Losing and maintaining weight and staying fit is a lifelong goal that requires dedication and patience to achieve and maintain. Although the key to achieving this goal is relatively simple; that is, adequate exercise and a well-balanced diet, as you know, “simple” does not necessarily mean “easy”. Furthermore, his real challenge lies in his ability to maintain his newly acquired and hard-earned fitness. This is most easily achieved with increased muscle toning and of course staying lean.

Fortunately, with the advent of the Trikke incline vehicle, gaining and maintaining healthy shape has never been easier or more exciting. If you love to get out and enjoy the outdoors, and you haven’t experienced the Trikke scooter yet, you’re in for a treat!

As a human powered vehicle, your Trikke HPV requires continuous movement of your body to launch it and keep it going. Trikke is actually easier to learn than mastering a bike, which is a really good thing for some of us out of shape 20+ year olds 🙂

After your initial lesson to get comfortable on your new Trikke, you can start an outdoor adventure program that doubles as a weight loss and fitness regimen by following these five easy steps:

1. Boost your Trikke scooter and start your training. You can also push and pull the handlebars to generate inching motion. To maintain momentum, you will continuously lean and push the handlebars to the right and then to the left. For beginners, powering the Trikke can take time and practice. Regardless of whether you can propel your Trikke scooter on your first try or after several tries, the continuous arm thrusts required to move your Trikke forward give your arm and shoulder muscles a great workout. But the benefits aren’t just limited to your arms and shoulders… read on, my friend!

2. Start cruising on your Trikke scooter and tone your core muscles. You should twist your upper body into a series of “S” turns while slightly leaning your weight to the inside of the turn to start cruising. This will cause a continuous and rhythmic contraction of the core muscles, that is, the abdominal, back and hip muscles. Over time, with regular Trikke training, these muscles will appear well defined and toned.

3. Accelerate your Trikke, burn fat to lose weight. You will learn to regulate your speed while riding your Trikke using different muscle groups.

To achieve maximum speed, you should start moving your upper and lower body in sync by applying a little weight or kicking your right foot when turning left and vice versa as you reach what many Trikke riders refer to as the “stop point.” optimum”.

To gain speed, more muscles need to be contracted, therefore more energy will be needed, causing fat to be burned to supply the energy needed. In fact, studies have estimated that riding the Trikke at a speed of 15 km/h will burn approximately 500 Kcal per hour. Sailing at a faster speed of 17.5 km/h will burn up to 700 kcal per hour. And when you reach maximum speed, you will end up burning more than 1000 kcal per hour.

This is an effective, not to mention fun way to achieve weight loss while enjoying the exhilaration of speeding your Trikke around your neighborhood or taking your Trikke on vacation to get a better look at the local sites.

4. Like anything, the more you ride your Trikke, the better you’ll get at it. As they say “Practicing Trikke-ing makes Trikke-ing perfect”. (Just kidding, :-0 “they” don’t actually say that). As you continue to Trikke, you will learn to tone specific parts of your body. As you master your Trikke, you will learn to control the degree of movement of your body while riding. If you want to target specific muscle groups, you can always increase or decrease your body torque while accelerating on your Trikke.

Also, changing the height of your Trikke’s handlebars will also help target different muscle groups. Raising the Trikke handlebars will result in a greater lower body workout. The more you raise the handlebars, the easier it is to perform the left and right rocking motion on the front wheel. This will make your lower body work harder on the swing.

On the other hand, the lower the handlebars of your Trikke are, the more you will have to bend and tuck your arms into the handlebars. This will give your upper body more exercise.

5. Trikke uphill and improve your cardiopulmonary training. One of the hardest things to accomplish in Trikke-ing is powering your Trikke scooter down a steep incline. Only advanced riders can master this due to its level of difficulty. Driving against gravity will require more power, and the higher the hill you have to climb, the harder your progress will be. Since muscle contraction through coordinated body movements is the driving force behind your Trikke scooter’s forward movement, more power translates to more contracted muscles. This, in turn, requires increased blood flow to the working muscles, faster heart contraction to propel blood, and faster breathing to get oxygen to the working muscles – a true cardiopulmonary workout in every way.

Starting your Trikke training program will improve your muscular strength and endurance, strengthen your heart and respiratory muscles, improve your circulation, help reduce your weight and give you a fit body, and improve your overall well-being. All while having lots of fun!