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What’s an air bike and how can it improve your fitness at home?
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You’ve heard of exercise bikes and you might have heard of elliptical trainers but you most likely are not familiar with the buff love child of them, the air bike. Air bikes combine the positive aspects of both of the aforementioned machines and combine them with air resistance. And a lot of it.
Unlike exercise bikes, air bikes are not preferred by people in their late 60s who want to cram in some extra exercising at home. No, air bikes are preferred by American footballers, cage fighters and CrossFitters, as they work perfectly with in-vogue High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and Tabata-style workouts, where short recovery sessions are rapidly followed by intense bursts of exercise.