Fitness Tips For Mountain Bikers About us My name is Richard Sprawson general manager of the company My Winning Way. Our product reviews are designed to give you information so that you can make an informed decision when you buy. We do not take our reputation for honesty and integrity for granted and will never recommend any product that is sub standard in terms of quality or design. To this end we always either test the products ourselves or get information about products from sources that we trust implicitly. We hope that you enjoy this review and find it helpful. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@mywinningway.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
Riding a mountain bike can be an extremely good work out for the body. People may not realize how many muscles they use when riding a mountain bike, and how quickly they can burn off calories. Riding cross-country along different styles of trails can be very exhausting on the legs and the lower back. If you are just starting to ride bikes for the first time, it’s not a good idea to go for a 20 mile ride as it may do you more harm than good. Do short rides to start with, maybe only a couple of miles which will take no time at all on a bike to get your fitness training up to scratch before hitting the trail. Your legs will be the first part of your body that will get tired very quickly. Building up your leg muscles on the bike will help improve your personal and bike fitness quickly. As you improve you will be able to go on longer and better rides than will enhance your fitness. Ride your bike exercises some of largest muscles in the body which will burn off fat quickly.The more you ride you bike the more weight you will lose. When you ride your bike on flat ground at a slower speed you are still burning a great amount of calories due to the fact that you will be able to continue that pedaling motion for a longer period of time. Low intensity work outs also don’t give you all the extra muscle either so the weight will stay off. The recreational side of the sport is far more popular than the racing side and mountain biking can be performed almost anywhere from a back yard to a gravel road.The majority of mountain bikers ride off-road trails, whether country back roads, fire roads, or single track (narrow trails that wind through forests, mountains, deserts, or fields). There is a strong ethic of self-reliance in the sport because riders are often far from civilization Riders learn to repair their broken bikes or flat tires to avoid being stranded miles from help. Many riders will carry a backpack, including a water bottle, containing all the essential tools and equipment for trail side repairs, and riders should also carry emergency supplies in the case of injury miles from outside help.
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Club rides and other forms of group rides are common, especially on longer treks. Injury are inherent in the sport ranging from relatively minor wounds, such as cuts and abrasions from falls on gravel to serious injuries such as striking the head or spine on a boulder or tree. Protective equipment can protect against minor injuries, and reduce the extent or seriousness of major impacts, but it cannot protect a rider against the most serious accidents. A rider needs to take steps to make injuries less likely, such as picking trails that they can handle given their experience level, ensuring that they are fit enough to deal with the trail they have chosen, and keeping their bike in top mechanical shape. Mountain biking places much higher demands on every part of the bike so that maintenance of one’s bike needs to be done more frequently for mountain biking than for casual commuter biking in the city. Even if you don’t ride cross-country and are just as happy down the local skate park you are still having fun on your bike and at the end of the day that’s all that matters.
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