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Motivation is essential in exercise, especially to maintain a routine and to be able to achieve your goals -regardless of whether they are fitness or to improve marks at a professional level-. In this article we focus on motivation in cycling, specifically how to motivate yourself to exercise and stick to a smooth cycling routine. Read on to find out more!
Most importantly, use quality indoor cycling equipment
Although it is often not given the importance it deserves, the most important thing when you decide to exercise is to equip yourself correctly. This means using comfortable and special clothes to practice the exercise, but also equip yourself with quality sports equipment, as this will enhance the experience and allow you to achieve the goals you are looking for. In the case of indoor cycling you can opt for two modalities, training with a smart cycle bike or a bike roller. The ZBike 2.0 smart bike is a hybrid between cycling and fitness. This model gives you the possibility to use your bike to get in shape, gain endurance and lose weight, and of course to practice cycling at home in a professional way. And all this thanks to its performance and the technology with which it has been equipped, such as the automatic adjustment of its resistance, its low noise, or its compatibility with the main cycling simulators. You can also opt for the ZBike FREE bike model, which includes the above features, but incorporates a novel and addictive freewheel system for a more realistic cycling experience.
Training with a bike trainer, on the other hand, gives us the possibility of using our usual bike, but at home, whether it is a road bike or a mountain bike. ZYCLE’s roller models vary depending on the sensations they offer and how they work, and we can distinguish between the ZPro smart roller, the Roodol by ZYCLE roller and the ZDrive direct drive roller. Of course, each of them has advanced technological features that allow you to take your cycling experience at home to another level, making the most of every pedal stroke and enjoying stable and secure connectivity for cycling with leading simulators.
Motivation to exercise: set clear goals and stick to them
The importance of defining a goal is fundamental to motivate yourself to exercise, whatever the goal may be, there may even be several objectives. But, in any case, the key is to define it and follow it since it will help you start the session with more energy and motivation. For example, you can define your goal to lose weight, but also to tone up, to gain more endurance, to gain leg strength, to improve your pedaling technique, to improve your stability on the bike… This will keep you focused and help you measure your progress. Of course, you should aim for a realistic goal, otherwise you are more than likely to lose motivation when you see that you are not achieving your goals.
How to find the motivation to exercise with a training plan
The fact of launching into cycling at home without having defined a goal usually translates into failure, now, it is more than likely that the same thing will happen if you do not have a defined training plan -especially for those who start exercising for the first time and do not know how to practice indoor cycling-. Creating a training plan, or asking for help to create one based on your needs, constitution, health and fitness, will be very useful. Generally speaking, you should know that it should contemplate the number of weekly sessions and should alternate between training with light exercises and days of higher intensity to keep the body active and motivated. In our ZYCLE blog you can read about tips on how to train correctly, types of training and much more.
Motivational cycling music: make the session more enjoyable
Several studies have shown that the synchronization of music with exercise provides great benefits in terms of performance, becoming a very important element, therefore, in motivation. Music helps to clear the mind, evoke positive emotions and transform the level of training, in general. You can choose, for example, to listen to energetic and cheerful music to make the time you are on the bike go faster and enjoy the exercise; now, one of the advantages of indoor training, both with bike and rollers, is that you can practice it almost anywhere in your home, so you can place your bike in the living room, for example, and enjoy a series or a movie while you train.
The cycling simulator as a motivation to exercise
Cycling simulators offer an infinite number of routes and courses to follow that will allow you to feel as if you were on the road or in the mountains, even on a closed track, without having to leave your home. Moreover, if your bike or roller has advanced technology -such as ZYCLE’s automatic resistance adjustment- you will enjoy a much more realistic experience, since you will not have to carry out any action and it will adapt to the terrain of the simulator route in question. In addition, some cycling simulators even give you the possibility to compete online or make routes with other users for very entertaining and totally immersive experiences. At ZYCLE you can take advantage of our free coupons on the main cycling simulators to enjoy the best experience with your bike.
Cycling Motivation: check your results and records
If you’ve stuck to your training and have worked correctly, you’ll notice how your results improve quickly. It is important that you check your data periodically to see how the effort you have put in is worth it. What better motivation than that? With the ZYCLE app we give you the opportunity to check the maximum power achieved, as well as the average values. Even the cadence in real time in rpm. All this will allow you to keep track of what your results are and note your marks to motivate you for the next training session.
