I got a bike and I tried to go up in the roads and I couldnt do it. I was only going at walking speed and it was so hard. I got off bike and started walking with it up in the roads. In time, will my leg muscle get stronger and be able to ride up?
yes. also, try shifting gears if it is a multi-speed bike. if the gear is too high it will be hard to move the pedals, and if it's too low you will be pumping your legs like crazy and not making any progress.
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Yes your legs will gain muscle and your cardio will improve. Sometimes it goes feel like walking will be faster when you get to a point. I remember once I cycles up a hill. In Australia to get fit and one day I actually made it to the top and I was absolutely ruined. Went to the pub that afternoon and because I was so exhausted I got really drunk really fast. I never did that ride again though. It wasn't a big hill or long but just stupid steep. Then I'd ride up a better long mountain but it was like not so steep but still enough to tire you out. Get to the top, drop the air pressures down and that's when it got fun, on the way down.
riding a bike down a mountain is definitely the way to go. there's a place by where my grandparents lived where they turned an old logging train track from the top of a mountain down into town into a bike trail; you basically coast down the entire mountain, past several old train stations and small villages, and right back into the middle of town, and you have to pedal maybe a dozen times. i also did a bike ride down a mountain in hawaii. that was cool too, although it was a guided tour so inherently less fun.
i don't care how many gears you have, pedal power is exactly the same effort as walking. you just go about three times as far in the same time with that same effort. effort over time is the same. until you come to a hill. then the mass of the bike, however light, adds to your own mass to have to propel it. which is why i'm not a great enthusiast of pedal power anyplace that isn't very nearly flat. (and i don't have a lot of love for places being very nearly flat either) a three of four wheel pedal power vehicle has some of the advantages of a powered vehicle in that you can carry stuff with it. there are places in this world where people use two wheels to carry stuff too. but for anything very long or heavy, from what i've seen, as often as not this means walking beside it. i've had tenspeeds and fifteen speeds and three speeds. aside from the fact that bikes are too easily stolen, and often way too expensive for what you get, i'm sorry, but there is NO combination of gearing, that makes it easy to pedal up a hill. any easier to do so, nor even as easy to do so, as simply walking.
I experienced a break through with hills the first time I pushed harder than I thought I could and my brain gave me a burst of happy chemicals and now I associate hills with euphoria. My cycling up hills ability is something i enjoy being good at because there is a steep hill out of the village and all summer I get compliments yelled at me by pedestrians : )
i don't get enough of that to be more then the pain and sweat and exhaustion. i have to admit though that's not a way i'd ever thought of looking at it.
When I had a ten speed what I would do - and I think what you're supposed to do - is shift to a higher gear; the gears that pedal really fast. When you're on flat ground you can just pedal around in whatever gear you want. Try the easier gears for hills!
