Cycling Blog

Sweating is inevitable while cycling. Sometimes you may hate it. However, if you want to lose weight by cycling, you may be very happy to sweat. Because it means burning your fat. But sweating can take away some trace elements from our body. It can also cause dehydration due to excessive sweating. In one of my previous posts, I have talked about how to reduce sweat as much as possible. So next, I will tell you the effective ways to keep well-hydrated while cycling. Five quick ways are as follows.Drink adequate waterReplenish enough water in time is the first step....

The long hours of cycling undertaken by elite cross-country mountain bikers call for a high-energy diet - high in protein, vitamins, and minerals, and high in carbohydrate for muscle fuel stores, so does that by ordinary cyclists.Don’t start cycling with an empty stomach.The most important considerations are to consume carbohydrate and fluid and to allow adequate time for digestion before riding.1) Have a normal-sized meal approximately four hours before riding and a snack one to two hours before riding (see below for suggestions).2) If you are riding early in the morning, have a high-carbohydrate meal the night before and a...

In order to ensure your cycling journey goes on well and decrease unnecessary troublesome, it’s essential to start with some bodies and riding exercises. However, do you know what kind of exercise should you do? What are the best and most useful exercises? Many people start riding without any exercise before. It’s not a good idea for you. First, you can deal with the problem you’re about to meet, second, a wrong riding gesture and habit will do harm to your health and have a bad effect on your riding. As a veteran rider, I have summarized some basic but...

Belly fat is something bad that nobody wants. In the past years, researchers have shown that wearing too much weight around the waist is bad for health. The study told that the waistline over 40 inches for male and 35 inches for female cause the possibility that has the risk of heart disease, even you are not seriously overweight.So how can people reduce the belly fat? Everyone knows that the regular exercise can burn calories and lose weight. As a sort of aerobic exercise, cycling obviously becomes one popular choice and effective way to reduce the visceral fat because high-intensity...

Today I am going to show you how to overhaul Shimano SPD pedal bearing. You don’t need many tools and you have need a bear grease. So it is no reason not to stuck in and get your hands dirty.Shimano pedal bearings excellent quality. They don’t need a lot of looking after but a bit of preventative maintenance is always a good idea. Oder pedals use this tool, this castellated tool to remove the collar which removes cartridge which contains the bearings. We don’t need that anymore. All of the new pedals use a spanner flats. So the right-hand pedal...