Which is more damaging to the knees, cycling or walking? Which is more beneficial for weight loss

Recently, the main forms of exercise have been cycling and weight loss, but I heard that exercise is particularly prone to knee injuries. I wonder which one is more damaging to the knee, cycling or walking?

Which one hurts the knee more, cycling or walking?

To be precise, cycling and walking correctly do not harm the knee.

Both walking and cycling are not sports with great pressure on the knee. Under the standard weight, the pressure on the knee caused by correct operation is 0.5-1 times of the weight. However, if you walk out of the figure of eight, climb the slope, ride a bike or walk, or walk for a long distance, it is easy to cause damage to the knee. Other jumping movements such as playing basketball, volleyball, play badminton, tennis, rope skipping, running, leapfrog jumping, and so on, are more likely to damage the knee. The least damaging aerobic exercise for the knee is usually swimming or rowing. Swimming can be said to have the least impact on the knee joints among all sports, because in water, the joints of the human body are basically not loaded. In addition, the buoyancy of water can help people move their joints while losing weight. However, swimming is a difficult skill to learn, and improper posture can also cause damage to the knee joints.

Rowing machines slide while sitting, without heavy burden or causing knee joint compression, and the flexion and extension angles of some joints are also within a safe range. However, rowing is only commonly found in current gyms and studios, but it is used by relatively few people.

There is also an elliptical machine. When using an elliptical machine, a person's legs move along the trajectory of the elliptical machine, and this trajectory is fixed. The stepping frequency is also suitable, so it causes less knee damage.

Cycling or walking can both help with weight loss, depending on the amount of exercise and whether one can persist in doing so. At the same distance, cycling 10 kilometers consumes approximately 260 calories, averaging 26 calories per kilometer, while walking 10 kilometers consumes 375 calories, averaging 37.5 calories per kilometer. Relatively speaking, walking consumes more calories.

However, weight loss is a long-term process, and it is closely related to an individual's level of exercise and perseverance. If an individual prefers cycling, then cycling is relatively more suitable for weight loss because both are good aerobic weight loss methods. Only by persisting can one successfully lose weight. If one only exercises occasionally, it will not achieve the weight loss effect. Can cycling help me lose weight all over my body. Although cycling exercises mainly on the legs, a person's weight loss and slimming will be reflected throughout the body. For example, if you lose a few pounds while cycling, you will find that the circumference of the whole body, including the face, will decrease. However, the most obvious area of slimming should be the legs, because this area exercises the most. If you want to slim down the waist, you can always maintain the action of tightening the abdomen vigorously during cycling, so that the slimming of the waist will also be more obvious.