Is a recumbent exercise bike as good as an upright bike for losing weight?

You have to take the entire outside panels off. Then you can remount the chain, similar to the way you would put a dropped chain off a single speed bike. Then if you look you will see tensioners ...

I suspect much of it has to do with the riders. I've never seen anyone on a 'bent climb very well, but most of the riders seem to be overweight casual cyclists. Many of them go wit...

No. From physics, the work required to move a given mass to a higher elevation is a function purely of the mass and the elevation; from a power point of view, time is added as a variable. I do ...

One of two things... Either you are gaining muscle mass or you are gaining fat mass. This site will tell you how many calories you should eat. Type in your target weight. Pick an activity lev...

how could you not?

Squats. If you do many reps with a low weight, they will tone, rather than build. If I have to choose from your though, I would say elliptical or recumbent bike.

If you eat right too, you'll definitely lose fat. Thats a lot of good cardio so it sounds really good. I think you'll def. be slimmer by summer if you keep it up

Congrats on wanting to become healthier. Working out with somebody is great because they can give you motivation. All of the things you mention: treadmill, bike, elliptical, they're all fantas...