Cycling

Cycling is a highly aerobic exercise, and has a lot of health benefits associated with it. Aside from increasing your strength and stamina, cycling improves your joint mobility, posture, bone density, and can decrease body fat!

In addition, cycling is lower-impact than other aerobic activities such as running, meaning that it is less likely that you will develop a joint or tendon injury, even if you're biking a lot. Cycling also reduces anxiety and depression, and is considered an excellent exercise for people trying to get in shape.24

There are some general rules that all cyclists should follow, called the "rules of the road." These rules are unofficial, but are considered proper etiquette. Failing to follow these rules can result not just in other people thinking you have bad manners, but can actually be dangerous.

The main rules are to be predictable and be as safe as possible. This means to be prepared before you go out to ride (make sure that your brakes, gears and other equipment work) and to act in obvious ways that other people on the road can know what you're doing, like using proper hand signals when turning.

Other rules include riding on the same side of the road as car traffic, and staying close to the shoulder when possible. Cyclists are also expected to obey all laws of traffic, like stopping at Red Lights and yielding to oncoming traffic.

Competitive cyclists have many names, including:

• Biker
• Cyclist/bicyclist
• Rider
• Racer

There are a few different types of cycling. The three main ones are road, off-road, and track cycling. They all occur on different surfaces and have unique distances and rules.