What's better. walking or riding your bike?

Question

hmm

Answer 1

Walking, plus it has all the same benefits as running.

Answer 2

Definitely riding your bike. Unless you walk longer than you ride your bike :P

Answer 3

riding ur bike besause its good exirsise and u can have some fun with it and its quicker then walking

Answer 4

both are great but walking is exercise for the arms and legs and it burns more fat

Answer 5

Cycling, it's easy or as hard as you could possibly want. Walking is what I do if I have a flat and no spare.

Answer 6

bike riding... cus u actually get some fun going down those hills :P

Answer 7

bike

Answer 8

bike riding

Answer 9

Depends on what you wish to achieve... ideally both have their own advantage and disadvantages...

Cycling is "better" in a lot of ways for weight loss, cario fitness, and general body health.....but only if you do it with a purpose. Just pedalling around slowly without working yourself isn't going to help out much. Overall, cycling will use more muscles than walking, but different muscles. This is why cycling and swimming are the two best activities for people in therapy or recovery.

Walking will strengthen your ankles, feet, and parts of your trunk muscles that cycling doesn't affect. It can also help with general balance. Flat walking and stair climbing use very different muscles in your legs than cycling does. I think if fitness and weight loss are your goals, you should do both of them. Just be happy with whatever exercise you do, so that you'll keep doing it!

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Answer 10

Cycling is superior in many ways. It offers a highly variable workout for easy to as hard as you like - far better than walking. It's a lot more fun which means you may do it more. It's easier on the knees than even walking. The only advantage of walking is you need almost no equipment and can do it almost anywhere. But, again it's a very limited exercise in terms of cardio, leg strength and calories burned. Even very out of shape, overweight people can cycle and they can build up time and intensity as they get fit.

Walking is highly over rated. Yes, it's better than sitting around but it's a limited, light-weight exercise intended for the couch potato crowd that doesn't like exercise. Cycling is good for the couch potatos as well as super fit athletes.

Finally, walking isn't nearly as good a work out as running - when runner tire - they WALK. Walking doesn't burn a lot of calories and doesn't work out your upper body. Where all these wrong ideas come from eludes me.

Answer 11

better in what way?

this could be a matter of preference.

and it could be a matter of effect.

weight loss?

cardio?

stress on joints?

Answer 12

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riding bike

Answer 13

of course riding a bicycle, it can help you burn fats. it can make you fit, it can blow away all the problems in your head.

Answer 14

riding, why would i want to walk my bike

Answer 15

both are equally good! DUH!

Answer 16

walking

Answer 17

Bike because you can loose more weight!!

Answer 18

well, i used to walk alot, hiking, didn,t care for cycling too much, thought about it,but never did it much,   so about three years ago my knee just gave up the ghost, and i had to hobble around oh, for about two years, couldn,t walk more then fifty or so feet, i went and bought a bicycle, it helped me, i could get around, it was better than walking with a cane, and i could at least get here and there,  in three years i have had four, no five bicylces, i still do not walk too much, my knee as of July 31st will be three years, i have an artificle knee, although my foot is really messed up and i can,t walk but a few miles anyway,    seems i broke it sometime back at least ten years ago,   last year i hoped a doctor was going to do it right, but the problem still exists, and i am $10.ooo, poorer, well, i paid myself back, but ten grand out of my pocket, and if i want to get it maybe fixed i have to go back to nyc,    oh well, sorry about telling you my life story here,     as to what is better, i ride the bicycle more than i walk, i put in at least a 100 miles a week, and i bought a street bicycle with skinny tires it really moves,    love it,    thanks for asking,    if i could get someone to follow me in a car, i would attempt to ride across the USA,   but no such luck, yeah, i want to do it free style,      okay thanks again, for allowing me to ramble