{"id":611518,"date":"2026-04-16T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611518\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:14:16","slug":"26-cycling-fitness-transformations-that-pushed-pedallers-past-their-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611518\/","title":{"rendered":"26 Cycling Fitness Transformations That Pushed Pedallers Past Their Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cAfter a decade of slow and steady weight gain, I\u2019d crept up to my heaviest weight. In 2007, when I got married, I was around 200 pounds\u2014but for much of the next decade, my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bicycling.com\/bikes-gear\/mountain-bike\/a20048810\/best-mountain-bikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.bicycling.com\/bikes-gear\/mountain-bike\/a20048810\/best-mountain-bikes\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"mountain bike\" class=\"body-link css-hwwm8d emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mountain bike<\/a> sat dormant, gathering dust. In the spring of 2017, I realized weighed in at 245 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">I started by cutting out all sweets, most carbs, and all booze. Black coffee, eggs, salad, veggies, fruit, nuts, and meat were my go-to. I also decided to ride five to six times a week, no matter what. As the spring and summer went on, I started feeling faster and faster on the bike. The hills I used to have to walk my mountain bike up were now rideable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bicycling.com\/culture\/a32306381\/weight-loss-cycling-jake-kostelyk\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"See Jake&#039;s Story\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.bicycling.com\/culture\/a32306381\/weight-loss-cycling-jake-kostelyk\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-gallery-display=\"embedded-listicle\" class=\"body-btn-link css-1f2r29d emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">See Jake&#8217;s Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAfter a decade of slow and steady weight gain, I\u2019d crept up to my heaviest weight. In 2007,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,297098,297099,784,297100,297101,255738,23822,297102,85,555],"class_list":{"0":"post-611518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bicycling-fitness","11":"tag-bike-workouts","12":"tag-cycling","13":"tag-cycling-motivation","14":"tag-cycling-transformation","15":"tag-cycling-workouts","16":"tag-fitness-journey","17":"tag-spin-class-results","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-weight-loss"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}