Enhances Flexibility. Longboarding enables you to burn about 8 calories every minute. It helps in making the body flexible. Having a flexible body will also help in reducing getting injured on and off the longboard. As it is, most people do not look at the flexible part of an exercise. Whereas, being able to flex the muscle, core and stretch is significant in longboarding. Through longboarding, your body gets to develop this flexibility. Improve Balance.
Improved balance is one major benefit in longboarding. This also helps in having a well-spread coordination. Having a good balance only show that one is healthy and well fit.
If you have trouble balancing and staying on one foot, this can be corrected with longboarding. Enhance Sound Sleep. Sound sleep is very important for a good health and general wellbeing. Longboarding helps to enhance this. After stretching the muscle during longboarding, relaxation is next. If you have been unable to sleep soundly, it is time to give longboarding a try and see the difference in your sleeping order.
Refreshes the mind and Relief Stress. A good mind makes every other thing to be good or appear good. Longboarding is one of those sports that give pleasures.
It refreshes the mind, it provides the actual refreshment of mind and this is needed on a daily basis. A dose of this keeps you well all day. More so, longboarding is one those sports that is good for relieving stress. It helps in keeping the mind off unnecessary things and gives the opportunity to be in-charge of yourself. Improves Critical Thinking and Sense. Longboarding enables longboarders to stay conscious of the road and be aware of the things around him or her.
But skateboarding is also a good exercise because of:. Yes, of course! How many you burn depends on your skill level and how much time you spend skateboarding each day. Just riding a skateboard and pushing off is less intense than riding a mini ramp or performing tricks on the street.
Also depending on your wheels and bearings, you might burn more or fewer calories. Hard wheels and bad bearings will force you to push more often while soft wheels and smooth bearings will cost you less energy. Riding a longboard is also less of an exercise than a classic freestyle board. Longboards have large soft wheels where a normal skateboard has smaller and harder wheels.
Skateboarding is comparable interval training. When you skate a mini ramp or a bowl, this becomes more obvious. Soon you start to feel your legs burn and your heart pounding. Even if you can last that long, you probably mess up a trick anyway.
According to research by Harvard Medical school , People who weigh , and pounds will burn , and calories, during a 1-hour skateboarding session. Now, this may be less effective than running or cycling, it sure is a fun way of burning calories. If you skateboard 5 hours a week, depending on your weight you can burn between and calories each week. Eating fast food and exercise is worse than consuming healthy food and no exercise. I suspect this data is about moderate skateboarding, meaning just pushing your deck.
Transition skateboarding probably doubles the amount of burned calories compared to the research provided. Ballpark estimate here, but if you skate 2 hours a day aggressively and cut down on food and sugar you can probably lose 2. As I expected, skateboarding is intense. I burned about calories in just 15 minutes. I kept going and only took a couple of seconds to breathe as you can see in the heart rate graph. I just skated mini ramp doing basic tricks, jumping off my board and running back up again.
It was a terrible day, to be honest. A complete off day and nothing worked. In order to lose weight, you really need to push it to the max. Push yourself and keep at it for at least one hour. You might feel terrible at first, but this will pass in a week or so. Take a day off every now and then, to let your sore muscles heal and get back at it. If you look at my data, skateboarding is close to running so I decided to skateboard more and run less.
Your heart starts pumping your blood around but moderate skateboarding is not a cardiovascular workout. I recently went on a MTB ride with a friend who mainly skateboards.
Since a couple of months I started skating bowl and this is quite a workout. You need to maintain balance at all time and push hard to maintain speed. Also, longboards have different standards than regular skateboards.
If you just want to ride, I would advise a longboard or a beefy cruiser like the Landyachtz Tugboat or the Arbor Oso. These board can handle heavy riders well and offer a very smooth ride. The Tugboat is a bit more aggressive and the Arbor Oso provies a calm and relaxing ride. There was little learning curve and no weight of expectation. Skateboards, by contrast, are smaller, hardy, stiff, faster and built to be tested and messed up on. I memorized hills I liked going down. I learned how to approach an impediment in the road, like a stick or pebble, then dance away with a twist of my hips at the last second.
I bought three more boards. I tried them out all over Brooklyn. I learned to rely on longboarding as a mindless passage of time, a chance to move throughout the world without needing to do so, or needing anywhere to be, kind of like an anti-commute.
When I began to read more about alternative meditation techniques, and the concept of everyday mindfulness, I thought almost immediately about my time-slowing Or speeding, maybe? I can never really tell sessions on my longboard. A consistent cardio routine means a longer life, and importantly, more high-quality years as that life plays out. Cardio lowers your blood pressure and cholesterol. It reduces risk of osteoporosis. It strengthens the lungs.
It helps you fall asleep. It facilitates blood flow, which improves mood and boosts productivity whatever that word may mean for you. The American Heart Association recommends at least 30 minutes of moderate aerobic activity at least five days a week. Many hear that and choose to count steps. This publication would be the first to recommend a daily walk.
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