Exercise bikes. It’s hard to imagine a gym without them! There’s a reason exercise bikes are so common in gyms and other fitness facilities. Besides being incredibly popular, stationary bikes provide an excellent cardio workout to strengthen your heart, lungs, and muscles, while increasing the flow of blood and oxygen through your entire body.
Do Exercise Bikes Actually Do Anything?
We’ve previously talked about the many physical benefits of exercising for cardio fitness but perhaps more importantly, cardio workouts can also deliver many mental health and wellbeing benefits.
As well as improving sleep and boosting your mood, a session on a stationary bike can provide a much-needed escape from stress or anxiety, both of which are increasingly challenging to manage while we continue to live through a global pandemic.
The biggest advantage of stationery exercise bikes is that they can be used every day
No more excuses about the weather or traffic – home exercise bikes help you stay committed to your fitness goals by always being available.
Exercise bikes are also incredibly versatile, so you can easily adapt your daily workout to your changing needs. Feeling unmotivated with low energy levels? Then a gentle cycle at a slow speed while reading a favourite book could be the perfect antidote. Feeling restless and jumpy? A high energy sprint might be in order.
As well as providing a short-term solution to your immediate needs, exercise bikes also adapt beautifully to help you meet your longer-term exercise and fitness goals.
Exercising for weight loss? Even cycling at a moderate speed will help you burn calories, but turning up the intensity will help you achieve a greater caloric deficit when combined with a healthy and nutritious diet.
At the beginning of your weight loss journey, a steady-state ride will help build up your cardiovascular endurance as your body adapts to regular exercise. As you gradually become fitter and the weight starts to come off, switching to a hill-climb mode will have you burning more fat as the intensity increases and you are forced to pedal harder. As you get closer to your weight loss goal, speed intervals are an effective way of challenging your body and maintaining consistent calorie burn.
If your goal is to improve your cardio fitness, moderate intensity sessions on a stationary bike are ideal to get you working within the recommended cardio zone of 50% to 70% of your maximum heart rate.
Recovering from an injury? Setting a slow and gentle cycling pace will help you ease back into exercise while accommodating your injury.
At BeFit Hire we have a huge range of bikes available, including upright bikes, spin bikes, recumbent bikes, heavy-duty programmable bikes, and manual exercise bikes.
Our expert BeFit Hire agents can help you choose the right type of exercise bike to achieve your fitness goals. The BeFit Hire range also includes treadmills, rowing machines, and manual and programmable cross-trainers
With more than 50 years as a family business, customer service is our focus and we invite you to get in touch to discuss your needs. Our equipment is available for purchase or hire and we have flexible payment options available.
Free delivery to most of metro Adelaide and Melbourne is available for most hire periods. Your safety and health is important to us, and your BeFit agent will test, clean and disinfect your hire equipment before delivery. Contactless delivery is available on request if you are in voluntary or medically directed self-isolation.
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