The Benefits of Exercise
Exercise helps reduce your risk of getting any of a handful of diseases and, more
importantly, of early death. You'll also feel better, perform better, sleep better and be
more at peace with yourself and the world. Just look at the numerous health benefits
that regular use of an Xdream may help you gain…
Exercise is good for your heart
The heart is a muscle. Like other muscles, its performance improves when it is
regularly challenged by exercise. The heart responds by becoming stronger and more
efficient. That's why athletes have slow heart rates, around 60 beats per minute.
Exercise is good for your arteries and veins
Exercise reduces the amount of harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and
fats in your blood. It increases the flexibility of the walls of blood vessels, thus
reversing hardening of the arteries (known as atherosclerosis). This helps to lower
blood pressure. There is even evidence that regular exercise helps evacuate LDL
cholesterol and other constituents of the plaque that accumulate on the inner
surfaces of blood vessels. This plaque is what clogs arteries, cuts off blood flow, and
is a major cause of heart attack and stroke.
Exercise is good for your lungs
Working harder increases the lungs' capacity to move air in and out. As a result,
more oxygen is drawn into the body and more carbon dioxide and other waste gases
are expelled. Regular exercise helps prevent the decline in oxygen uptake that occurs
naturally with aging and as a result of inactivity. But remember, when you stop
exercising, you lose all improvements in the functioning of your lungs in as few as
three months.
Exercise is good for diabetics
By helping muscles to take up glucose from the bloodstream and use it for energy,
exercise prevents sugar from accumulating in the blood. By burning calories, exercise
helps control weight, an important factor in the management of type 2 diabetes.
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Interval training
The trails available on the Xdream are based on the same method of interval training
used by elite endurance athletes. Each trail has been designed and professionally
structured to provide a total body interval based workout session. Artificial
Intelligence riders provide intelligent pace setting for each individual based on the
individual’s unique level of fitness and performance.
This form of fitness training has a powerful effect on cardiovascular or aerobic fitness
– so crucial to good health and the prevention of many illnesses and diseases such
as coronary artery disease. Interval training is also a very powerful means of reducing
body fat levels as it results in higher calorie consumption both during the exercise
and also after as your body generates additional heat and goes through an energy
demanding recovery process.
The Xdream is compatible with Polar heart rate monitors and your heart rate will be
shown on the race screen and will be recorded in the session data of each race.
‘Core’ Stability
Due to the fact that handlebars on an Xdream move and the pedal system utilises a
freewheel, your stability on the bike is maintained by the muscles of the lower back
and pelvic area rather than the arms, shoulders, and legs. Therefore while
undertaking an Xdream ride you will be training these muscles that are so crucial to
the health of the lower back and stability for most sports activities.
Total Body Workout – Muscle Usage
Total upper and lower body extremity muscle groups with focus on core muscle
engagement of the Abdominals and Obliques. Upper body Deltoids, Trapezius,
Latissimus Dorsi, Biceps, Triceps, Forearm Flexors, Extensors, and the lower
extremity Quadriceps, Hamstrings, Gastrocnemius, Soleus and Gluteal muscle
groups.
Essential Fitness Elements of the Xdream