Cycling Workout to Improve Your Cycling Speed

When you want to improve your cycling speed, one of the areas that you will want to consider is building your leg muscles to be more stronger. This is because it is your leg muscles that will help you to pedal faster and the more times you pedal the further you will go. The cyclist with the strongest leg muscles in a race is the one who usually wins, if other factors are not factored in. The following cycling workout will help you to improve your leg muscles' strength overtime and hence enabling you to ride faster and further.

The main focus is your leg muscles and hence this bike workout will focus on that primarily. This bike workout involve doing a series of jumps. The frequent jumping will help to exercise your leg muscles making them more stronger over time. There are various jumps that you can do to accomplish this, but all you need to do is choose one to begin with and practice regularly.

One of the ways to jump, is by jumping up and down onto a step of, for example, a staircase. Make sure you jump from the lowest step of the staircase to the flat floor and not at the step at the top of the staircase. This is so as to prevent any injury. Do several reps like 10-20 regularly. This is an easy bike workout and you can incorporate it into any of your other exercises. the more regularly you do this the better the results.

Another way you can do this is by doing squats. Squats are usually energy intensive, but they do stretch your muscles effectively. You can start with 5 squats at first, if you feel they are to difficult and increase them gradually overtime. In my opinion, I believe they are the most effective training to strengthen your leg muscles.
Jumping over a rope, back and forth, can also really help to build your leg muscles. However, make sure the rope is lowly positioned. Don't put it too high, as you could easily trip and hurt yourself. You can use a box, a rock as long as it is something that you can hop over, the jumping motion is what is important. 10 reps to start with is okay, and you should increase that as you get more comfortable.

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