A recumbent cycle provides a wide comfortable seat and a back support rest.
The back support allows you to sit with your shoulders back and relaxed. Your lungs are open, instead of restricted as when leaning forward on an upright cycle.
As you are not steering the cycle, handlebars are not needed. You tend to lean forward onto handlebars on an upright cycle, closing off your lungs and putting stra\in on your lower back.
No handlebars also means your hands are free to do other things, such as read a book or magazine.
The range of motion through the legs and buttocks is greater on a recumbent cycle. The knee moves higher into the cycling rotation using the large muscles in the upper leg (quadriceps). Also, the muscles in your buttocks (glutes) are being used. With more of the larger muscles working, the easier it is to reach your target heart rate zone and keep it there.
The lower seat position of the recumbent cycle makes easy access onto the cycle. Your not havinh to lift your leg up over the mounting to get onto the cycle.
Recumbent cycling is especially ideal for special population users such as pregnant women, lower back pain sufferers and the elderly.

See our range of recumbent exercise bikes