You may get tired of hearing this from us, but we want to make sure all of our readers understand the importance of cardio and that it is crucial to any type of fitness regimen, no matter what your goal may be. Cardio workouts include any workout that gets your heart rate pumped, this can be any treadmill, elliptical or exercise bike workout.

Now we do talk often about our love of elliptical trainers and treadmills, while I know we don’t talk too much about exercise bikes, but this is not because we are not big fans. We apologize for our lack of including exercise bikes, also called stationary bikes, in our posts because they should not be ignored; and in fact stationary bikes do in-deed provide you with an excellent cardio benefits.

Unfortunately stationary bikes often get a bad rap due to the fact they are not providing as much movement as elliptical trainers and treadmills offer. While it is true you do not move your whole body as much on a stationary bike and you may burn more calories per hour when using an elliptical or treadmill, stationary bikes can still provide a very beneficial cardio workout.

FitSugar.com shares their Pros and Cons of the Stationary Bike, which you can read more about here. We’d thought we would share a few of our favorite pros from their list and a few of our own to show you just what we mean when we say stationary bikes provide a great cardio workout: [Read more…]