{"id":409847,"date":"2026-04-21T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:41:31","slug":"26-cycling-fitness-transformations-that-pushed-pedallers-past-their-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409847\/","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":409848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[180098,180099,180100,180101,149803,499,7577,103,61,60,180102,2114],"class_list":{"0":"post-409847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-bicycling-fitness","9":"tag-bike-workouts","10":"tag-cycling-motivation","11":"tag-cycling-transformation","12":"tag-cycling-workouts","13":"tag-fitness","14":"tag-fitness-journey","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-spin-class-results","19":"tag-weight-loss"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}