http://runningfitnesstips.com/running-fitness-questions-answers/fitness-question-biking-to-running/ Running Fitness Tips to Get in Shape Wed, 23 May 2012 07:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://runningfitnesstips.com/running-fitness-questions-answers/fitness-question-biking-to-running/comment-page-1/#comment-2070 lemakine Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:06:21 +0000 http://www.runningfitnesstips.com/running-fitness-questions-answers/fitness-question-biking-to-running/#comment-2070 I think biking is better for your body. Odds are, you are running on asphalt, concrete, or something else hard. That hurts your knees more than anything. With biking, it isn't always a constant rate. Going downhill and riding on flat surfaces makes it easy and sometimes required to coast. I would bike for a longer period of time than you run, or alternate between both. While biking outside is healthier for you, sometimes taking it easy on a treadmill is better than running on hard surfaces. It might take more to get yourself in shape if you bike, bit it really won't be too much extra, if any at all. My old youth pastor retired at age sixty and biked from Georgia to Washington state to Maine and back to Georgia in about two and a half months or so, biking about 100 miles each day and resting one day every weekend! He's is in the best shape of his life! I think biking is better for your body. Odds are, you are running on asphalt, concrete, or something else hard. That hurts your knees more than anything. With biking, it isn’t always a constant rate. Going downhill and riding on flat surfaces makes it easy and sometimes required to coast. I would bike for a longer period of time than you run, or alternate between both.
While biking outside is healthier for you, sometimes taking it easy on a treadmill is better than running on hard surfaces. It might take more to get yourself in shape if you bike, bit it really won’t be too much extra, if any at all. My old youth pastor retired at age sixty and biked from Georgia to Washington state to Maine and back to Georgia in about two and a half months or so, biking about 100 miles each day and resting one day every weekend! He’s is in the best shape of his life!

]]> http://runningfitnesstips.com/running-fitness-questions-answers/fitness-question-biking-to-running/comment-page-1/#comment-2068 Amber Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:21:45 +0000 http://www.runningfitnesstips.com/running-fitness-questions-answers/fitness-question-biking-to-running/#comment-2068 This is only an opinion, but I feel that biking can be a lot less intense, but easier on your joints. To make it worth your while, increase the time spent biking, try going against the wind, on grass, or uphill for some varied difficulties to get more out of it. Try to feel your muscles and contract them while you bike or run. Tighten your stomach and butt! You may look like a moron at some point but I always heard that helps tone/work those muscles more. This is only an opinion, but I feel that biking can be a lot less intense, but easier on your joints. To make it worth your while, increase the time spent biking, try going against the wind, on grass, or uphill for some varied difficulties to get more out of it. Try to feel your muscles and contract them while you bike or run. Tighten your stomach and butt! You may look like a moron at some point but I always heard that helps tone/work those muscles more.

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