Cycling in Egypt

Cycling guide

Cycling is one of the most accessible endurance sports today, and yet it’s also one of the best sports that can offer the most benefits in terms of personal, societal, and environmental benefits. Cycling is an endurance sport that may offer you the transformation you need.

Try the adventure and challenge cycling offers with this beginner’s guide from Sports Events Egypt.

Is Cycling Safe in Egypt?

Cycling is a safe activity, however, it still depends on the location you plan to cycle. If you’re constantly training in your local neighborhood or usual cycling area, then you should already be consistent in following the same rules, regulations, and safe cycling tips. But if you’re riding on a completely new road or location, know the road and plan your route.

In Egypt, biking on the road and near cars can be risky. In some areas there are, however, safe bike lanes, which were introduced in 2015. The best thing to fully experience the beauty and safety of cycling in Egypt is to join cycling clubs and organizations that organize group events. In a nutshell, cycling is safe health-wise; it’s the external factors that may pose risks and dangers. 

Cycling and Body Form

Cycling offers a lot of physical benefits to your body, if your aim is physical transformation. Cycling is a full-body workout that can improve your cardiovascular health and muscle growth. The focal points of cycling in the lower body are the glutes, quads, hamstrings, and calves. On the middle and upper body, the focal points are the biceps, triceps, and deltoids.

Cycling and Weight Loss

One of the most popular benefits of cycling is weight loss. Whether you cycle professionally or casually, you can surely achieve your body goals and reap other benefits.

“According to standard criteria used primarily for the assessment of clinical studies, the strength of this evidence was strong for fitness benefits, moderate for benefits in cardiovascular risk factors, and inconclusive for all-cause mortality, coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality, cancer risk, and overweight and obesity,” said a study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.

Cycling and Mental Health

According to scientists, cycling and walking can help release ‘feel-good’ hormones or endorphins and other factors that reduce anxiety and depression. A study published in the National Library of Medicine.

“Aerobic exercises, including jogging, swimming, cycling, walking, gardening, and dancing, have been proven to reduce anxiety and depression. These improvements in mood are proposed to be caused by exercise-induced increase in blood circulation to the brain and by an influence on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and, thus, on the physiologic reactivity to stress. This physiologic influence is probably mediated by the communication of the HPA axis with several regions of the brain, including the limbic system, which controls motivation and mood; the amygdala, which generates fear in response to stress; and the hippocampus, which plays an important part in memory formation as well as in mood and motivation,” explained the study.

What to Wear to Cycling

What you wear to cycling may depend on various external factors, such as the weather, level of difficulty, and duration of your cycling, as well as internal factors like your size and shape. Regardless of your needs and preference, you have a lot of options to choose from since there’s a huge range of cycling clothing out there.