What’s the trick to riding your bike a little faster?
Should you ride your bike more? (Ideally, ride your bike three times a week if you’re looking to boost your fitness and create a consistent cycling routine.)
Or work on your cycling skills? (There are several skills to master—from riding your bike uphill and then riding your bike downhill to learning how to handle your bike in rainy weather.)
Or should you pay close attention to what you’re saying to yourself when you’re on your bike?
It’s all of the above, but today, we’ll focus on how you’re motivating yourself with cycling mantras when you’re on your bike.
Let’s get started.
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HOW TO USE CYCLING MANTRAS TO BOOST YOUR CYCLING ENDURANCE AND CYCLING SPEED
We don’t always have friends and family cheering us on from the sidelines during our bike rides.
But you can be your cheerleader when you use motivational cycling mantras because your inner self-talk can influence how far and fast you can ride your bike. (But remember, mental skills are no substitute for doing regular bike rides.)
You can use a phrase that resonates with you (and you’ll find some inspiring cycling mantras below), or you can craft your own.
To create your personalized cycling mantra:
Next up, cycling motivation quotes to help you craft your cycling mantras.
CYCLING MOTIVATION QUOTES TO SWIPE FOR YOUR CYCLING MANTRAS
1. As long as I breathe, I attack. -Bernard Hinault (Did you read this book about one of the most contentious rivalries in the Tour de France?)
2. The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most. – Eddie Merckx
3. You can. You will.
4. Racing up a mountain is like putting your hand into a flame—it hurts and you want to do anything you can to make it stop. Only in racing, if you stop, you lose, and then the pain lasts longer. You have to find whatever it is that switches off that reflex, and when you do, you can hold it. You can learn to stay still in the pain. – Domestique, Charly Wegelius (This book is a fascinating peek into the life of a professional domestique.)
5. Be swift and smooth.
6. Ride it like you stole it.
7. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
8. Today, you get to ride.
9. It always seems impossible until it’s done.
10. Your speed doesn’t matter. Forward is forward.
11. There are 3 ways to pedal: with your legs, with your lungs, or with your heart.
12. To struggle is good.
13. You will make it.
14. Unstoppable and fearless.
15. You did it before and you can do it again.
16. Ask yourself: Can I give more? The answer is usually: “Yes”. -Paul Tergat
17. It is the one who endures that the final victory comes.
18. Start strong. Finish stronger.
19. Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it, you will win nothing. – Eddy Merckx, aka “the Cannibal” had an unrelenting appetite for winning, which you can read about here.
20. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it’s not going to be satisfying. – Greg LeMond
A motivational cycling mantra can (along with physical training) inject some much-needed energy and motivation throughout your bike ride.
And that’s especially true if you’ve used ‘you’ in your mantra, if your mantra is short and packs a punch with action words.
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