Is Using Fixed Bicycle helpful in losing weight and specifically abdomen? what is advantages and disadvantage?
453124
well sure it helps but the key is a balanced diet along with exercise just by doing exercise wont help you lose weight as if afterwards you go and eat a hamburger and chips you will just pile the weight back on. Another advantage of using a fixed bicycle is that it will build up you leg muscles and some stomach muscles.
71837
there is no such thing as "spot reduction"- the body does not lose fat that way.  exercising a body part does not cause it to lose fat in that part.  the body loses fat in the reverse order it put it on- and that is an individual feature of everyone's body.  Now, you could strengthen/grow the muscles of the abdomen, and that might change the overall appearance of that area (maybe stretch here, contract there) but that's it.
67816
I had a professional measure and calculate different exercises for me in terms of most calories burned in shortest period of time.  Based on their calculations an eliptical machine was the best.  It was superior to treadmills, walking, swimming, bicycling and many other activities I had them check for me.  An eliptical machine gives a good cardio work out while you utilize your legs, arms, abs and many other muscles.  It is a smooth movement which keeps you from suffering impact injuries that can be associated with jogging and running.  So I say if your goal is weight loss or stabalization an eliptical is a good choice.  I combine my use of an eliptical with racquet ball, swimming, walking, bicycling, weight training, and yoga.  The combination is great!  For fastest calorie burn it's the eliptical.  All depends on what you want out of your exercise.
206022
Lose weight through whole-body exercise.
447202
Heres a few websites I found on the subject\n\nI think that you can loose weight on this if yo follow the directions \n\nHope you enjoy reading them\n\nI think that I might try them myself\nGood Luck
103629
Doing any sort of excersize will help you lose weight everywhere in your body, though cycling will target and strengthen your leg muscles.  Ride alot, though, and you'll certianly loose weight everywhere.  If you'r loosing to lose weight fram you butt, then cycling wont do it as efficienty as say, a stair climber, but you'll lose it.
236457
i would reccoment low impact cardiovascular exercise such as bike riding\n\nresearch HYBRID style bicycles\n-hybrids have an upright seating position, this helps in taking off stress from leaning over like on mountain bikes. Hybrids also have a suspension seatpost which reduces impact on your back from bumps in the road. Bicycling involves smooth pedal motions which wont hurt your knee's as bad as walking. With the amount of gears available on bikes now-a-days, your sure to find one that is comfortable for your body. Try this, I work in a bike shop and get people with knee and back injurys all the time. This is highly reccomended
625052
I used to ride one of those big cushy gel seats and still have discomfort, so I talked to someone at a reputable bike shop about it.  He said that those seats can cause you to rotate forward, diminishing pressure on your butt, but increasing pressure on your crotch area and the pubic bone.  He suggested a saddle with a split down the middle because it distributes pressure more evenly.  He said to look for one in which the edges of the split are not too pronounced or "sharp" and selected one he thought would work for me.  Then he put electrical tape on the rails so that I could ride with it a few times and then take it off and remove the tape if it didn't work (so that it would be in new enough condition to return.)  It's worked out pretty well so far and I appreciated the fact that they were willing to find a way to let me test it out.
570624
I don't know how to answer the 'how beneficial' part, but yes it is.\n\nBicycling will increase your heart's strength, keep your weight down, exercise your lungs, and release your stress.\n\nThe only downside is risk of injury (which isn't beneficial to your health) so please be careful, wear a helmet, use lights at night, and learn the rules of the road. Yeah I know. yadda yadda yadda.
1035763
Heh, yea biking is an excellent way to loose excess pounds. I have raced bikes since I was 10-11 and I am 21 now-- I'm 6'0" and am only 147 pounds. You probably shouldn't expect to become that light, it takes hours and hours on a saddle-- I would expect most people would want to be a little heavier anyways. The amount of weight you will loose is dependent on how many calories you are able to burn per ride, versus how many calories you eat in one day. The speed that you have to ride to burn a certain amount of calories is dependent on serveral variables: 1. What kind of bike you have (Road or Mountain... or hybrid) 2. The terrain that you will ride on (hilly, flat, huge climbs, etc.) 3. And what kind of wind you will encounter (headwind, tailwind, etc.).  Most important, is that you keep the drive to ride. You have to begin to love riding, and not see it as a chore. The way I do this, is to keep my self motivated my charting by progress. Visit free websites like bikejournal.com where you can log your rides with an included calorie calculator. The website also offers a community of people, many with similar fitness goals as you. As you begin your new exercise routine, its important to remember that starting any new excerise is extremely difficult that first week. You will feel sluggish, and slow, but please understand that this is only temporary, as your muscles get used the the actions on a bike, rides will become exponentially more enjoyable. A good way to begin is to start easy, a flat ride at a moderate pace. Keep your RPMs below 70. After one week, you sould be able to turn the pedals at about 75 RPM, and after a month around 80. I know a poster above states she rides at 60RPM, but either a) thats not fast enought to really get an effective aerobic workout, or b) her gearing is off... ideally your RPM should hover at around 80 when you are riding a flat stretch (calculating by counting the amount of pedal strokes you take in 10 seconds and multiply by 60... or going out an purchasing a bike computer for about $30-50). Best of luck, and ride long, far, and fast.
