What is the ultimate cardio training?
Cycling or running?
I personally find cycling much more entertaining but idk what are your opinions anons, or which one is better for your overall health and resistance.
Best cardio: Cycling or running?
What is the ultimate cardio training?
Cycling or running?
I personally find cycling much more entertaining but idk what are your opinions anons, or which one is better for your overall health and resistance.
Running because it's higher impact and works your muscles in more natural proportions. Cycling semi-isolates quads over hamstrings, glutes, and calves.
Running has the edge. You'll burn more calories, build a skill that can be used anytime anywhere, and is basically free(shoes optional). Cycling is pretty good though,is fun, more range, can cycle commute and also has a low cost of entry.
More calories per hour with running maybe. But it's impossible to get close to the number of cycling hours with running. You can cycle 2 hours per day with no tweaks or tendon issues. Running especially as a noob will max out at like 3hrs per week. So total calories for an avid amateur of cycling will have higher calories and cario benefit. Though the running impact is good. Why not do both.
If you're doing it per hour then yes you will burn more with running but with that logic you'll burn even more with swimming.
But I've gone out on bike rides that have lasted multiple hours. I'm never going to do that with running because it sucks.
>cycling or running?
swimming
running can frick up your joints, especially if you're overweight, run on hard ground, don't have running shoes or have some fricked up knee genetics
cycling is fun but all bike drivers are homosexuals that i would run over if it wasn't for law consequences
Running trains your joints, you can overdo it but that is optional.
>Is A or B better?
>C is better than both of them!
Why are you gay?
I do both and running is what gave me the most cardio gains. Also if you ever do cycling outside of stationary bikes some cyclists are fricking insufferable. Their whole hobby is buying two thousand dollar bikes and jerking off about it on forums
Swimming>cycling>running in overall terms of effectiveness/fun, it's best to do all 3 though.
Swimming is the best since you use all of your muscles, it aids recovery the day after lifting and is fun with underwater headphones.
Cycling is fun as you get to go fast and you can get great leg gains by doing HIIT cycling/uphill sprints. It's very weather dependent though, unless you're OK with wearing tight spandex and a plastic helmet (which is pretty gay).
Running is fine as long as you're OK with having broken knees by 40.
I personally do cardio 2-3 times a week, cycling on sunny days and swimming in the rainy days, I don't run because I simply hate it. Swimming and cycling helped me get to 13% this pre-summer cut.
>Running = broken knees
way to out yourself as a moron/unathletic subhuman
>t. landlubbers
>I'm unathletic
Imagine not doing the best cardio exercise because it's not fun. Kek. Weak.
Man I agree helmets are the gayest shit ever but sometimes going 30mph downhill I'm afraid I'm gonna fall and end up crippled lol
You have to really push yourself on a bike. If your just cruising along at 12mph yeah it's not a great workout. I highly recommend getting a power meter and doing intervals, see how many watts you can hold for 30 seconds, 1 minutes, 5 minutes, 20 minutes ect. You officially make it out of dyer(do you even ride) if you can manage 300 watts for 20 minutes
How do those watt things work?
I live in a pretty mountainous area with steep slopes and stuff, so I ride around 45 minutes to an hour depending the day.
I don't know how much does that produce but I keep a pretty good speed for most of the path and I'm usually not that tired after it.
It's a sensor that measures how much torque is going through the cranks or pedals. It is much better for tracking gains on a bike than speed, because how fast you are going is determined by many different factors and hard to match day by day. If you are a casual rider and decently fit you could probably average 200-250 in a 20 minutes effort. For comparison, Jonas Vingegaard averaged an estimated 440-450 watts for 30 minutes in the time trial the other day in the tour.(considered one of the best cycling performance ever, won by over 1'30")
I've heard Lance Armstrong claim he could average 500 watts for 20 minutes when he was in his prime blasting EPO
Cycling
But you still have to run at least once a week. Preferably two or three times a week.
Because of the way running is high impact it means that you actually get less of a cardiovascular effect than something like cycling or swimming.
But it's an absolute full body activity that leads to significant physical changes in your body. Because of the unique way it transfers force and stress to your entire body you end up with a much harder body.
I used to have man boobs that slowly turned into a more muscular chest. But even when it was mostly muscle they were still kind of floppy and moved around. After a few weeks of running they had hardened up into a solid lump of mass that did not wobble around every time I jumped or moved too quickly.
Running is absolutely not the best form of cardio, swimming and cycling are both superior. Swimming because it allows your entire body to do the cardio. Cycling because it's the purest aerobic effort you can do.
Birthday significant research being done to the aerobic effects of riding e-bikes with pedal assist, and the two research papers I've gone through on it have both come to the same conclusion that writing and e-bike gives the same amount of aerobic exercise as a regular bicycle over the same amount of time.
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