Should i bike every day, or every other day?

Question

I usually go about 4-5 miles and about half of it is uphill. I know when working out your supposed to give your body a day to rest in between workouts. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I work out at the gym and run a mile. My real question is if biking is a cardio workout because if it is then I should go every day right? After rides my quads are mildly tired, but during the ride they definitely burn.

Answer 1

Every day,

I ride 6 days a week and i know alot of other people that do also, doing around 600km a week for approx 20hrs.

Even friends that race BMX which is a power / sprinting sport train 6 days a week for around 20hrs a week although this includes alot of gym work not just on the bike.

Your body will tell you if your too tired and you need to take a few extra days off. If your doing other work-outs you may not want to ride every day. But at 4-5miles you could easily manage this every day.

When training alot you need to train in blocks. Such as if you do 4 20hour weeks you should take a week of low intensity / shorter hours to recover and rest and then do another block of 4 20hr weeks and then another recovery week to make sure you don't over-train too much and get fatigued and run down.

Answer 2

Every other day is fine, just make sure you use it as your cardio and try to step up the intensity, if your only doing 5 miles.

Answer 3

Every Day is fine as long as you stretch. Once you rid yourself of that nasty lactic acid the pain you feel will disappear. Walking is a great cool down exercise too.

Answer 4

very other day

Answer 5

I think you should go every other day because if you do every day you could work out your muscles to much and get a horrible pain on your muscles  

Answer 6

For cardio work you can do every day but if you pedal with low rps and mash the pedals you will need to rest because its more like lifting heavy weights.   4 to 5 miles is not much of a work out unless you just started.  For cadio work you want to pedal at a high cadence around 70-90 rpm with a lite pressure on the pedals.