One of the most important aspects of cycling is climbing,
if you get better at climbing you'll improve your overall cycling
speed.
One of the best ways to improve your riding is
by optimizing your weight to power ratio. Extra weight, at any event,
only holds a cyclist back when the road goes uphill. The magic here is
the power-to-weight ratio: the more power you can produce, and the
less you weigh, the faster you will climb.
In order to improve your power to weight ratio, you can decrease your
weight and/or you can increase your power.
To get an approximate idea of how much calories you
burn when cycling, use the calculator bellow.
Calories Burned Calculator (cycling)
Estimate the calories you burned on your bike ride:
Pace:
Weight:
Time:
Now that you have an idea of how much calories you burn while cycling
use the next calculator to see how many calories you need to maintain
your current weight.
First calculate how many calories you are currently eating, be real
with the amount of exercise you do, that way the calculation comes
closer to your real calorie usage.
Once you know the amount, start
finding out in what places can you save some calories. My experience
is that diets are hard to do and maintain, so the best is to start by
finding foods that you can improve on.
If you are riding and your weight stays the same it means that
you are eating enough calories to maintain it, and if you are still gaining
weight then you are eating to much calories, so if you want to loose weight you
need to be in a calorie deficit to do it.
Example: if you need 2200 calories a day to maintain, then you will need to
eat less than 2200 calories to start loosing weight, or maybe start riding more and eat the
same to loose the weight.
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