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  • Anivia@feddit.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldnice sign
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    6 days ago

    if you let your body adjust to daily riding your resting energy use will go down

    No, that’s just a lie. The only way you’re gonna significantly reduce your BMR from daily bike riding is if you were a fatty and lost weight due to it, but a diet would accomplish the same job. If an untrained person starts commuting daily with their bike the exact opposite will happen, they will grow more muscles in their calves and quads, which will significantly increase the amount of calories they passively burn, and that’s on top of the energy you burn while riding the bicycle.

    You don’t need to make up bullshit to justify commuting with a bicycle, it will absolutely increase the amount of calories you will need to eat, but that’s a low price to pay for the money you save not commuting with a car, let alone the health benefits



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    7 days ago

    Yeah, ebikes are significantly more economical and ecological. The human body is very inefficient at converting calories into kinetic energy, and producing 1kcal of food has a much worse CO2 output than even burning 1kcal worth of coal. Even if you follow a vegan diet

    It still beats driving a car by a long shot though