No Strain Health Benefits

Physical activity is essential to aging well. Not only does it help us manage our weight, keep our heart healthy, strengthen muscles and keep our joints limber – it also improves our mental wellbeing. However, high-impact activities like jogging or even walking long distances can become challenging, uncomfortable or injurious.

Ebikes offer us a low-impact gentle form of exercise that is easy on our hips and knees but still offers significant health benefits. Cardiovascular fitness, leg strength and overall endurance will all improve. The magic of the electric pedal assist on an Ebike is the ability to select the level of assistance that makes the pedaling as effortless as we need. And we can increase and decrease the level of assistance on the fly, allowing us to ride longer and further than we ever could dream of on a traditional bike.

Could we accomplish similar physical activity on a machine like an elliptical or stationary bike at the gym? Sure – but that’s a boring chore! Ebikes allow us to incorporate our physical activity with our everyday life and our social activities. We ride to the store instead of driving, we take an Ebike ride in the park instead of watching TV, we just naturally find ourselves using our Ebikes for everyday activities that are fun and enjoyable, and let that treadmill continue to hold our laundry.

Mobility and Independence

Many of us fear losing the independence that personal mobility gives us. If we can’t move freely, visit friends and family, or even run errands on our own, our quality of life significantly suffers. The practical solution to this is our new Ebike. When we incorporate an electric bicycle into our daily lives now, we gain the tool necessary to keep our bodies mobile. Being comfortable and easy to use, we select an Ebike with a step-through frame design that makes getting on and off the bike easy. We choose a model of Ebike that has a rack and a basket for carrying things. And if we're worried about stability, we can choose an Electric Tricycle. Because of the ease of riding and the ability to carry items, we find ourselves using our Ebike nearly every day. Instead of one big monthly car trip to the big-box supercenter, we find ourselves joyful riding our Ebike to the small grocer nearby a couple times a week and selecting fresher foods. Instead of driving to the mall for dinner at a chain restaurant, we ride our Ebikes to that new brew-pub that opened in the old factory building downtown. We hop on our Ebike for a leisurely ride to the ice cream shop after dinner, a few mornings a week we ride up to the local café and meet some friends for our regular coffee clutch. We do all these little fun things we enjoy that just so happen to incorporate the right amount of light physical activity that keeps us healthy and mobile for the long term.

Engaging Social Activity

We all know how important maintaining an active social life is. Connection to people is good for so many aspects of our lives, top of which is our mental and emotional health. Bicycle riding has often been a great social activity (remember being a kid, and we rode bikes together everywhere). Ebikes open up these opportunities once again. Meet-up groups of Ebike riders have formed all over the country so there’s group ride events near us. We can ride our Ebike with people of all fitness levels, because our Ebike allow us to keep up. Even if we don’t have any Ebike friends (yet), we can ride our Ebikes to visit with neighbors, go to the local farmers markets, festivals and arts and craft fairs. We find multitudes of ways to expand our social life with the new-found assistance of our electric bicycle.

Conclusion: We invest in our future when we invest in an Ebike

Investing in an electric bicycle is an investment in our health, mobility, independence, and overall quality of life. It’s a joyful way to stay active, explore places we never would have before and maintain our active lifestyles well into our golden years. Ebikes are a practical, joyful and empowering option for everyone looking to enhance their mobility - regardless of age.

If you’re considering ways to improve your lifestyle, maintain and improve your health, add a combination of low-impact daily physical activity with fun built in, take the next step and start looking at Ebikes today. EbikeCityZen.com is your resource for a great selection of Electric Bicycles perfect for your needs. Particularly our collection of Cruiser Ebikes and Step-Through Ebikes. These Ebikes have the perfect combination of comfort and ease, come with racks over the rear wheel built in, and easily accommodate the addition of baskets, pannier bags and accessories to make the bike your own. And don't forget that Electric Tricycles are available at EbikeCityZen.com too! Why wait? Rediscover the joy of cycling again and embrace the freedom that your new Ebike brings to your life.