What are the pros and cons of riding a bicycle?

Nowadays, many people are increasingly aware of the importance of sports. In the past, many people who rode bicycles envied those who drove cars, but now people who drive cars envy those who ride bicycles. Being able to ride a bicycle to work and enjoy the scenery along the way can not only exercise your body but also cultivate your sentiments. This is something that people who drive cars cannot experience. So what are the pros and cons of riding a bicycle? Let’s find out together!

benefit:

1. Bicycle is one of the best tools to overcome heart problems. More than half of the world's population dies of heart disease. Cycling not only compresses blood flow through leg movements and draws energy from blood vessel endings to the heart, but it actually strengthens microvascular tissue at the same time. This is called collateral circulation. Strengthening your blood vessels can protect you from the threats of aging and keep you forever young.

2. Habitual cycling exercise can expand your heart. Otherwise, your blood vessels will become thinner and your heart will degenerate. In your later years, you will experience the troubles it brings. Then you will find how perfect cycling is.

3. Cycling can also prevent high blood pressure, sometimes more effectively than medication. It can also prevent obesity, vascular sclerosis, and strengthen bones. Cycling saves you from the need for medication to stay healthy and is completely harmless.

4. Bicycles are a tool for weight loss. According to statistics, a person weighing 75 kilograms can lose half a kilogram of weight by riding 73 miles at a speed of 9.5 miles per hour, but he must persist in doing so every day.

5. Cycling can not only help you lose weight, but also make your body more shapely and attractive. People who lose weight through exercise, or who exercise while dieting, have better and more attractive figures than those who only rely on dieting to lose weight.

6. In fact, because cycling compresses blood vessels, blood circulation is accelerated, and the brain takes in more oxygen, so you breathe in more fresh air. After riding for a while, you will feel your mind is clearer.

7. Riding this two-wheeled bicycle that relies on your own physical strength, you will feel very free and refreshed. You can forget the unhappiness and difficulties in work and life and release unnecessary pressure.

8. Bicycles can take you sightseeing for free. As long as you have time on the weekend, you can ride your bike, follow your friends, and get close to nature. If you have enough time, you can travel long distances, experience different customs and cultures, feel the charm of different cultures, increase your knowledge and experience, and enhance communication and exchanges between you and your friends. It is not only a weight loss exercise, but also a joyful exile of the soul.

Disadvantages of riding a bicycle:

The most controversial harm: "Effects on sex."

Reason: Riding a bicycle will compress the perineum, affecting local blood circulation, causing discomfort in the genitals, and even causing prostatitis and "impotence".

Male prostate congestion and "impotence": Many men who ride bicycles will feel genital pain, anal swelling, the urge to defecate, penis numbness, or urinary urgency, frequent urination, testicular discomfort, etc. after riding.

The reason is that the genitals are squeezed when riding a bicycle, causing the prostate to become congested and swollen. The traditional bicycle seat, especially the saddle with narrow rear part and pointed front part, can make men fall into the embarrassment of impotence.

Congestion and swelling of female vulva: Some female patients ride bicycles to and from get off work for a long time. If the seat is too high, too hard, or the handlebars are at an inappropriate height, too much of the body weight will be concentrated on the seat, which will react on the perineum through the narrow front end of the seat, compressing the upper urethra and external sphincter, causing congestion of the urinary system, leading to difficulty in urination or frequent and urgent urination, or leading to inflammation such as congestion and swelling of the vulva.

By reading the text above, we can see that the advantages of riding a bicycle outweigh its disadvantages. Regular cycling can not only serve as a good exercise, but also allows you to travel and sightsee for free and have close contact with nature. Although it may cause certain harm to the body, if you pay more attention when riding a bicycle, there are still many benefits to the body.