exercise bike

what about when its icy or pissing it down?
OP: you will know yourself when its time to stop but it depends realy on what your doing the excercise for. to loose fat, increse fitness, maintain fitness, etc.

Some people enjoy cycling in the comfort of their own home, especially those who are conscious of the way they look - exercising inside is a way of increasing fitness without damaging esteem to those that can be sensitive, especially those who are quite overweight. Also, not everybody lives in an area where there are good places to ride - in built up areas it would be hard to have a continuous cycle without stopping at traffic lights etc!

Have you ever tryed to cycle on an excersize bike in the summer? you dont have the air cooling you down because oyu are stationary, you overheat so much, i have used excersize bikes on a ahndfull of occasions, and i have also cycled regularly for 4 and half years and from my experince i can say i have never got a good work out on an excersize bike, and apart from the fact that it does not feel natural, i cycle for 2 and a half hours at a time sometimes even over 5 hours, but on an excersize bike, you would drive yourself crazy it is so boring.

Would you belive that once i even tryed to read a book whilst using an excersize bike!

Oh and i dont have any cool crash stories from excersize bikes to tell my freinds about

I second that lovelee-jublee. I have an exercise bike which i use regularly and really enjoy it. I find it is less expensive and inconvenient than trekking 10 miles to the local gym every time i want to use specialist equipment to work out. While i agree that experiencing the great outdoors whilst exercising is very important, i also think that feeling confident and safe is of equal importance.

I dont think you can argue about the benefit of cycleing for real, I can cycle 90km offroad in 5 hours 30min, i have a resting hear rate of 52bpm at best and despite the fact i do no regular running, i can run much longer distances then my freinds some of who have raced in the county ahtletics championships, simply due to my stamina from cycling.

I find it hard to belive that any of you excersize bike users could come any where close to this.

an EXERCISE bike is safer than riding outside because there aren't any risks of cars, buses etc.

To be honest with you, I couldn't give a monkeys what you can cycle, what your HR is, how much stamina you have, what you eat for breakfast, blah dee blah, and I don't really think anyone else does. Who gives a s**t?! The OP doesn't want to know how good you are, they wanted a training plan for an EXERCISE bike, not your life story, and certainly not to be told that they shouldn't use it. If they want to use their exercise bike, let them. It's a lot better than nothing for sure.

Cycling outside is extremly safe, in 4 and a half years iv had maybe 15 or more crahses (keep in mind i cycle offroad hence the seemingly high number) but the worst injury i got was an extremly bruised ankle that ment i could not walk for 2 days. If that is the worst that happened in 4 and a half years, i hardly consider that dangerous!

To be honest with you, I couldn't give a monkeys what you can cycle, what your HR is, how much stamina you have, what you eat for breakfast, blah dee blah, and I don't really think anyone else does. Who gives a s**t?! The OP doesn't want to know how good you are, they wanted a training plan for an EXERCISE bike, not your life story, and certainly not to be told that they shouldn't use it. If they want to use their exercise bike, let them. It's a lot better than nothing for sure.