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Amman Cycling Club promotes good health, exploration
By Rifaat Al-Nasser, Jordan News
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AMMAN — If you are looking to improve your fitness,
discover a passion, or break out of the same routine, then the Amman Cycling
Club is just for you.اضافة اعلان
With biking tours all over Amman, this club provides entertaining, alternative ways for staying healthy, meeting new people, and exploring the city.
In an interview with Jordan News, Mahmoud Ayoub, the founder of Amman Cycling Club, delved into the founding story of his organization.
As a university student, he dreamed of opening his own business. In 2011, with the little capital he accumulated over the years, he bought five bikes and opened a rental shop as a small startup.
From there, he saw potential for growth and expanded the organization to what it is today.
With roughly 56,000 followers on Facebook and 50 to 100 people attending each event, Ayoub’s cycling project is not just a fad — Ayoub attributes this growth largely to his fair pricing.
(Photos: Amman Cycling Club’s Facebook page)
With just the clothes on your back and 5-7 JDs, you are provided with a bike, water, and snacks, as well as safety equipment, including a helmet and florescent vest.
Each touring event around Amman is accompanied by a coach, a medical expert to provide first aid, and vehicles, including pickup trucks and motorcycles to ensure the safety of the cyclists from traffic hazards.
Ayoub stressed how important safety is to his organization.
Amman Cycling Club also offers a wide variety of services including bike rentals, repairs, and maintenance, training and safety events, and touring events.
The touring events are held several days a week, typically starting at 7pm during the weekdays and 9am on the weekends.
(Photos: Amman Cycling Club’s Facebook page)
The events explore areas around Amman such as Khalda, Dair Ghbar, and Dabouq.
They also provide local events for children in neighborhoods, schools, and parks.
In these events, they teach safety and traffic hazards as well as an obstacle course to help practice balancing and maneuvering with the assistance of coaches.
Cycling has a great deal of benefits associated with it, according to Ayoub.
He has personally noticed that cycling helps develop “legs of steel” as well as improve your cardio.
(Photos: Amman Cycling Club’s Facebook page)
He noted how refreshing it is to bike in the early hours of the morning or late hours in the evening, describing the cool breeze on your face as the feeling of stress just melt away.
And there is evidence to support these claims.
A meta-review published in 2011 was centered on the health benefits associated with cycling.
The study discovered that there is strong evidence for heart and lung health improvements as well as moderate evidence for reduced cardiovascular risk factors in adults who cycle.
More specifically, evidence has shown that cycling 3.5 hours a week or more is associated with reducing the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases by up to 20 percent.
Another study published in 2009 found physical activity from exercise helped improve symptoms in people suffering from depression.
Cycling has also been found to improve other areas of life including cognitive function, emotional well-being, as well as social well-being.
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With biking tours all over Amman, this club provides entertaining, alternative ways for staying healthy, meeting new people, and exploring the city.
In an interview with Jordan News, Mahmoud Ayoub, the founder of Amman Cycling Club, delved into the founding story of his organization.
As a university student, he dreamed of opening his own business. In 2011, with the little capital he accumulated over the years, he bought five bikes and opened a rental shop as a small startup.
From there, he saw potential for growth and expanded the organization to what it is today.
With roughly 56,000 followers on Facebook and 50 to 100 people attending each event, Ayoub’s cycling project is not just a fad — Ayoub attributes this growth largely to his fair pricing.
(Photos: Amman Cycling Club’s Facebook page)
With just the clothes on your back and 5-7 JDs, you are provided with a bike, water, and snacks, as well as safety equipment, including a helmet and florescent vest.
Each touring event around Amman is accompanied by a coach, a medical expert to provide first aid, and vehicles, including pickup trucks and motorcycles to ensure the safety of the cyclists from traffic hazards.
Ayoub stressed how important safety is to his organization.
Amman Cycling Club also offers a wide variety of services including bike rentals, repairs, and maintenance, training and safety events, and touring events.
The touring events are held several days a week, typically starting at 7pm during the weekdays and 9am on the weekends.
(Photos: Amman Cycling Club’s Facebook page)
The events explore areas around Amman such as Khalda, Dair Ghbar, and Dabouq.
They also provide local events for children in neighborhoods, schools, and parks.
In these events, they teach safety and traffic hazards as well as an obstacle course to help practice balancing and maneuvering with the assistance of coaches.
Cycling has a great deal of benefits associated with it, according to Ayoub.
He has personally noticed that cycling helps develop “legs of steel” as well as improve your cardio.
(Photos: Amman Cycling Club’s Facebook page)
He noted how refreshing it is to bike in the early hours of the morning or late hours in the evening, describing the cool breeze on your face as the feeling of stress just melt away.
And there is evidence to support these claims.
A meta-review published in 2011 was centered on the health benefits associated with cycling.
The study discovered that there is strong evidence for heart and lung health improvements as well as moderate evidence for reduced cardiovascular risk factors in adults who cycle.
More specifically, evidence has shown that cycling 3.5 hours a week or more is associated with reducing the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases by up to 20 percent.
Another study published in 2009 found physical activity from exercise helped improve symptoms in people suffering from depression.
Cycling has also been found to improve other areas of life including cognitive function, emotional well-being, as well as social well-being.
Read more about Health
