Global Sports: Types of Exercise Bike Workouts

Friday, March 9, 2012

Types of Exercise Bike Workouts

By Steven J. Bancroft


It is not surprising that exercise bikes are growing in popularity. They offer several excellent workout benefits in your home. Those benefits are as follows:

Quiet fitness equipment

Low impact workout

Exercise bikes don't cost as much as treadmills and elliptical trainers

Provides a great lower body workout

Perfect for indoor cycling training.

Similar to treadmill and elliptical workouts, exercise bikes offer a variety of workouts as well.

Different types of exercise bike workouts:

1. HIIT Workouts

HIIT stands for high intensity interval training. An HIIT type of workout is going full out for a short period (20 to 120 seconds or longer) interrupted by brief periods of much less intensity. It's a varied workout and great for building up endurance, strength and burning fat.

2. Fat-burning workouts

The commonly-understood position about fat burning workouts is to maintain a steady intensity that is 65% of your heart rate. This is easily managed with an exercise bike that has a heart rate monitor (grip or wireless heart rate monitors).

3. Peak-performance training

Many stationary bikes come outfitted with computers which makes it easy to program a peak-performance type of workout designed to improve your cycling endurance and speed. Often these workouts include a log of hill training (replicated by increasing the resistance).

4. Manual stationary bike workouts

If you like to manage your own exercise bike workouts, you can do so with a manual setting where you can increase or decrease the resistance and your speed as you see fit.

5. Workouts for burning calories

If you want to burn the maximum amount of calories, you can program a calorie burn workout which is generally fairly high-intensity including plenty of hill training (if you're at that level).

Regardless of your fitness level and workout objectives, you can choose a workout program or style on exercise bikes that meet your level and goals.




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