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7 Tips in Finding the Best Heavy Duty Exercise Bikes For You

Are you looking for some tips to find the best heavy duty exercise bikes? If so, you are reading the right article.

In this article, we are going to give you 7 tips that will help you choose the right heavy duty exercise bike for exciting exercise sessions.

1. Check the Size

Size is of great importance when it comes to choosing your exercise bike. This is mainly because you have to…

Linking the Risk of Falls & Cycling in Older Adults

People who keep cycling into their later years are at lower risk of the kinds of falls that plague older folk.

A third of over-65s take a tumble each year, and about a quarter of those who break their hip this way die within a year.

Injuries aside, the fear of a repeat fall can limit mobility.

Chris Rissel at the University of Sydney and his colleagues wondered whether cycling would help…

Developed in the 1970s in Israel (Bar-Or, Dotan & Inbar, 1977), the Wingate Anaerobic Test (WAnT), also known as the Wingate Test and Wingate Protocol, measures (Bar-Or, 1987; Cooper et al., 2004):

Lower-body peak power;

Anaerobic capacity; and

The reduction of power, known as fatigue index (FD).

The WAnT, usually on a cycle ergometer, is conducted as follows:

It is a 30-second all-out exhaustive…