The growing popularity of electric bikes that help their users to pedal or even ride with no human effort at all, do not achieve their training goals. This conclusion was made by German researchers from the Hannover Medical School.
The study shows that electric bicycles, which are in demand among a significant number of people, do not provide adequate physical activity for the human body, which can be considered the fulfillment of the training task set for each day. In other words, if a person needs to spend 20-30 minutes every day on intense workouts or an hour on moderate ones, riding an electric bike will not count. The fact is that these gadgets practically pedal themselves instead of a person, which means that the level of loads decreases sharply, no matter how much we ride on them.
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Of course, it is much more pleasant for people to ride an electric bike than a conventional one. They are equipped with built-in motors that help you pedal, and in most cases this is not required at all. Simply press a button on the handlebar and the bike will ride by itself until it runs out of battery power. But in this case, a person just sits and does not train the leg muscles in any way, which means that those same physical activities do not occur.
Electric bicycles train a person as well as conventional ones
However, German experts say that these vehicles can still be useful. For example, they encourage people to get into the saddle who would otherwise simply not do it. For example, elderly or obese people. And here even some additional physical effort is already beneficial. (READ MORE)
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