These Tips from Top Trainers Will Give You Serious Workout Motivation
Bicyling Magazine • November 21, 2018
“Come back to your goals. Take a minute to sit down in a quiet space, reread your goals, visualize them accomplished. Ask yourself, are these still your goals? If not, then realign your goals with the new ones. Focus on your ‘why.’ ‘Why’ do you want to accomplish these goals? What will you receive by completing them? When your ‘why’ is strong enough, then nothing can stop you from achieving them.” – Hunter Allen
, USA Cycling-certified coach and CEO of Peaks Coaching Group
Sports psychology, expert coaches, scientists, physiological testing, nutrition, and the means to quantify training effort and dose: each of these factors has played a part in changing the way cyclists train.
It’s easy for cyclists to have their beef with indoor studios. The bikes often don’t compare to what you find on the road, instructors can lack true experience with the sport, and crunches on a stationary bike can sometimes be enough to make even non-cyclists squirm.
For a while, you excitedly watched your 20-minute test numbers rise but then, they stall.What’s this!? Does this mean you’ve reached the limit of your FTP improvement?
E-Bikes are here to stay. Not everyone is happy about that. I used to be one of those people. Why? Because of a nagging, if not irrational, concern that e-bikes somehow diminish the currency of my fitness and hard work as a trainer, coach, and athlete.
