Ever been in a situation where your parents teach you how dangerous motorcycle riding is? You have faced this situation at least once in your life. There is always someone talking negatively against bike riding. However, these situations should not rattle your passion for motorcycles.
Despite your firm resolve, no one likes to keep their mouth shut when someone else is criticizing something that you value very much. This article initially was written with the intent to let you understand the benefits of riding a motorcycle.
These benefits do not include the fun part. The content in this article will explain to you how motorcycle riding improves your physical health. Yes, you heard that right; bike riding is good for your health. Now let’s discuss how bike riding can improve your health.
Better Core Strength
Imagine that you are riding a motorcycle. A gusting wind is headed your way, what will you do? Stay calm, handle the steering, and maintain your posture. Focus on the last three words of the previous sentence. “Maintain your posture.” These are the same words that your physical education teacher taught you.
Maintaining your posture strengthens your abdomen muscles and improves your muscle tone. To summarize, motorcycle riding improves your core strength.
Stronger Neck
Another perk of riding a motorcycle is that it can improve your neck strength. How? The answer was written in a previous article. We have written various articles describing that you can buy a motorcycle that is suited to you. You can compare the weight and other parts of the bike and consider your body at the same time. The benefit of finding a motorcycle that fits well with your body is that it can improve your neck strength.
Also, when a rider wears a helmet, it improves his neck strength. This takes care of your back problems as well. You can improve your neck strength and back strength just by riding a motorcycle with a helmet.
Stronger Knees and Thighs
Riding a motorcycle improves your knee strength by strengthening knee muscles. These muscles hold the bones of the knee in place. This helps in preventing any knee problems.
Additionally, you can prevent thigh issues as well. Most of the muscles used to hold the knee bones in place reside in the thighs. It’s obvious that if you ride a motorcycle without straining your knees and thighs, then you can achieve better knee and thigh strength.
Improved Mental Strength
Ever seen a biker consult a psychiatrist? Leave this fact aside for the moment. Why are people referred to a psychiatrist in the first place? Answer: To cure their mental issues, which are mostly related to stress. Now, ask a simple question to a biker. “What is your stress relief strategy?” The answer would be motorcycle riding.
Do you get my point here? You experience a sense of relief after riding a motorcycle, which enhances your mental strength. Bike riding improves your mood and increases your energy levels at the same time. You don’t need an energy drink; you just need a dose of motorcycle riding.
Everyone dreams of riding a motorcycle in a lane, all alone. People who do it know how this practice helps them stay away from their real-life problems. In a nutshell, motorcycle riding helps your brain and ultimately improves your mental strength.
Calorie Burning
Remember the sweet sweat that covers your face while riding a motorcycle? Bike riding helps your metabolism by increasing insulin sensitivity. This fact results in calorie burning. It takes a lot of effort to ride a motorcycle. Not only just riding, but even when you are preparing to ride a motorcycle, you burn calories.
When you are riding a motorcycle, you face a headwind, what will you do? Try to manage the balance of the motorcycle and face the headwind. What will this practice require? Effort. What will be the result? Burning calories. Now you understand how motorcycle riding can help you burn calories.
Not only riding but even if you are a passenger riding on a sports bike, you can quickly burn up to 50 calories in a single ride. Comparatively, you burn a total amount of zero calories while driving a car.
What We Learned
This is about time to end the myths of motorcycle riding. Bike riding is not dangerous; it is good for your physical health. Use these five points as a reference to show the world how your passion can help you build muscles.
This article was written to dispel some of the negative myths from the critics of motorcycle riding. The word ‘dangerous’ is always associated with motorcycle riding. We can’t protest against this fact. However, motorcycle riding has its benefits as well. Ride your motorcycle with your head held high and improve your physical health at the same time.
I never took into account the fact that riding a motorcycle improves your knee strength by strengthening knee muscles. As far as I know about motorcycles is that wearing a helmet and gear protection can prevent serious injuries if an accident occurs. Thanks for the information about how wearing a helmet can improve your neck strength.
I like how you said that riding a motorcycle helps you to strengthen knee muscles because you have to learn how to hold yourself in place. My wife and I have been trying to think of fun ways to improve our health and it seems like motorcycle lessons might be the way to go. That way we can learn how to ride and get some of the physical benefits as well!
Although I think it would have been better if you elaborated more on the reason behind it, I still liked how you said that bike riding improves a person’s mood as well as increase their energy level. That’s actually the reason why I wanted to buy a motorcycle for myself next month. I frequently observe people who ride motorcycles, and I noticed how cheery they are despite riding under the harsh sun. I want to experience that kind of a good mood, so I’ll give it a try. Thank you.
I like how you said that for most people who own a motorcycle, riding it is a way to relieve stress. My husband has always wanted a motorcycle but I have never let him because we haven’t had the money. If it is something he could do to relieve stress than maybe it might be worth the investment!
My husband has been trying to convince me to learn to ride a motorcycle and I thought I would look up the reasons why I should. So thanks so much for letting me know that doing so can help increase your metabolism by increasing insulin activity. Since I definitely wouldn’t mind burning some calories through an increased metabolism, I will definitely start learning how to ride a motorcycle.
I really want to get a motorcycle because it just looks like it’d be so much fun to go so fast. It also sounds really good that riding one will make you keep your posture good thereby strengthening your stomach muscles. There doesn’t seem to really be any huge reason why I shouldn’t get one. I’ll be keeping an eye out for somewhere that has motorcycles for sale.