Not Medical Advice: The amount of calories burned while performing the bicycle kicks depends on your weight, the number of repetitions that you perform and the speed at which you do the exercise. While the exact numbers for bicycle kicks are not listed, for someone with a body weight of 150lbs., doing bicycle crunches for 5 minutes will burn approximatley 21 calories.
When trying to lose belly fat, many people turn to exercises such as crunches to firm and develop the abdominal muscles even as they lose weight. A study commissioned by the American Council on Exercise suggests that crunches aren't the most effective exercise for toning the abdominals and obliques, however; traditional crunches don't even make the top 10. A much better alternative is the bicycle maneuver, a crunch variant that incorporates leg movements as well.
The bicycle maneuver was the number one exercise for the abdominals, producing 148 percent more activity in the rectus abdominus than traditional crunches; the exercise ranked number two after captain's chair lifts for the obliques, which produced 190 percent more muscle activity than traditional crunches.
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