In honor of the Bike Walk Week, I thought I’d post some stuff this week about my commuting experience ever since my Buick broke down in March of 2009.
Earlier this week, I talked about the benefits of bike commuting when it comes to time and money. Today, I want to talk about one of my favorite benefits of biking to work: overall well-being, both physical and mental. This may be all intangible, but it still feels like the most compelling reason to become a bike commuter.
Fact: If you bike to work, beautiful young women will hand you water.
You can’t deny the physical benefits you’d receive by biking to work every day. We’re becoming more and more immobile as a society. Technological advances and global outsourcing have lead to less blue collar jobs that involved physical labor. Now our country’s economy is becoming more service and information oriented. That means everybody will be sitting at desk for 10 hours a day.
All of that sitting can’t be good for the long term health. And what does commuting by car get you? Another hour or two of sitting as you drive back and forth. If you bike to work, that gives you not one, but two good workouts every day without even thinking about it. And the best part about biking, is you can make your workout as light or intense as you want it. This makes it easy even if you aren’t in great shape. You can take a nice relaxing ride, or you can crank it up to the highest gear, pedal hard, and really get the blood pumping.
So start biking to work, get healthier, and feel better about yourself.
[...] 10, 2010 by chrisbrummund If you don’t care to bike for the money, time, or physical health benefits, then do it for own mental [...]