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7 Best Cycle For Exercise: Best Fitness Bikes In India
Best Cycle For Exercise: The body achieves what the mind believes. In our hectic life schedules, we forget about taking care of ourselves and sometimes gain unnecessary weight. But because of lack of time we aren’t able to maintain our physique and that makes our minds stressful as well. To save time for you, we have made a list of gym cycles for home, so that you can take care of your exercise fitness.
Cycling exercise even for 15 minutes a day can help increase cardiovascular fitness, gain muscle strength and flexibility and also help you burn some calories and reduce excess fat. Keep yourself going with these best exercise bikes in India, and maintain not only your health and fitness but encourage your family and friends too.
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Best Cycle For Exercise: Top Picks
The hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made, so if you push through, you can push through anything. Have a look at the top quality best cycle for exercise and get the slim toned body you have always dreamt of.
1. Reach AB-110 Air Bike Exercise Cycle
Your search for the best fitness bike ends here. This gym cycle comes with a user-friendly tracker and an LCD that allows you to scan modes and track your time, distance, speed, and calories burned as you exercise.
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It is ergonomically designed for a comfortable seating while doing your cycling exercises and has a handle that can both be stationary and moving according to your needs and preferences. Enjoy a good fitness time with the high-density foam, which will prevent you from experiencing stiffness. Exercise Cycle Price: Rs 6,999
2. SPARNOD FITNESS SAB-05 Exercise Cycle for Home
Stay healthy and fit with these fitness bikes from Sparnod. This gym cycle for home comes with a one year warranty and has numerous health benefits like improved memory and brain functioning, lower blood pressure, better sleep, improved blood sugar levels, a stronger immune system, better mood, lower stress levels and more energy throughout the day.
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With its dual action bars you can easily move back and forth to target upper body muscles. Exercise Cycle Price: Rs 6,499
3. Reach AB-110 BST Air Bike Exercise Cycle
Your search for the best exercise bike ends here. This cycle for exercise from Reach is the best of both worlds. It supports a full body workout for up to 100 kgs and its handlebars are made with high-density foam that prevents you from experiencing any stiffness of the back, strains, and muscle aches as you work out.
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These also come with trackers that can easily scan your workout time, distance, speed, and calories burned as you exercise. Exercise Cycle Price: Rs 7,999
4. PowerMax Fitness BU-200 Exercise Upright Bike
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. A high quality gym bike at a budget friendly price is the need of every household. With 320 ball bearings, the rotation while pedaling will be softer and make less noise, and will also give more durability.
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These exercise bikes comes with a magnetic resistance mechanism with 8 levels of difficulty and a tension knob that simulates different terrains and customize routines according to your preferences. Exercise Cycle Price: Rs 4,499
5. Healthex Pedal Exerciser Cycle Bike for Home
Hunting a good exercise cycle, worry no more. The Healthex Pedal gym cycle is very compact and won’t take much space in your homes.
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These are also designed for people who have recently gone through surgeries and have to regain their muscle strengths and have a great low impact exercise for beginners. Easy to fold and unfold, you can easily check workout time, number of rotations completed, estimated burn calories and rotations per minute. Exercise Cycle Price: Rs 1,496
6. OneFitplus by cult.sport OFP-M1
Once you are exercising regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it. This comes with a 14.3 lbs flywheel facilitating a natural cycling momentum, it has a 100-level magnetic resistance system to challenge you for varying intensity workouts.
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These fitness bikes can take up to 120 kgs of user weight and also have anti-slip pedals designed with adjustable straps to make your cycling experience safer. Exercise Cycle Price: Rs 19,500
7. PowerMax Fitness® BX-110SX Stationary Exercise
If you are seeking a good gym bike, this is the perfect choice for you. Do various cycling exercises and burn some calories with these Powermax fitness cycles.
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It has a LCD display that helps you monitor your exercise time, speed, distance, heart rate and calories real-time. You can easily fold and unfold these when not required. Exercise Cycle Price: Rs 13,200
Explore more on the best exercise cycle on Amazon here.
