How to Cool Down After Cycling

Video Transcript

KEVIN LIVINGSTON: Hi, I'm Kevin Livingston. Let's talk about cooling down. Let's say you've been out for a workout or a ride and you're approaching your house, maybe you're ideally about 15 minutes to 30 minutes out, you should start a cool down. A proper cool down is good for your muscles. It also helps with your recovery from the ride. Basically all you need to do is find a nice, flat, stretch of road. Gear down, get into your small chain ring in the front, use some of your lighter gears on the upper part of your cogs in the back. Get in a gear that you can comfortably turn your legs maybe anywhere from 80 rpm to even the upper 90s depending how experienced a rider you are. But get in the 80s rpm, move along nice and slow and just try to--really you're just walking yourself down from your efforts so you can cool down. The goal is that you get out any remnants of any sort of effort you had that day in your muscles and your legs and just general feeling. So that when you get off your bike, you feel good and you're ready for the next day, and this will also help a lot in your recovery.