Health Benefits of Bike Riding

A bike ride offers many health benefits. Going for a ride is good for your heart and muscles, and it may improve how you walk, balance, and climb stairs.

• A bike ride offers many health benefits - going for a ride is good for your heart and muscles, and it may improve how you walk, balance, and climb stairs.
• Easy on your joints - unlike walking, when riding a bike the weight is distributed on your pelvic skeleton. This is particularly useful for those with joint pains from arthritis. It is actually easy on your joints and it strengthens your muscles.
• Great aerobic work out - riding a bike is great for your heart, brain, and blood vessels. It also triggers the release of endorphins, the body's feel-good chemicals—which makes you feel good!!
• Builds muscles and improves strength - riding a bike uses large muscles of your thigh that contributes to lower body strength and balance.
• Running daily errands - riding your bicycle to run daily errands—going to the corner grocery store, bank, or post office—makes every day chores into fat burning exercise without cutting into your busy life. Ride that bike to the mosque for your Fajr or evening Prayer.
• Pedaling builds bone - resistance activities—such as pushing pedals—pull on the muscles, and then the muscles pull on the bone, which increases bone density that prevents a common and disabling condition of the elderly.

Source: Harvard Medical School