507440
My regret is not how much the bicycle has changed our lives but rather, how much can the bicycle change our lives. The potential benefits of a bicycle are ernomous. First, a bicycle is the fastest ideal transport for the average person when you consider that most of us do not wander more that 10 miles or 16 kilometres from our house on an average day. In this situation, the bike is 2 times faster than a car in the city and 0.75 times as fast in the rural areas.\n\nConsider that while you are at it, the fuel needed is all the normal diet you have on a daily baasis. Since i started using a bicycle a half a year ago, i save on average $267 per month in fuel bills!!! That my friend is a saving of $1602 in the last six months! Factor in the fact that i am no longer generating global-warming fumes into the atmosphere nor putting destructive pressure on the infrastructure such as the roads and the positive contribution to the community is even higher.\n\nPersonally, i am also much fitter, thus reducing my health bill and also putting less pressure on the health infrastructure of my country. The fitness has improved my quality of life ... my spirits are more on the better side and thus i am  having more rewarding and pleasant relationships with my work mates, family, friends and neighbours! I no longer have long boring hours sitting before the TV. On the contrary i am full of energy, doing stuff around the house, socialising etc.\n\nBut the suprise benefit was the reduction in impulse buying!!! It is until i started riding that i discovered my credit card was over-inflated by over $1,333 per month on the average. Yes, that is right; i have eliminated that much credit card debt and i can vouch my bank account is now about $8000 healthier, a figure i have been having problems convincing myself is real!!! \n\nIn my humble opinion ... if we just paid a little more attention to the bike we would revolutionalize the world as we know it now ... we would eliminate oil related wars, we would drastically reduce heart related deaths and diseases, we would reduce national budgets for health and local government road maintenance, we would reduce financial-stress related crime, we would reduce public debt, we would drastically reduce the production of global warming gases and probably reverse the process, we would build better relationships among ourselves and create better, friendlier communities ... ohh, the list of how the bike can positively change our lives, individually, nationally or even internationally is long!!!!
811789
It is not good for any one.Because it has lot of side effects.There is no guarantee that u r going to maintain the same structure.The best way to reduce weight is diet and exercises,that too if u exercise with free weights that reduces the fat and makes ur bones strong,so two birds at a shot ,how is it  without wasting money and not getting troubled by knife
566598
No, the patches don't work, in my experience or the experiences of people I know.  The only thing I've found to reliably lose weight is hard physical labor.  Ride your bike, plant a vegetable garden, and if you can do household chores without appliances, do that too (wash dishes by hand, for instance).  That's the only dependable way to lose weight without injuring your health.
743966
First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.\n\n\nOn Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.\n\nDon't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. \n\nThere is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below. \n\nThe most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. \n\nAnother overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.\n\nTo lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.\n\nFor diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. \n\nFat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.\n\nThere is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs
1010298
Other than a cardiovascular workout, it strengthens legs (upper and lower) and buttox. Long distance or terrain riding can strenthen upper body over time if enough resistance it provided. And cycling is fun!
465702
Unfortunately you cant just lose fat from your abdomen and nowhere else. This is a myth called 'spot reduction'. \nJust doing abdominal exercises will not get you a flat toned stomach or sixpack, a combination of cardio, resistance exercises and a healthy diet will, but this will apply to the whole of your body and ultimetly comes down to percentage body fat and calorie expenditure.
847066
No, it's lazy and it's dangerous. If you really want to lose weight do it the proper way. People die because of stomach stapling, they claim all they want is to be thin - but apparently not enough to get out of their reinforced chair and do some exercise once in a while.