FAQs: Best Cycle For Exercise
1. Which exercise bike is best?
These are some of the best cycle for exercise:
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Peloton. Bike.
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YOSDUA. Indoor Cycling Bike.
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Bowflex. C7.
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Echelon. Smart Connect EX3 Max Bike.
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Sunny Health & Fitness. SF-B1002 Belt Drive Exercise Bike.
2. Is riding a stationary bike 30 minutes a day good exercise?
Depending on your health goals and the intensity of your workout, 30 minutes on a stationary bike can be enough to improve your fitness and lose weight. Adults should aim for a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week to reduce the risk of lifestyle diseases like cardiovascular disease.
Disclaimer: Jagran’s journalists were not involved in the production of this article. The prices mentioned here are subject to change with respect to Amazon.
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Sports Column: Finding the time to exercise in winter is difficult – The Vicksburg Post
Sports Column: Finding the time to exercise in winter is difficult
Published 4:00 am Sunday, January 19, 2025
Like a lot of people, I made a New Year’s resolution to exercise more, lose a little weight, and get into shape.
All right, “resolve” might be a strong word. Let’s call it a desire to get a little more value for my $50 a month gym membership than the once-a-month visits that became the norm in 2024.
For a while I’ve been stuck in the fitness paradox. When starting a regimen your muscles hurt after a workout so you want to rest, but the more you exercise the less they’ll hurt. Give it a couple of weeks and you’ll power through it.
It’s one of the biggest hurdles to getting into shape, and one I was reminded of again this week. I hit the pool for a modest 2,000-yard swimming workout, my first since Christmas, and had to grind hard to finish the last half of it. If I’d been in the water a couple times a week it would not have been nearly as taxing.
Time and work are big obstacles to exercising, of course. Especially this time of year. Getting home at 5 or 6 p.m. as the sun is setting and the temperature is dropping limits the neighborhood walks that are an easy way to burn calories. Covering a basketball game at Vicksburg High once a week and trekking up the hill from the parking lot in the dark isn’t going to cut it.
Another roadblock, for me at least, is other people.
I’m primarily a lap swimmer, so access to an indoor pool is the main reason I joined my gym. Unfortunately, it also means everyone else has access.
Besides other lap swimmers, that pool is used for children’s lessons and water aerobics classes.
When you lap swim you can’t see what’s in front of you — you look down, not ahead — so you’re trusting other people to watch out for you. Young kids trying to stay afloat have bigger concerns than avoiding you, so you need to develop a high level of ESP to avoid smashing into them like a torpedo into the side of a destroyer. It’s stressful.
The water aerobics folks have been nice and friendly when we’ve crossed paths — maybe a little too friendly. They tend to hang out and float for a while after their classes and get chatty. I don’t want to be rude, but also don’t want to swap life stories and recipes when I’m trying to stay on an interval and in rhythm.
The water aerobics folks have also scheduled thrice-weekly evening classes from 6 to 7 p.m., which is primetime for a post-work workout. I have to leave work early and go in the middle of the afternoon, or squeeze in a late swim and hope the gym managers don’t decide to lock up early.
Getting forgotten about and trapped in the pool overnight is a weird but not irrational fear, right?
I know there are more forms of exercise than swimming, and I probably need to explore those and stop making excuses. Hit the exercise bike or treadmill, for crying out loud. Lift a weight heavier than a 12-ounce Coke can.
Or just complain and rant. That burns calories, too.
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Ernest Bowker is the sports editor of The Vicksburg Post. He can be reached at ernest.bowker@vicksburgpost.com
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Exercising regularly is important for preventing dementia. But if it’s hard to rack up the recommended amount of activity during the five-day work week (150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity, like brisk walking, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity, like swimming), consider the “weekend warrior” approach — fitting it all into one or two weekly sessions. The approach might offer the same brain health benefits, according to a study published online Oct. 29, 2024, by the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Researchers analyzed the health and self-reported activity information of more than 10,000 dementia-free people in Mexico who were followed for about 16 years. After accounting for factors that could influence the results, such as lifestyle habits, scientists found that weekend warriors were 13% less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor to dementia, compared with people who didn’t exercise — about the same benefit seen in those who exercised during the work week. While the study was observational and can’t prove cause and effect, it supports the idea that even less frequent exercise might help protect brain health, and it might be a more convenient option for busy people.
