What muscles does riding a bike work?

Riding a bike primarily works your lower body. Over time, you’ll see the greatest gains in muscle strength and tone in your lower body from cycling regularly. Pushing the pedals on a bike engages your quadriceps, the large muscles in your thighs, and climbing hills or using bigger gears will require more effort from these muscles. read more

Riding uphill is hard work and will place large amounts of stress on both your glutes and thigh muscles, giving them a hard workout and stimulating muscle fiber damage. This damage is what you want. It leads to improvement in strength and muscle tone once your muscles recover. read more

The muscles you work the most when riding an exercise bike are the quadriceps and hamstrings. Your quads are the main driving force on the downward pedal stroke, while your hamstrings work on the upward pedal stroke. read more