Are you overweight and have no time for gym? Take heart, you can lose weight just as effectively and fast as you might at a fitness centre, by biking to work, say researchers.<\/p>\n
The findings showed that \u201cactive commuting\u201d using a bike is a good alternative to gym exercise in the fight against overweight and obesity.<\/p>\n
The people who cycled to work were as physically active and burned the same amount of calories a week as those who indulged in high and moderate intensity of physical exercise in the gym.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is good news to the many overweight people who may not have the time or inclination to join a fitness centre, because they also have to pick up their children and cook dinner after work,\u201d said Bente Stallknecht, Professor and Head of Department at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur results show that it is possible to combine transport to and from work with effective physical exercise,\u201d Stallknecht added.<\/p>\n
For the study, published in the International Journal of Obesity, the team divided 130 participants randomly into four groups: a cycling group, two leisure time exercise groups doing high-intensity and moderate-intensity physical exercise, respectively, and a control group.<\/p>\n
The participants were 20-45 years old, and had a BMI of 25-35 kg\/m2.<\/p>\n
After six months, the results of the control group was put against the other three.<\/p>\n
The fat mass reduced by 4.5 kg in the group doing high-intensity leisure time exercise; by 2.6 kg in the group doing moderate-intensity leisure time exercise and by 4.2 kg in the group riding the bike to work.<\/p>\n
\u201cRiding the bike to and from work is at least as effective a means for reducing fat mass as exercising during your leisure time,\u201d explained Jonas Salling Quist, Research Assistant at the varsity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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