What Cycling Fitness Is About

I want to welcome my readers to Cycling Fitness.  This will be a blog about, well, cycling fitness or getting fit by riding a bicycle.  I have given a brief description about what I intend to write about at the top of the page, but I'm going to expand on it a little more.  I hope that you will enjoy reading this and continue to come back for updates.

Where I See the Blog Going

My intentions are to keep you updated on my progress of getting fit by logging miles on a bicycle.  This is a bicycle which I have not bought yet.  Therefore, you will get to go through the process, with me, of searching a choosing the right bike for my needs.  Hopefully this will be helpful to many of you who are going through the same process or may in the future.  I am on a tight budget as many of us are in the current economic situation therefore, you will be able to see that you don't need a $10,000 bicycle to go cycling.  I also plan to give basic reviews of bikes and their features.  I would like to also eventually go over other fitness areas other than just cycling because the upper body isn't exercised when cycling.  Nutrition also plays a role in cycling for fitness, therefore I will try to share diet tips and nutritional supplement information along the way too.

How This All Got Started

Well obviously I'm not where I want to be in terms of fitness.  My body mass index (BMI) has recently gotten high enough that I'm now medically considered to be overweight.  I feel worse from day to day than I have ever felt in my life.  I was athletic in high school and haven't really exercised at all in the past 12 years.  I started thinking back toward spring that I needed to do something.  I thought about walking and happened to catch an article in the local newspaper about a place that has hiking trails.  Guess what else they have, mountain bike trails.  At that point I started thinking about how good my fitness was at about age 14 when I used my mountain bike every day.  This led me to research other trails in the area and bikes which I plan to elaborate on in the next article.

What You Can Expect

I'm going to take you through the process I went through in researching bikes, where to find them, and which bike is right for you and your budget.  I also want to keep a log on the amount of miles that I ride and how much weight I lose along the way.  I hope this provides invaluable information for you and inspires you to get healthy whether it is through cycling fitness or another means of your choice.