To lose weight effectively, we must do two things: first, aerobic exercise; First, a reasonable diet.
Running or brisk walking reduces the whole body and makes it symmetrical. Riding a bike is the same as riding a bike.
Different body movement patterns
Compared with cycling, running is different in rhythm, posture and whole body force point. The first is the difference in exercise rhythm. Running needs to be as fast as possible, not only fast, but also with your feet off the ground shortly after landing. On the other hand, bicycles have strong muscle contraction, long contraction time and slow movement speed because of high resistance.
Secondly, the posture of running and cycling is different, which leads to different positions of body stress. Take the hip joint as an example: when running, the position of the hip joint moves between 40 degrees flexion and 15 degrees extension; When riding a bicycle, the position of the hip joint moves between 90-degree flexion and 30-degree flexion, and the hip joint is not fully extended at all. When running, you need to take your hips as the axis, drive your legs with core strength, and your hips control the whole movement rhythm, which is difficult to understand when riding a bicycle.
In addition, cycling uses more front thigh muscles, such as quadriceps femoris. However, running requires higher strength of the posterior thigh, lower back and iliopsoas muscle.
The types of kinematic chains are different.
Several links of the human body are connected together in a certain order, which is called a sports chain. The lower limbs are composed of hip joint, thigh, knee joint, calf, ankle joint and foot. Each joint is a link.
Running is an open-chain sport: the proximal end is fixed and the distal end is free. For example, when running, the legs are swinging when the feet are flying, and biceps brachii is trained with dumbbells.
Riding is a closed chain movement: the far end closes (such as touching the ground, wall or desktop) and the near end moves (trunk), which can be called closed chain. For example, the upper limbs are propped up to do push-ups, and riding a bicycle with both feet on the ground is a typical example.
During closed-chain exercise, joints rarely have tangential component and external impact force, which is a common choice for functional rehabilitation. However, if there is a certain muscle that needs special emphasis on independent training, choose open-chain exercise. For example, the iliopsoas muscle is weak, and it may be necessary to carry out open-chain exercise training (such as leg lifting exercise).