Feel the Power of Cycling-Mental Health

Cycling reduces the risk of heart disease up to 40%

Cycling is a form of physical activity that effectively taxes the cardio respiratory and metabolic functions of the whole body in a wide range of intensities and thus lends itself to many potential health benefits.

However, as commuting cycling is normally of higher physiological intensity than walking. It is therefore no surprise that cycling has been recognized as an important potential means to promote public health

“Cycling’s low impact, so you keep going longer,” says Matt Parker. Cycling is low-impact exercise that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Regular cycling has many physical and mental health benefits

Cycling intensity can be made more demanding by increasing the pedaling resistance. Cycling and recumbent cycling are two very popular non-weight-bearing exercise modes, whereas walking and jogging are popular exercises in the weight-bearing category. Cycling and recumbent cycling there is much less trauma to the muscles and joints, heart rates are generally lower, and thus longer exercise bouts are possible.

Cardiovascular disease and cycling

Cardiovascular diseases include stroke, high blood pressure and heart attack. Regular cycling stimulates and improves your heart, lungs and circulation, reducing your risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Cycling strengthens your heart muscles, lowers resting pulse and reduces blood fat levels. Research also shows that people who cycle to work have two to three times less exposure to pollution than car commuters, so their lung function is improved. A Danish study conducted over 14 years with 30,000 people aged 20 to 93 years found that regular cycling protected people from heart disease.

Cycling also protects against CVD risk. Cycling up to or >3.5 h/week reduces the CVD risk by about 20%. But >3.5 h/ week of combined cycling and sport reduces the risk by almost 40%

The impact of cycling on physical health

• It strengthens the immune system and thus contributes to a healthy life
• The leg muscles are responsible for the pedaling movement; the abdomen and back muscles stabilize the body on the cycle and the shoulder-arm muscular system supports the body at the handlebars. All this are trains and tightens up the muscular system, making it stronger and able to function efficiently.
• Cyclic movement of the legs stimulates muscles in the lower back. In this way the spine is strengthened and secured against external stresses. In particular cycling can stimulate the small muscles of the vertebrae which are difficult to affect through other exercise.
• The circular movement of cycling assists the transport of energy and other metabolic produces to the cartilages, reducing the likelihood of
• Moderate cycling can prevent, or at least reduce high blood pressure and so help to avoid stroke or damage to the organs.
• Improved stamina reduces tiredness and fatigue and promotes a sense of well-being..

The impact of cycling on mental health

• Cycling reduces your levels of the ‘stress hormone’ cortisol, which is associated with anxiety and a racing pulse. It also increases your levels of endorphins – your body’s natural ‘feel good chemicals’ such as serotonin.
• Mainly reduce the stress & depression, by reducing the anxiety levels.

Listen music while you walk

It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and life to everything… Without music, life would be an error – Plato.

Music is used more and more as a therapeutic tool. Various studies provide evidence that listening to classical music does indeed have healthful effects. Music is used to regulate mood and arousal in everyday life and to promote physical and psychological health and well-being in clinical settings. Music is effective under different conditions and can be utilized as an effective intervention in patients with cardiovascular disturbances, pain, depressive syndromes, psychiatric diseases, and in intensive care medicine.

Positive effect

“Music can have positive effect on enjoyment of and motivation for performing physical exercise, especially for recreational exercisers who work out at intensity for health purposes” (Wijnalda, Pauws, Vignoli, & Stuckenschmidt, 2005)

It ups your effort

Exercise has a positive effect on body satisfaction and listening to music while exercising has been found to increase an individual’s intensity and performance, especially if that individual is listening to high beat per minute music. Music also increases endurance by keeping people awash in strong emotions. Listening to music is often an incredibly pleasurable experience.

A good beat can help you keep pace

Music, it seems, can function as a metronome, helping someone maintain a steady pace, reducing false steps and decreasing energy expenditure

Music is the good kind of distraction

while the study did suggest there’s more to it than distraction, such a distraction can benefit athletic performance by up to 15 percent

It makes you want to move Listening to music while exercising has been found in multiple studies to create an increased sense of motivation, distracting the mind while increasing heart rate. Faster tempo music has been found by researchers to motivate exercisers to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but peak performance has been found to be unaffected by listening to music