Cycling Season A Summer Challenge

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With the summer season just ahead of us, it is now time to start thinking about the summer challenges you may want to tackle.

The summer season is usually a popular time for people to set themselves a challenge that they want to achieve before the dark nights draw in. For some, it may be a fitness challenge in time for a summer holiday, for others it may be more of a mental type task – whatever it is, it is now time to start considering your options.

The Cycling Challenge

• As more people begin to book their summer holidays, more people are signing themselves up to a 12-month contract at their local gym – only to realize after a few visits they are not going to go back.

• Rather than getting yourself into an expensive contract, why not choose to plan your own exercise? Cycling is a great form of exercise and you can do it pretty much wherever and whenever you want, so why would you want to be tied into a gym contract?

What you have to do…

• The cycling challenge is up to you, you should make your own rules. Rather than heading towards the car keys in the morning, why don’t you instead pick up your helmet and have a ride to work?

• Set yourself a challenge of how many times you want to cycle per week and stick to it, and this will be your cycling challenge for the summer season.

• If you do not want to set a limit to how many times you are going to cycle each week, there are other ways of going about it –

• Limit the number of times you are going to use the car – if you only want to use your car 5 times a week, you shall have to plan when you are going to cycle.

• Set yourself the challenge of a mile, name the number of miles you want to cycle by the end of the summer, each time you ride, make a note of how many miles you have completed so far.

Benefits of Cycling

• There are many benefits of cycling; these benefits should be encouraging reasons for you to pick up your helmet instead of your car keys in the morning…                                                     
• Fitness, fitness, fitness, cycling is great for you! On average you can burn 300 calories for 30 minutes cycling – meaning it is one of the fastest calorie-burning exercises.                              
• It will make you feel better, trust me. Cycling will give you the chance to clear your mind, reducing your stress levels.                 
• Cycling will save you money, you will not have to splash out on car maintenance and fuel costs as often.                                  
• By cycling, you are also doing a world of good for the environment.