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Our Top Posts about How Ebikes Can Improve Health and Fitness

January 1, 2019 by Average Joe Cyclist 1 Comment

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Did you know that electric bikes can be used for fitness training? Or that they have been scientifically proven to increase the amount of cycling people do? Or that they have proven health and fitness benefits? Well, it’s all true! Apart from being tons of fun, ebikes can be used to improve health and fitness in many ways. Here are our top posts about how ebikes can improve your health and fitness.

Our Top Posts about How Ebikes Can Improve Health and Fitness. Electric bikes turn exercising into fun!
Electric bikes turn exercising into fun!

How to Use an Electric Bike to Get Fit

An electric bike allows you to exercise without putting excessive strain on your joints and muscles, so that you can safely build your strength and fitness, even if you have not exercised for many years, or have health barriers and challenges. This post describes three different ways in which you can use an ebike to get fitter and healthier.

5 Important Health Benefits of Electric Bikes

Our Top Posts about How Ebikes Can Improve Health and Fitness. Riding ebikes just puts a smile on most people's faces!
Riding ebikes just puts a smile on most people’s faces!

This post describes the health benefits of electric bikes, based on scientific research and on the experiences of electric bike riders. These health benefits include getting significant levels of exercise, improving cardiac health, improving blood sugar levels, strengthening muscles, bones and joints, building confidence, being able to keep cycling as we age, and preventing serious diseases.

How Many Calories Can You Burn on an Electric Bike?

Some people seem to think that riding an e-bike is much like surfing a couch – that riding an electric bike requires expending no energy and burning no calories. Anyone who has tackled tough commutes on an electric bike knows how wrong that is! This post shows the surprising number of calories you can burn on an electric bike.

Research Shows Electric Bikes Make People Cycle Longer and More Often – Especially Women

Our Top Posts about How Ebikes Can Improve Health and Fitness. Researchers have found that people cycle further on an electric bike. That has definitely been our experience!
Researchers have found that people cycle further on an electric bike. That has definitely been our experience!

A study out of Norway shows that electric bikes cause people to cycle longer and more often. The effect was strongest on women. For those wanting to get more exercise, this is really good news. Read more in this post!

Video: How Ebikes Helped Paul Achieve his Dream of Becoming a Bike Commuter

Our Top Posts about How Ebikes Can Improve Health and Fitness. Click to watch a video about how ebikes helped Paul achieve his dream of becoming a bike commuter
Click to watch a video about how ebikes helped Paul achieve his dream of becoming a bike commuter

Here is a great video about how electric bikes can help people achieve their dreams. Paul Dieter lives in Seattle, Washington, and dreamed of becoming a bike commuter – but he faced some challenges. In this video, Paul explains how ebikes proved to be the solution, and how his FLX Trail electric bike has changed his life for the better.

Case Studies: 3 Seniors who Regained their Health with Electric Bikes

Our Top Posts about How Ebikes Can Improve Health and Fitness

Here are 3 case studies of seniors who have come back from illness by exercising on electric bikes. The challenges they faced included multiple heart attacks, cancer, neurological problems, and stroke. But they didn’t let that stop them – they got out there on electric bikes, and they kept on exercising and enjoying life! Because of cycling on electric bikes, they have all enjoyed an improvement in their health, and a better quality of life. And they are all bravely modelling how to NOT go gently into that good night. Read their stories and be inspired to improve your own health too.

Cycling Training Plans from Average Joe Cyclist

The following cycling training plans are from our other blog, Average Joe Cyclist. Although they were written with regular bikes in mind, every one of them can just as well be done with an ebike.

Average Joe Cyclist’s Beginner Cyclist Training Plan: Phase 1

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. Our Beginner's Beginner Cyclist's Training Plan will get you started, and put you on your way to keeping up with THOSE guys!
Our Beginner Cyclist’s Training Plan will get you started, and put you on your way to keeping up with THOSE guys!

This one is an ideal cycling training plan if:

  • You are just getting started with cycling; or
  • You have never followed a structured cycling training plan, and want to see how much fitter you could get with a structured plan; or
  • You want to gradually train to the point where you can tackle your first charity bike ride.

To get started, you don’t need anything but a bike and a few minutes a day! You will work your way up to three hours per week.

Click here for Average Joe Cyclist’s Beginner Cyclist Training Plan: Phase 1.

Average Joe Cyclist’s Beginner Cyclist Training Plan: Phase 2 – Interval Training

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. Phase 2 is for you if you are already fit enough to cycle for one hour continuously at an easy pace
Phase 2 is for you if you are already fit enough to cycle for one hour continuously at an easy pace

This one is an ideal cycling training plan if:

  • You are already fit enough to cycle for one hour continuously at an easy pace.
  • You are ready to take your cycling fitness and ability up to the next level.