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Fitness face-off – Harvard Health
What’s in style? The question doesn’t just relate to fashion. Indeed, even exercise styles go in and out of vogue, echoing trends fueled by social media and other cultural drivers.
Case in point: high-intensity bursts of exercise have grabbed headlines over the past couple of years, with scientists generating an array of studies examining the health benefits of short spurts of movement lasting from one to three minutes. That might consist of jumping jacks, lunges, running in place, jumping rope, air boxing, running up stairs, or any other high-intensity activity.
Meanwhile, plenty of research continues to focus on the health advantages of moderate-intensity, continuous movement. Mainstay choices for these sessions include brisk walking, cycling, jogging, and elliptical and treadmill use.
Given the swings in popularity between the differently paced alternatives, perhaps the most pressing question is which one is better for us. It might seem certain exercise patterns might prove superior to others, but we should resist the temptation to believe that, says Dr. Meagan Wasfy, a sports cardiologist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
“There are always trends, and each one claims to be the latest and best way to move your body,” Dr. Wasfy says.
Breaking down the data
What health benefits does each approach offer? A sampling of recent studies and official health guidance weighs in.
Evidence supporting exercise bursts includes the following:
- A 2022 analysis of data collected on more than 25,200 people who didn’t otherwise exercise (average age 62, 56% women) published in Nature Medicine found that those who routinely did brief bursts of vigorous activity — defined as three bouts, each lasting a minute or two — had significantly lower odds of dying or developing cardiovascular disease over the following seven years than participants who didn’t.
- A 2023 analysis in JAMA Oncology of more than 22,000 people who didn’t exercise (average age 62, 55% women) suggested that even short, intermittent periods of intense movement — a minute at a time, three or four times a day — was linked with 18% lower cancer risk over the following 6.7 years, especially for cancers of the breast, uterus, or colon.
Evidence supporting longer, moderate-intensity exercise includes the following:
- Adults who do any amount of moderate-to-vigorous exercise derive health benefits, including reducing their risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some forms of cancer, according to the CDC.
- A 2022 analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine involving 78,000 people (average age 61, 55% women) found their risk of heart disease, cancer, and premature death dropped by 10% over the following seven years for every 2,000 steps they logged each day, with the benefit peaking at 10,000 steps.
Sense a theme from the findings? Regardless of intensity, it’s apparent that any movement is good for your health.
“No one comes out ahead with regards to the long-term outcomes,” Dr. Wasfy says. “What matters most is moving your body and doing more of it. The sum of movement, over the course of a year or decades of your life, is what matters.”
Exercise caveats
One clear advantage to exercise bursts — or its cousin, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) — is that any high-intensity activity enables you to fulfill recommended exercise guidelines in less time. Health organizations advise adults to get at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise (or some equivalent combination of the two) per week. For an HIIT workout, you alternate vigorous, short sprints with brief periods of rest or lower-intensity movement.
“It’s a time-efficient way to get your recommended exercise dose in less time,” Dr. Wasfy says.
High-intensity exercise does pose a few drawbacks, however. These include a greater risk of injuries and inflammation to joints and muscles. Additionally, for people with heart disease or its risk factors, sudden bursts of exercise could be more likely to bring on new cardiac symptoms.
“If you’re writing an exercise prescription not knowing anything about someone’s health history, you’d write it for moderate-intensity, continuous exercise,” Dr. Wasfy says.
If you’d like to increase your exercise intensity but have existing heart disease — or symptoms such as chest pain with vigorous movement — talk to your doctor in advance. Older adults who’ve noticed their ability to exercise has declined should also speak up.
Ultimately, Dr. Wasfy says, you should choose a style of exercise you really like — and will do consistently — and disregard fitness trends. “If you’re healthy,” she says, “it’s really your choice.”
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