Get on Your Bike! Stay safe, get fit and be happy cycling
Ebook
Overview
This book isn’t like other cycling books.
It’s not designed to help you shave seconds off your time trial, help you corner like a pro, or eat like an Olympic athlete. It’s not trying to get you into racing, nor make you the next Tour de France rider
What it will do is show you how to choose the right bike, what to wear, how to cycle safely so that you will feel confident making cycling part of your everyday life and how to keep your bike going. But as well as this, you will learn how to use the bike as a fitness and wellness tool – to make you slimmer, fitter, healthier and altogether happier.
You’ll feel better about yourself and have more energy throughout the day, increase your productivity, happiness and reduce stress.
A complete guide to incorporating cycling into your life and making the most of the many benefits to health, fitness and yes, happiness that it can give you.
How incorporating cycling into your life can give you real life-long benefits.
Promotes the idea of cycling as a route to long-term health and happiness.
Contains advice from experts and the most up-to-date studies.
Packed with inspiring case studies from real-life individuals who have changed their lives through cycling.
Foreword by James Golding
1 Why cycle?
2 Where to start
3 Gear
4 Pedals and bike set-up
5 Getting going
6 Cycling safety
7 Bike maintenance
8 Ride to work
9 Weight loss
10 A healthy mind and body
11 Mindfulness
12 Challenge and learning
13 Health and immunity
14 Bounce back
15 Relationships
Resources
Acknowledgements
...the perfect present for your nearest and dearest...a great tool for selling the benefits of bike riding.
- Title: Get on Your Bike! Stay safe, get fit and be happy cycling
- Authors: Rebecca Charlton, Robert Hicks, Hannah Reynolds
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472904058, 9781472904041, 1472904044, 1472904052
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472904058
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:03:39Z
Hannah Reynolds has been editor of the Fitness section of Cycling Weekly magazine for over 10 years. In 2006 she launched Health and Fitness for Cyclists (now Cycling Fitness), a quarterly training manual that includes training plans and nutrition, training and technique advice.
Robert Hicks has spent the last four years working as a health and fitness writer for Cycling Weekly, Cycling Fitness and Cycling Active covering topics from riding techniques, to nutrition, psychology and physiology. He cycles for the enjoyment of it, regularly attending sportives throughout the summer.
Rebecca Charlton has worked as a cycling journalist in online, print and broadcast media for eight years. She is Assistant Editor on Cycling Active magazine also writing fitness, features, news and technical articles for Cycling Weekly, Cycling Active and Cycling Fitness magazines.
They are the authors of Fitter, Further, Faster published by Bloomsbury in spring 2013.