Cycling is a fun activity and can be an effective way to burn calories. If you cycle intensely enough, you can burn as many calories as you can running. It is an appropriate alternative for individuals who have to avoid weight bearing activities and are looking to lose weight. You can determine how many calories you burn while cycling by following the same process as when you determine calories burned for any other activity. Once you learn do it, you can apply it to any activity.
Instructions
Counting Calories
1. Weigh yourself in the morning before you have eaten anything. Weigh yourself three times in a row to ensure the scale is giving you a consistent number.
2. Find a website that will enable you to calculate your calories burned biking. There are dozens of such sites available on the internet. Fitwatch (see references) and Healthstatus.com (see resources) are good ones.
3. Enter your weight, choose the intensity you use when biking, and for how long you will be biking. If you have followed the instructions of the calorie counting site, it will give you an approximate number of calories burned.
4. Keep in mind that the lower your body fat is and the more muscle you have on your body, the more calories you will burn. If you have lots of body fat and little muscle, you will not burn as much. In other words, the number the website will show you is just the national average.
5. Use this approach to find out calories burned for any activity.
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