Tip 1: Get on your bike
It's easy to spend time reading books and training manuals, and looking at pictures of bikes in glossy magazines. Unfortunately none of these will help improve your cycling as much as actually getting out on your bike! No nutritional advice or super-light carbon-fibre bike is any use at all unless you also spend time out on the road.
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Try and get out two or three times a week - perhaps two evenings a week after work for a short trip (an hour or so) and once at the weekend for a longer ride (perhaps two hours, slowly increasing to three hours).
Tip 2: Ignore your average speed
Most cyclists have a small computer on the bike that reports average speed, distances travelled and so on. This is great information to have, but your goal is not to travel as far as possible, or to have an average speed as high as possible.
The goal is (a) to have fun and (b) to increase your overall level of cycling ability. Sometimes you will feel great and other times be a bit tired. You will need to start each ride with a slow few miles of 'warm-up'.
If you set out simply to increase overall average speed, you will be tempted to ride too fast immediately you set off, without adequate warm-up, and this will lead to muscle pains and other injuries.
Tip 3: Cycling uphill
Cycling on the flat is fine, but the sure way to improve your strength on a bike is to cycle up hills. At first even a small hill can seem very difficult, but after a few times you will find they get easier. You won't notice small hills, and big hills won't seem so bad. Yes they will still hurt, but the sense of achievement outweighs the suffering.
It's not about the bike! Just because hills are difficult doesn't mean you need a lighter bike, it probably just means you need more practice on hills.
Believe it or not you will even reach a point where you enjoy cycling up hills!
Tip 4: Cycle intervals
Modern thinking is that the best way to improve your level of ability is to spend 90 % of the time cycling at a reasonably leisurely pace (not too leisurely, though) with great exertion the remaining 10% of the time.
This is usually achieved using so-called intervals. The general idea is that you cycle very hard for a short time, then spend a few minutes cycling gently while you recover, then cycle hard again...and so on.
The length of each exertion varies, but one minute of very hard work followed by five minutes of recovery would be a good starting point.
Don't forget though, you need to do fifteen minutes warm-up cycling before you start the hard intervals.
Tip 5: Stay motivated on your bike rides
Initial enthusiasm and rapid improvements in your speed and ability might make you want to cycle all the time. This is good, but can be very harmful to your body, especially if you have spent several years without doing much exercise. Aches and pains can turn up that at first you don't even associate with cycling.
It's better to cycle three or four times a week and want to do more, than to cycle every day and get fed up with it. If you want a few days off from cycling - no problem!
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