exercise bike

A HOSPITAL is putting static exercise bikes next to patients' beds to help them recover from injury and illness as quickly as possible.

Now, of course, exercise bikes are a staple in every gym, and spin classes are big business.

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Exercise bikes are a great option to increase stamina and are among the main fitness equipment in cardio fitness regimes.

Exercise bikes, they said, were the most useful because you could hang clothes on them in the spare bedroom.

Some 30 schools nationwide have traded desks for exercise bikes in some classrooms to keep students more active while reading.

Researchers at Abertay University in Dundee say that three 60-second sessions of very short, intense sprints on exercise bikes improved the fitness of people studied in an experiment by more than 10 per cent in two weeks.

The team held an endurance challenge for a gruelling seven hours with more than 20 members of staff taking turns on exercise bikes and a cross trainer at the hotel in aid of Latch.

Summary: Prisoners in Brazil are trying to shorten their sentences by pedalling on exercise bikes to generate electricity.

About 79 participants completed initial evaluations and training, and rode identical recumbent exercise bikes except the experimental bike was equipped with a virtual reality display.

But the gym is working with a Texas-based company, Henry Works, on a system to directly power the gym's lights and equipment, as well as a device that will connect several exercise bikes to a single generator.

The researchers started with exercise bikes that had been equipped with electrodes that stimulate a patient's muscles to pedal.