This all comes down to you really and how hard your cycling
Indoor cycling classes are great at really hitting the needle on the head when it comes to delivering an intensive, motivating, sweat-dripping cardio workout.
It’s the environment you’re in.
Surrounded by your peers, trying to keep up with the class, motivating rhythmic music and the shouts of the cycling instructor directly in front of you.
These factors alone help you to push yourself past your own boundaries that you thought was your limit into new uncharted waters!
Keeping up the intensity of the class, mixing it up with interval training and up and down on the saddle is going to make you push harder, make your leg muscles work more and essentially burn off a mass amount of calories.
Check out this handy little calculator that determines how many calories you can burn.
Outdoor cycling can tend to be harder in the sense that it’s only you that’s got your back.
You need to have greater willpower and want it more to deliver a really intense cardio workout!
This simply comes down to the type of person you are.
When cycling outdoors, no-one is shouting and yelling telling you to push harder or to crank up the resistance.
You need to have this in your own mind, you need to really turn on that engine within you to deliver an explosive workout.
Now, some people do prefer outdoor cycling and prefer cycling for longer periods of time.
By cycling for longer you can burn off a great number of calories that equates to a 45-minute or 1 hour indoor cycling class.
It’s really what you feel is best for you!
Now, when outdoor cycling there are factors that need to be taken into account.