What Are The Cycle Helmet Safety Standards?
If you’re buying a bike helmet, you clearly value your safety. However, not all helmets are made equal.
5 Mental Health Benefits Of Cycling
From improved joint mobility to better posture, there are lots of physical health benefits associated with cycling. But did you know how much it can also help with your mental health? It turns out – a lot! Let’s look at the top 5 mental health benefits of cycling. Reduces stress Day-to-day life can be overwhelming, but…
How Does Cycling Affect Our Stress Levels?
People start cycling for a number of reasons: to improve cardiovascular health, build muscle or just to improve their general fitness. However, although the physical benefits of cycling are widely documented, what is often forgotten is how much it can help our mental health too. According to statistics from The International Stress Management Association, stress…
75% Notice A Boost To Their Mental Health After Cycling – Survey
A survey by Cycleplan, which aimed to understand the health benefits people experienced after taking up cycling discovered that three-quarters of respondents noticed an improvement in their mental health. A third of the 971 respondents said cycling reduced their stress levels and made them feel more relaxed, with 8% even saying it helped with their…
How cycling affects your lungs
The benefit of exercise on your lungs is no secret. While this is widely acknowledged, cycling has often been left out of the conversation due to many believing it did more harm to your lungs than good. The culprit? Air pollution. Although no one can deny a cyclist will be exposed to a certain degree…
Cycling and injury: What you need to know
Cycling – on Britain’s roads especially – is perceived by many as dangerous. While to a degree this may be true, it’s not cycling itself that is dangerous, but rather other road users who increase the risk. Compared to other forms of aerobic exercise – like running for example – cycling is very low impact…
How Cycling Boosts Your Heart Health
No matter who you are, heart disease is a very real risk – it’s the biggest killer in the world. In the UK, it will kill 1 in 10 women and 1 in 7 men, and someone will die from it every eight minutes. Not only that, but it costs the NHS £15 billion a…
7 Ways to Burn More Calories While Cycling
A common reason people start cycling is to get fitter and lose weight as a result of being more active. By now, we’re all too familiar with the mantra that to lose weight we need to burn more calories than we consume. So, burning as many calories as you can during your bike ride will…
Did you know cycling cuts cancer risk in half?
You’d struggle to find someone whose life hadn’t been affected by cancer in some way. This is why we’re constantly inundated with messages from the NHS to take measures to both decrease our chances (such as not smoking) and spot the early signs if something sinister is happening to our bodies. Well, funnily enough, a…
