How much weight can you lose riding a bike?

Answer 1

There's no real answer to that, it all depends on how hard you ride, how long you ride and how much you eat. I can drop almost a pound/day when I'm out touring, but some of that is muscle mass, which isn't really a good thing in the long run. For a sustainable result a pound/week is a decent goal to aim for.

Answer 2

it doesnt matter it basically depends on how much you over eat. eat more ride more, eat less ride less...simple!

A brisk walk or bicycle ride for a minimum of 30 minutes, 4 times a week. An hour is better.

You need to burn 3500 calories to lose 1 pound. Cut back on your calories and exercise and you will lose weight. Guaranteed diet that works !!!

Answer 3

Really it comes down to time not distance. 40minutes or more of exercise a day will help go towards the effort of weight loss. Perhaps start off doing 3 miles and then build off of those three miles. For instance one day do three miles then four the next day and so on and so on.

Answer 4

W/o a proper diet - none.

4 miles is about 20 minutes worth of riding at a modest pace, which in terms of calorie usage is maybe half a donut or thereabouts. If you include the period of increased metabolic rate afterwards maybe you get up to one donut's worth of energy used up.

Basically - unless you control your diet the weight loss available from from exercise only isn't much. But if you manage your diet then of course every little helps.

Answer 5

As much as you want - but only if you're also watching your diet.

With the high calorie foodstuff that we have available today it's so easy to overeat that any attempt at weight loss must start with controlling your intake. it's virtually impossible to burn enough through exercise to lose any weight if your eating isn't controlled.

You also need to put some time and effort into it, a few minutes at a pace that doesn't raise a sweat won't do anything. We're talking hours/week at a decently elevated heart rate.

Answer 6

Depends on your eating habits. 4 miles, that's maybe 20 minutes of riding. That's 200 calories tops geing used up.

If your eating is SPOT ON, losing 200 cals/day would lose you one pound every 18th(eighteenth) day.

If you're overeating, you probably won't lose a thing.

Any serious attempt at weight loss has to start with you controlling your intake. You just can't exercise hard enough to lose weight if you're overeating.

Answer 7

There's really no telling, it's all down to what you're eating and how hard you're riding. Eating junk and then pootling around for one hour won't do much. Maintaining a sensible diet and then riding hard for one hour can accomplish a lot.

With the high-calorie foodstuffs we have available today, every attempt at weight loss pretty much has to start by controlling your intake.

For most of us, it's just not possible to exercise hard enough to compensate for a really poor diet. One single cupcake outside your allowance will take something like 45 minutes of hard workout to use up.

But with a controlled diet and exercise, it's possible to lose 1-3 pounds/week w/o any health concerns.

Answer 8

Defiantly cycling help u reduce your weight But u have to do it consistently & regularly . Then you will get positive result .