance and health.<\/p>\n
7. Ride a bike to sleep better!<\/h2>\n
If you have problems with insomnia, cycling may be a solution for you. Namely, Stanford University has conducted a study in which people who suffer from insomnia ride bays 20-30 minutes every day. The result? The time it takes for an insomniac to fall asleep is reduced by half and sleep time is extended for almost an hour. These data are explained by the fact that our body releases cortisol, a hormone which decreases stress, by riding a bicycle in daylight. Considering how stress affects the rhythm of our sleep, it’s clear that after cycling we will fall asleep without stressful thoughts.
<\/p>\n8. Riding bikes defeat fatigue!<\/h2>\n
Cycling allows us to sleep easily and deeper, but that doesn’t mean that riding bikes makes us tired. On the contrary, many studies have found that physical activity, even from just a few minutes, directly affects the reduction of fatigue.<\/p>\n
Because of riding bikes is physical activity, overcoming fatigue is another benefit of it. Therefore, if you are tired and voluntary, however unusual and difficult it may be, sit on a bike and you will forget on fatigue. Biking will increase your energy levels by 20% and reduce fatigue by as much as 65%. This is because cycling encourages the brain to excrete dopamine, the hormone that gives us energy.<\/p>\n
9. Become better in other sports by riding bikes!<\/h2>\n
Of course, because biking strengthens muscles, joints and bones and encourages sports spirit, also we become better in all sports by riding bikes. That’s why bike riding is very useful for the ability to adapt to sports games and be good at them. This is especially important for children because being good at sports activities increases their confidence. <\/p>\n
10. Encouraging creativity is one of the many benefits of riding bikes.<\/h2>\n
Riding bikes is an aerobic exercise. This type of exercise improves the flow of oxygen to the brain when it’s most needed. At the same time, that stimulates the functioning of neurons. Studies have shown that it is enough for children to drive bikes only 25 minutes a day for encouraging their creativity. Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised that many artists use this physical activity to get inspiration for creativity. Among them are Russell Ira Crowe, British composer Sir Edward Elgar, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, famous actor Brad Pitt, and many others.<\/p>\n
As Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes said: <\/strong>\u201cWhen the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n
\n\n\n\n\n11. Biking improves brain functioning.<\/span><\/h2>\n
Not only that riding bikes improve creativity, but also cognition. Specifically, biking increases the flow of blood with oxygen and nutrients to the brain. In that way, receptors regenerate. Also, that stimulates the creation of new brain <\/span>cells in the hippocampus, part of the brain responsible for memory. Therefore, improving memory and preventing the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease belong to the benefits of riding bikes too. Also, according to Citylab.com<\/a>,<\/span> actually a Danish study, kids who cycled to school perform tasks which demand concentration much better than kids who come to school by car or publish transport, and that effects lasted for up to four hours after they got to school. Because of that, experts recommend riding bikes especially for kids with ADHD characteristics <\/a><\/span>and kids with some other cognition impairments.<\/div>\nTherefore, if your child has some learning problems, don’t worry. He\/she just should turn pedals every day.<\/span> Of course, join him\/her to improve your attention and memories as well.![\"improving](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI5NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iNTI5Ij48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\")
<\/div>\n12. Save the planet by riding bikes!<\/h2>\n
We all know that people increase air and noise pollution by driving cars, trucks and many other vehicles. But many of us still aren’t aware of the consequences of that. We must change that as soon as possible because the pollution of our planet affects very bad our health. It causes coughing, heart disease, abnormality in newborn children, cancers,… According to Ourworldindata.org<\/a>,<\/span> outdoor air pollution caused 4.2 million deaths in 2016. This represents an increase from 3.4 million in 1990. <\/p>\n
One writer, Peter Walker know that cycling can be a solution and that represents in his book “How Cycling Can Save the World”. Inter alia, he wrote about a 2015 study from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy which found that if 14% of travel in the world\u2019s cities was done by bike, carbon emission would drop 11% by 2050.<\/p>\n
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- One more of the many benefits of riding bikes is prevention of carcinoma because cycling is particularly good for keeping cells in good condition. According to Mesothelioma,<\/a><\/span> one long-term study, conducted in Sweden, found a 34% decrease in risk of cancer in people who biked just a half an hour every day. <\/li>\n
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