Summer is coming! Are you carrying a few pounds you would like to get rid of before the beach or that vacation? Indoor cycling is a great way of burning calories and helping you cut that unwanted weight.

There is a lot of advice out there, some very good, but also some real myths! There are also a huge number of diet supplements and pills, promising to reduce your weight without exercising or changing your diet.

Let’s just look at the basics of why we put on weight in the first place. Pretty simple really – we eat more than we need and the body stores the extra calories as fat. So logically the solution should be equally simple! Exercise more and/or eat less, right?

Yes, but most people don’t know how many calories they eat or burn each day. And only realize the ratio is out of balance when they start to put on the pounds! How many calories are there in a cheese burger? How many calories will an hour of indoor cycling burn? You can track exact numbers if you want to and there are some great software programs, My Plate etc, which will tell you calories for each food item and type of exercise.

Or you can take a less analytical approach, just by making some healthy lifestyle changes. Let’s look at exercise first.

1) Indoor Cycling is Great Cardio!

Remember the “fat burning zone”? Work out at lower heart rates or intensity and your body will burn more fat, not carbohydrates – it doesn’t work! Ride a stationary bike in this zone and you may only burn a few hundred calories in an hour. Push yourself and indoor cycling can burn anything up to 1,000 calories in the same time! Very important if you only have limited time to exercise! Incidentally you will burn more calories on our stationary bike, due to the movement and upper body workout.

2) Build Muscle

Incorporate some exercise which will build muscle and your body will burn more calories. You don’t need to worry about bulking up, but do enough so that you start to see good muscle tone. Just using heavier resistance during indoor cycling classes will help to build up your leg muscles. Again the RealRyder bike will also work your upper body and core muscles.

3) Train Regularly

Also look at little lifestyle changes which all add up. Take the stairs, walk the dog more, take your bike, not the car – those type of things.

Next look at your Diet

What are you eating? If it made you fat you need to change something!

1) Cut down or cut out the “junk calories” heavily processed foods that have limited nutritional value, but are high in fat, sugar and processed carbs.
2) Eat more fresh vegetables and fruit
3) Eat more chicken and fish
4) Eat good carbs and fats (brown rice not white, olive oil not butter)
5) Try and spread your food out more. Instead of 3 meals a day, try 5 (smaller meals!)
6) Don’t eat late at night!
7) Drink more water (not soda of fruit juice!)

You don’t need to starve yourself or become a slave to the weighing scales just make good healthy choices and hit those indoor cycling classes as often as you can and watch your weight come down!

Two last points, we talk about how the RealRyder burns more calories due to the full body workout, look out for more on this shortly! Also if you want proof that using indoor cycling for weight loss works read the full story of Elise who lost over 50 lbs riding our stationary bike at B-East!

Indoor cycling is a great way to lose weight and as proved by Elise Marmon the RealRyder stationary bike is the ideal tool for anyone who is serious about weight loss. The movement of the bike creates a much more active ride and by recruiting the upper body and core muscles it is possible to burn up to 1,000 calories per hour, approximately 30% more than on a conventional stationary bike.

Elise has set a very high standard (she has lost over 50 lbs since last fall!), but now we are interested in finding the next “Elise” someone who is equally serious about weight loss and prepared to put in the hard work to achieve their target weight. One other thing we should tell you is we are looking for someone who can lose 100 lbs!

It needs to be done using a RealRyder and by natural means i.e. diet and exercise only (no surgical procedures). So if you or someone you know is committed to losing 100 lbs please let us know.

Contact: Jackie@RealRyder.com

This is a serious challenge, but also a great opportunity for anyone who really wants to get in shape and lose the weight. Are you up for the challenge? Are you prepared to put in the hours on our stationary bike to get lean? We would love to hear from you if you are!

This could be you leaning over a Stationary Bike!

We only wrote about Elise Marmon yesterday and how she had lost 50 pounds using indoor cycling combined with a healthy diet, but we have to update the story already! We already knew that Elise was a big fan of the RealRyder stationary bike which uses more muscles and will burn more calories than a regular spinning bike. And certainly Elise has proved beyond any doubt that significant weight loss is possible by losing 5o pounds in only 6 months!

To recap, Elise started indoor cycling at the B-East RealRyder Fitness Studio in Amagansett, NY in October 2009. She started out hesitant and a little nervous, but stuck to the program with the encouragement of B-East and by Spring was doing 3 indoor cycling classes back to back! 

The petite new Elise is a more confident, happy, healthy person as well as being over 50 pounds lighter!

What we didn’t know is how much of a fan Elise has become of our stationary bike. Jackie (RealRyder’s Brand Manager) spoke with Elise on the phone while she was driving from NY to Connecticut on a business trip and they had the following exchange:

Elise: “Is there a web site that I can go onto that lists all the RealRyder studios in every state?”

Jackie: “Why yes! RealRyder.com…” (told her about the new location finder)

Elise: “Oh good! I need to keep my workouts going while I’m traveling and I feel like I’m in the dark ages when I go back on those other bikes.”

Let the people be heard… the other bikes feel like “the dark ages.”!
You can follow the full story of  Elise and her journey on a stationary bike on B-East’s Facebook Wall.

So if you are looking to lose some weight, don’t wait! Sign up for a RealRyder indoor cycling class now and remember to check the “Location Finder” link for your nearest studio. You don’t want get stuck in the dark ages, after all it’s 2010 and there is a new stationary bike in town!

Lose weight and feel great! Indoor cycling combined with a healthy diet is a great way to achieve this. Doing these workouts on a RealRyder stationary bike uses more muscles and will burn even more calories to speed up your weight loss.

Indoor cycling is a great way to lose weight and this is a theme we will be coming back to regularly, but before we get into all the analytical stuff I wanted to share with you a great success story. This was sent to us by B-East a very successful RealRyder Fitness Studio in Amagansett NY.

Let B-East tell you the moving story of Elise Marmon’s amazing weight loss!

The endorphins rush you get at the end of your workout is great, the sense of accomplishment you get having pushed yourself through yet another challenging workout feels soooo good but when you set a goal for yourself and reach that goal….there is nothing that can match that feeling, that incredible buzz!

Elise Marmon started indoor cycling at B-East in October 2009.

She started out as we all do, hesitant, tired and wondering how long it would take until her butt didn’t hurt after every class…..but as time went by, as she became stronger, as pounds came off, as she became more confident about herself and what she was capable of doing, she kept setting more challenging goals for herself. These are the ”before and after” weight loss pictures of Elise!

Presently, Elise has lost just over 50 pounds! Was it easy? C’mon….of course not! Was it fun? Sometimes there were smiles…well, most of the time it really was fun actually. Was it worth it? ABSOLUTELY, every single sweaty second of it!

Last week, Elise challenged herself to sign up for and complete three indoor cycling classes in a row (that is 135 minutes by the way!) and she did it!! And then took a three mile walk on the beach.

For Elise, that first indoor cycling class last fall was her first step on a journey to a whole new lifestyle. Her new healthy self has opened her eyes and helped her to become the confident, happy, healthy person she was meant to be.

You can follow Elise and her journey on a stationary bike on B-East’s Facebook Wall. There are weekly updates with Elise’s latest and greatest accomplishments as she works to lose her last 20 pounds.

We love this story here, great job Elise! So if you are looking to lose some weight, don’t wait! Sign up for a RealRyder indoor cycling class now!