However enthusiastic you are about getting on your exercise bike to begin with, you will eventually find you fall out of the habit of doing it. This is quite common and however much you enjoy doing it, once you miss a day it can be very easy to slide into a routine of avoiding it.
So what do you do if you have reached this impasse yourself? How do you get back in the saddle and start making the most of this great way to keep fit once again?
The secret is in removing some of the mental obstacles you might have to exercising in this way. For example it is very easy to think ‘tomorrow I will get back on and cycle a mile.’ But then tomorrow comes and suddenly you start putting it off and avoiding it. You can do it later in the day, can’t you? It’s not a problem – except that later in the day arrives and you still haven’t done it. And before you know it you are back to another day and still procrastinating about getting on your exercise bike.
What you have to do to break this deadlock is to take the focus off the actual cycling. To begin with you will probably ache a bit, and that will be a reason not to do it. You might also feel guilty that you have left it so long. But if you take the focus off those reasons and focus on how good you will feel afterwards instead, you are tackling the problem from a more positive angle.
If you think back to when you used your exercise bike in the past you will realise how good you felt once you got out of the saddle. No matter how much or little you did, you felt better for it. And that is the mood you need to regain. Once you have done that you will feel more encouraged to get back in the saddle and start pedalling again.
You can also make things easier by aiming to start very small. For example don’t opt to pedal for six miles – do half a mile instead. It is a very short amount of time to commit to your exercise bike – but it will set the bug free once again.
And as we all know, riding your exercise bike is a great way to keep fit.