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Givingyour body the exercise it needs is one of the best things you can do to keep yourself healthy (and happy). According to the American Heart Association, you should be getting at least two and a half hours of exercise each week, which comes out to a little more than 20 minutes per day on average. But where should this exercise come from? Adopting a bike lifestyle is an exceptional answer.

Because of the electric power that these bikes harness, they are not only efficient for transportation, but they also can help anyone from dedicated cyclists to beginners improve their health and fitness. The electric power helps supplement your physical exertion so that there is no such thing as too much intensity, allowing you to pedal for much longer and travel much further distances.

Adopting a bike lifestyle is a small step that we can each take to collectively improve the health of our planet. The truth is that cars, trucks, and SUVs combine to produce three-quarters of all carbon monoxide pollution in the United States, according to the EPA. When it comes to total greenhouse gas emissions in America, the transportation sector produces more than 25%. It is hard to find silver linings from a pandemic that has killed millions of people worldwide, but the sudden shift to remote work gave us a glimpse into what a more eco-friendly future could look like. But is there a way to be more environmentally-friendly and still leave the house? The answer to this dilemma is electric bikes.

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The world is going electric, and now is the perfect time to get on board. If you are looking for a way to greatly improve your health and happiness (and your commute), then it is time to adopt a bike lifestyle. Once recognizing that bikes make life better, you will be on your path to increasing your social network, saving money, living healthier, and making the world more environmentally-friendly. At Himiway Bikes, we are passionate about helping people realize these benefits and offering perfect electric bike for adults.With an exceptional selection of electric bikes, we surely have a bike that will fit your lifestyle and put you on the path toward living healthier and happier for years to come.

Regular movement is good for your lungs because it increases the strength of the muscles around your lungs and the rest of your body. As you build strength, your muscles need less oxygen to work. This means you will be able to breathe more easily when you're active.

If you avoid activities that make you breathless, your muscles become weaker. Weaker muscles need more oxygen to work. Over time you feel more and more breathless. This is called the cycle of inactivity, or the cycle of breathlessness.

The good news is that you can break this cycle of inactivity. By becoming more active you can make your muscles stronger, including your breathing muscles. This will help you feel less out of breath when you do everyday tasks.

You can choose to be active in lots of different ways. You could start walking more, take part in group activity, or ask your GP about pulmonary rehabilitation. You can also be more active by making small changes to your daily habits. The main thing is to choose activities you enjoy at the right level for you.

You could track your steps with tools like a smartphone, smartwatch, or pedometer. Even walking 1,000 more steps a day can help you improve your fitness.

Set yourself goals with achievable steps. When you reach your goals, you can continue to set yourself new goals. Our Keep Active handbook includes resources to help you set goals and track your progress over time.

Activities like gardening can also get your heart rate up. Weeding, digging or mowing the lawn can improve your breathing and overall fitness. If you find pollen and mould trigger your symptoms, you could take an antihistamine and wear a mask when gardening.

If you have problems getting out of chairs or are worried about falls, try to strengthen the muscles around your hips and thighs. Climbing stairs and using an exercise bike can help strengthen these muscles.

Improving your balance and flexibility will help you to manage aches and pains and improve your posture. Along with strength training, it can also help to reduce the risk of falls in older people. Try to include balance and flexibility activities at least twice a week.

I have recently been diagnosed and have been offered the choice between radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy. I am currently inclined to choose radiation. My understanding is that this will involve 3 months of hormone therapy followed by a month of radiation.

I have been cycling all the time with my Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastases. I was even doing Time Trials during my Chemotherapy, wasn't doing any PB's but I was out there having a great time even though my body was wrecked...........Due to Hormone Treatment my Testosterone like everybody's is non-existent and my hemoglobin levels are below minimum. During training on the road while having chemo I was pushing as hard as I could and my muscles just crapped up on several occasions and had to be rescued by my wife.............I have even done 2 training camps in Tenerife and did a ride in Corsica where we covered 1000km with over 15,000m of climbing in 6 days.................raised a load of money for Maggies in Nottingham.I use an ISM saddle on all my bikes now, which is split down the nose middle and offers some protection to the prostate, but have to admit after 5 hours in the saddle it is all numb down there.Over the last 3 years I have been using "The Sufferfest" and their training plans and have increased my Physical fitness and endurance massively. I have been getting as fit as I can for my next treatment coming up in a weeks time. So in January alone I managed over 600km on my turbo trainer in the "Pain Cave"For me physical health, mental health and diet are not negotiable and have helped me stay active and live with incurable cancer since June 2013............So keep on cycling and exercise, even through the worst times............... User Posted 20 Mar 2021 at 20:10 Hi James, I am amazed at the amount of exercise some of these lot get up. You'll find posts from "irun" on here who does lots of marathons. I'm even beginning to think the exercise might be keeping the cancer at bay for some of them. Are you on HT?

I have the Hydrogel spacer. I was told not to ride the bike (even stationary) for three months. I can do everything else, gym, walk, run, etc but the fear is the pressure on the perineum puts pressure on the prostate and the gel might shift, rendering it less useful for the job it needs to do.

Your cycling will stand you in very good stead and you should keep it up. I always say to regard exercise as mandatory when on hormone therapy - it has a beneficial impact on several of the side effects. You should also add some exercise to stress/shock bones, which cycling doesn't do.

I did buy myself a noseless saddle, although being noseless wasn't the main property of it, it was having a hole under the perineum and making sure you are sitting on your sit bones (pelvis) and not your perineum.

Both the hormone therapy and the radiotherapy will tend to reduce your hemoglobin level, but as a cyclist, you will have plenty in reserve, and you may not notice (unless you're racing or time trialing). Those without much in reserve get very fatigued at the end of radiotherapy. There's no research to show why this is, but I strongly suspect it's because their hemoglobin levels dropped below normal at that point.

You describe neoadjuvant hormone therapy (before treatment) which is usually 3-6 months, and concurrent hormone therapy (during treatment). However, it usually continues after radiotherapy (adjuvant hormone therapy), to make up a total of 1-3 years hormone therapy. You will need to exercise to maintain muscle (for which cycling is good), and to maintain bone calcium (which needs an exercise which stresses/shocks bones).

We have had people who have prostatectomy who have been back in the saddle after as little as six weeks though I think six months is the more common advice. I guess if there were complications from prostatectomy it could curtail the cycling. If the medics are saying radiotherapy has as good or better chance of curing your cancer than surgery, then considering the potential side effects radiotherapy with hormones is probably the best choice for you.

The only place I've seen six months mentioned is on these forums. Having a vested interest in the subject, I researched it last year while I was in my post-op walking period. The standard prostatectomy discharge instructions from Oxford state "no cycling or horseriding for 6 weeks".

Santis Healthcare says you can start cycling after 6 weeks if you have a perineal cutout on your saddle.

I think the important thing is to take advice from your own doctors, based on your own circumstances. I started riding after 6 weeks and ramped up gradually over a month. No continence or erectile issues here.

Incidentally, one of the reasons I chose surgery (apart from being strongly advised it was likely the best route due to my age (50)) was that I hated the idea of hormones having a negative impact on my fitness. (It was also why I declined bicalutamide when surgery was delayed "indefinitely" due to COVID. That turned out to be about 2 months delay.)

I now find them really comfortable, although I don't need them anymore, I've left them on both bikes. I like that I'm sitting only on my sit bones (pelvis) and not any sensitive structures. I wasn't expecting them to last long, but after nearly 2 years, they both still look brand new.

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