1 hour 30 mins bike riding a day - how soon will I see results?

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I have just started biking to and from work - which is about 45 mins each way. How soon will I notice improovement in fitness and weight loss. Also will this be enough to get me slimmer all over?

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There is no real way to tell you how long it will take to see results. There are a number of factors that can apply, so any one actually giving you a time frame is simply just guessing. It depends how hard you're biking. If it's just a casual ride to and from work, it's going to take a good bit longer than if you were getting your heart rate up. That's the way to go about it. You're going to want to get your heart rate up pretty high. You have to get good cardio out of it or else you're not going to see very promising results. This will, eventually, slim you all over. If you keep up with it, and if you make sure to watch your caloric intake. You will definitely be able to start noticing some leg definition forming before you start to lose any real weight, but that's just you building muscle. The weight loss starts to come after that.
 
well i started being a ciclist 2 years ago and it took me a lot of training to start noticing changes, the main changes were on my legs. anyhow ive always said its not the time u run, u can run up to 3 hours at a turtle speed and u wont do anything with that. its written on my training calendar, when i first started, i used to run 2.64 miles in 23 minutes. right now i can do a lot more than that in the same time cuz im more prepared than when i started, what i mean is, maybe u get to ur job in 45 mins, maybe i get there in 30, maybe some1 else gets there in 15 mins, its about the miles ur running and the speed ur running them, it is not the same to do 30 crunchs now, take a 30 minutes break and do 30 more, than to do 60 crunches straight, you excersise more if u do them all at once. same goes with this, its not the same running 3 miles at 30 mins than running em at 15 mins, the excersise is better if u do it faster cuz ur excersising ur legs more.


my advise is to keep time of it. before you start to run, put a timer to run with you, and stop it when u finish, write down ur time every time, when u get to ur job, write ur time, when u get to ur home write it again. dont try to beat ur record, if u go to work every day on bike u will break the time on ur own and u will see day by day that u r doing it faster and faster.
i hope i was helpful. best of luck :)

P.S- jefflove is right with what he sayd
 
do u do it everyday? a month maybe. lol no it wont be enough. you better do a more active thing.
 
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