Recently to become more and more popular driving the bicycle. And it is difficult to define, for what purpose more and more people take the wheel of the bicycle: to lose weight or to stop participating in daily traffic jams.
Anyway, and our task to understand, than is useful driving the bicycle and whether there are some contraindications.
Ecology
Without offenses, but let's think globally. Whether driving the bicycle is useful to our planet? And whether driving the car is useful to our planet? To answer the first question we will give several facts:
- to park the bicycle 20 times less place, than is necessary for 1 car (that is instead of 1 parked car we receive 20 bicycles);
- only 5% of amount of the materials necessary for production of 1 car are the share of production of 1 bicycle;
- bicycles in difference from cars do not need gasoline;
- bicycles do not promote heating of the atmosphere as it is successfully done by cars;
- if you take the wheel of the bicycle, you automatically unload roads from traffic jams;
- to the resident of the megalopolis, to reach the right place it is necessary to spend 30 min. for traffic jams, at the same time the average speed of the car will be 11.5 km/h, and the average speed of the bicycle – 20-25 km/h.
It so, in general, that is promoted by driving the bicycle in world scales. And now about darlings.
Weight loss
If you ride every day a bicycle of 20 minutes, in a week you will burn 2000 kcal that is equal to about 200 g of fat. But there is a question: what it is more favorable in terms of weight loss – run or driving the bicycle? The answer depends on your weight.
In case your weight, to put it mildly, is higher than norm – about 100 kg, at jogs 2/3 your weights lay down excessive cargo on each leg, at each step. Destructive processes of joints and a backbone result. When driving the bicycle how many you weighed, your weight (most part) is the share of a seat, so joints in safety. Jogs – it is very useful, but at first it is necessary to get rid of the lion's share of excess weight in other way.
But consider, fast driving the bicycle if you the beginner or have obesity, can give too big load of heart.
Varicosity
The bicycle is the best prevention from varicosity and vegeto-vascular diseases. When pressing pedals, blood circulation in veins amplifies several times, so, any developments of stagnation will remain in the past.
Driving the bicycle is useful to a press, but it is even more useful to hips. If you want to lose weight in hips by means of the bicycle, your bicycle trainings have to last not less than 45 minutes.
Advantage for intimate life
Besides that driving the bicycle trains our hips, legs, a press, a back and other, also muscles of a small pelvis train and also vessels extend. For men the last has especially important character as exercises for a small pelvis serve as prevention of adenoma of a prostate.
The Harvard uchena proved that they thanks to driving the man's bicycle after 50, risk to become impotent men 30% less, than all other representatives of a strong half of mankind. And women face a menopause for 2-5 years later.
Danger!
However not everything is so hospitable. The long researches conducted on cyclists showed that constant driving the bicycle brings to a zazhatiya of nerves and blood vessels of women in genitals. And it reduces their sensitivity and results in numbness. But also to it found a solution. For women special "ladies'" bicycles which have other form of sitting, without "nose" will be absolutely harmless, and the wheel is located below the saddle.
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