Who benefits from each? Who should avoid each?įor example, cycling at a moderate pace tends to burn more calories than does walking at a moderate pace. However, be sure to choose the one that feels best for any injuries you have. Summaryīoth cycling and walking are lower impact activities and can be good to perform if you have injuries. They will help you choose the exercise that best suits your needs. Speak with a healthcare professional, such as a family doctor, if you want to start walking or cycling and have injuries or other health conditions. However, if you find the bent position of cycling more painful, walking may be a better alternative.
If you experience pain when you’re doing weight-bearing activities, such as walking, cycling may offer a more tolerable way to exercise. However, if you have other causes of joint pain, you might find one activity more comfortable than another ( 14). Thus, both can be good activities to perform for joint pain due to arthritis. Studies have shown that walking and cycling both helped people manage pain associated with knee osteoarthritis. However, a recent study in people with chronic low back pain showed that walking reduced pain, disability, and avoidance of activities ( 12, 13). Road cycling involves being in a flexed trunk posture for prolonged periods. However, that may depend on the injury.įor instance, one study reported a high incidence of low back pain in cyclists. Finding an activity that you can do to stay active when you’re injured is important. They can be debilitating and make it difficult for you to exercise. However, cycling tends to work your muscles harder.
SummaryĬycling and walking use many of the same muscles to produce force and movement. Thus, both activities work the same muscles, but cycling tends to require the muscles to exert more force. They are the muscles that propel you in the push phase of cycling and the push-off phase of walking (mid-stance to pre-swing phases) ( 7, 8). They are larger producers of force during the power or push-down phase of cycling when you’re sitting down ( 6).įinally, the calf muscles (soleus and gastrocnemius) play an important role in both cycling and walking. The quadriceps (knee extensors) are involved to a larger extent in cycling compared with walking. In addition, gluteal activation increases when you walk uphill or up stairs ( 4, 5). These muscles increase their activation when you increase your speed during cycling, especially when you stand up to pedal. The gluteal muscles of the hip and hamstrings are involved in power production in both walking and cycling. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Cycling and walking involve using many of the same muscles to produce force to move. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.
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