Riding a bicycle can be a fun and easy way to exercise and keep fit.
Many people remember the fun they had riding bicycles as children.
If you decide to try riding a bicycle for fitness, you should learn how to do a technique called spinning. When a person begins to bicycle, he or she tends to place the gearing on the bike at a level difficult enough to push on the pedals at a rate of 40 to 60 revolutions per minute. The revolutions per minute refers to the times one foot makes a complete circle with the pedal. This rate is very inefficient for the human body and is also hard on the knees as the muscles and ligaments around them are working too intensely. Spinning is a technique where the rider of the bicycle uses a relatively low gear and spins on the pedals at a rate of 85 to 95 revolutions per minute.