
Do you lose calories while cycling if you are rolling downhill most of the time?
Bad Cycling Advice Ep.3
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Calories
Bicycles
Then this slope usually catches up on the way back, but I still swing the straight road after the slope without much effort and pedaling, picking up speed at 2/7 speed, that is, maximum speed in medium mode.
Everyone is talking about 200-300 calories per hour, but I hardly get tired. So do you lose calories while driving like this?
Answer 1
March, 2021Are calories being spent?))
Of course, they are. They are wasted even if you lie and blink.
Question: why do you do certain actions, what do you want to get as a result?
If the goal of cycling is to spend more calories, then choose a riding mode in which you need pedaling constantly.
In this case, you will perform constant actions that will lead to the expenditure of calories.
Rolling down the hill, you certainly spend less than pedaling.
How much you spend can be roughly understood when wearing a fitness bracelet, because it adjusts to your parameters, monitors the pulse, operating time, etc., depends on the model
Answer 2
March, 2021The most optimal thing is to track the pulse during the descent, depending on this, you can calculate the number of calories. You cannot compare the ascent and descent)