In Phase 2 of the Beginner Cyclist Training Plan you begin to incorporate interval training into your workouts. This will cause increased calorie burn, fight stress, and help you to get fit faster. Recent research also shows that high intensity interval training is the most effective exercise for fighting aging.

Click here for Average Joe Cyclist’s Beginner Cyclist Training Plan: Phase 2 – Interval Training.

How to Get Bike Fit: Complete Bike Training Plan

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. If you keep asking your body to do more, it will grow stronger and fitter to adapt to your demands
If you keep asking your body to do more, it will grow stronger and fitter to adapt to your demands

This one is an ideal cycling training plan if:

  • You want to get very fit within a few months, build lean muscle, shed stress, and burn a lot of calories.
  • You ultimately want to achieve a very high level of fitness – and maybe even do some competitive cycling!

This is a complete bike training plan, incorporating all of the principles and techniques of Phase 1 and 2 above. It includes a chart for measuring exercise intensity (for those who don’t own a heart rate monitor yet). This plan includes Phase 3, in which you kick it up a further notch to achieve even higher levels of fitness.

Click here for Our Complete Bike Training Plan!

A Guide for Fat Cyclists

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. Extra weight should NOT stop you from getting on a bike to have fun and get fitter!
Extra weight should NOT stop you from getting on a bike to have fun and get fitter! Click here for our guide for fat cyclists

This one is an ideal cycling training plan if:

  • You carry extra weight, and want to get fitter with cycling (which is an excellent low-impact exercise that will put less strain on your knees than walking or running).

Many people (myself included) spend most of their lives being fat, and this may be healthier than a weight that yo-yos up and down – especially if we get regular exercise, such as cycling. Nonetheless, many fat cyclists experience discrimination, and that is just plain wrong. Everyone has the right to ride a bike; and fat cyclists should not feel pressured to lose weight, or be made to feel that we don’t belong on the bike path. That said, there are some extra challenges for us plus-sized cyclists, such as finding an appropriate bike and clothing. This post is about how to deal with those challenges, so you can enjoy cycling, regardless of what your scale has to say.

Click here for our Guide for Fat Cyclists

How to Prevent Cycling Knee and Hip Pain – Complete Guide to Stretching for Cyclists

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. Click here for our complete guide to stretching! Complete bike training plan
Click here for our complete guide to stretching!

Once you start cycling, it is very possible that your fitness goals will be slowed down by cycling knee pain. This selection of stretches will help you prevent cycling knee pain. It also has some basic exercises, if you want to be even more proactive!

How to Cure Cycling Knee Pain with a Miraculous, Cheap Cure

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. Check out my cure for cycling knee pain!
Check out my cure for cycling knee pain!

If you have already developed cycling knee pain, this post could help you. It has helped thousands of other people, and still helps me out from time to time, when I overdo things, and forget to stretch. The post includes a video with 3 exercises for cycling knee pain.

Cycling as a Miracle Health Cure

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. We simply did not evolve to sit in front of a computer all day. No wonder exercise is such a mood lifter, and so good for our health! Find out how cycling will protect you against a range of deadly or debilitating diseases ...
We simply did not evolve to sit in front of a computer all day. No wonder exercise is such a mood lifter, and so good for our health! Find out how cycling will protect you against a range of deadly or debilitating diseases …

In case you need some extra inspiration to get started with your fitness training goals, read this post! Many people think that the main health benefit of exercise such as cycling is weight loss. Sure, exercise helps with weight loss, obviously – but weight loss is not the main reason why you should exercise. The main health benefit of exercise is that exercise will dramatically improve your health throughout your life. In fact, exercise has so many health benefits that the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC) declared recently that exercise is a “miracle cure.” Read this post to see some of the amazing health benefits that cycling could bring to your life. The post includes an inspirational video about Phil, who started off being morbidly obese, and literally saved his own life with cycling.

Video: How to Cure Cycling Hip Pain

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. Saqib demonstrates 3 stretches to cure cycling hip pain
3 stretches to cure cycling hip pain!

This popular video shows you how to quickly and efficiently cure hip pain associated with cycling. This is a common complaint among cyclists, but most people can keep it under control with a few simple hip stretches.

Our Most Popular Cycling Training Plans. I hope one of these cycling training plans helps you to feel like a superhero! Photograph by Inspired Storytellers
I hope one of these cycling training plans helps you to feel like a superhero! Photograph by Inspired Storytellers

I hope one of these cycling training posts helps you to achieve your fitness and cycling goals this year!

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  1. Tony Rice says

    February 12, 2019 at 7:44 pm

    Do you have any tips or stories from people who ebike tour. I have a TREK Duel Sport ebike that I’m turning into a touring bike. Planning some over nighters, a 4 to 5 day Columbia Gorge ride, a multi day Tahoe and back ride and maybe the KATY trail.

    P.S. I’m 69

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