Once you’ve made a decision to be a mountain biker, you made a decision that makes you healthier and improve your intellectual approach to daily life. They’re fun too. Below are some benefits you can expect to get from mountain biking.

You will have better cardiovascular health. Your heart is a muscle and becomes stronger and more proficient as you work out. As you increase your fitness, your resting heart rate will drop ten to twenty beats per minute and become a better pump, circulating additional blood per beat. Inactive people’s resting heart rates are usually 70–80 beats per minute while endurance athletes’ resting rates hover in the 50s or low 60s. Exercise lowers cholesterol and reduces blood pressure, too.

Reduced body fat means greater muscle mass. Endurance exercise burns calories at a notable rate. For example, a five-kilometer mountain bike ride can burn 500-600 calories, while a 30-kilometer classic bike ride at a moderate pace burns about 900. After you have exercised, your body continues to burn calories at a higher rate. That means you’re burning more calories than normal for quite a few hours after a workout. Exercise builds muscle mass too and the more muscle you have the more calories you burn all through the day. It’s quite familiar for people beginning an endurance sport to lose weight rapidly in the first month or two as surplus body fat melts away. Then weight loss slows and eventually stops.

A regular routine of daily exercise strengthens the immune system, making you less defenseless to illnesses like colds and flu. There’s proof that it also protects against more hazardous health problems like cancer. You will have extra energy for daily tasks. If you feel tired and listless during the day, it’s hard to imagine that performing more work in the form of daily exercise can make you feel more energetic. But it’s true— mountain biking will add vitality to your whole day.

In a study it showed that moderate endurance activity increases feelings of vigor while reducing apathy and aggression. Running and walking have been used successfully to treat mild depression. There’s nothing like getting out in the fresh air and sunshine for a brisk ride to clear the old brain out, and let in some bodily pleasure.