Exercise Bikes Routines

An exercise bike is a convenient, efficient and useful way to exercise indoors, even at home. Before starting your workouts, make sure that the exercise bike you purchase is the one suitable for you. When starting a fitness regime using exercise bikes, develop an exercise bike routine for you to follow and stick to it. When creating the exercise bike routine, develop one which is suitable for your temperament, fitness, schedule and lifestyle. To achieve a successful routine, experiment in different ways and find out what is most appropriate for you. Then select this routine for you to follow. In the beginning, continue this exercise bike routine persistently until it becomes a habit. Initially, you will have to make real effort, but later, you will be able to follow your regime automatically.

Developing exercise bike routine

Normally, a single hour workout enables you to burn above 1000 calories. It is important to note that to burn fat, it is necessary to follow your exercise bike routine regularly. There is no need to raise the intensity of each workout. Your routine after warm up can be 20-30 minute workout with your heart rate monitored around 65percent of the maximum level of heart rate. Then cool down for about 10 minutes. Exercise bikes give you a good cardiovascular workout, along with exercising your lungs and legs. For some exercise bikes there is the facility to exercise your arms as well. Exercise bikes allow you to exercise without causing stress or impact to the joints, thereby decreasing the chance of being injured.

Different exercise bike routines

There are different kinds of exercise bike routines for you to choose from. From the chart showing heart rate, estimate the bpm for 65 percent. It is a good target, exercising for half an hour at 65percent of the maximum level of heart rate, to burn 300 calories. If you choose 50percent of the maximum level of heart rate, then you must workout for about 45 minutes. An intermediate workout involves interval training. This series can include intense efforts followed by recovery period and then repeating this cycle. An advanced interval workout is done by the rise of interval duration, followed by the recovery time.

After a while, your exercise bike routine can become boring. So after you have cultivated the habit of exercising, you can vary the routine at suitable intervals. For instance, do two x half an hour of easier workout sessions or else after a warm up of 10 minutes, workout five times, for two minutes each and then conclude with a cooling time of 10 minute. Another variation is to workout easily for 10 minutes, followed by a tough workout session for 10 minutes and winding down by an easy workout for another 10 minutes. To decrease the monotony, you can do your exercise bike routine while watching television or hearing music or even while reading a magazine, meditating or knitting. If at a gym, try alternate machines. You can attempt whatever you find motivating. Along with your exercising develop a healthy, balanced diet and follow it regularly.