• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    22 hours ago

    Establishing a daily routine really helped me out. The power of will isn’t reliable, but habits are strong

    Speaking from experience, this is so damn true.

    Ten push-ups are better than no push-ups at all, but in a while, it gonna be twenty and thirty

    Yup! I did pretty much exactly this with biking: I started off a couple years ago doing just a couple minutes a day on my exercise bike, then 5 then 10 etc.

    Then eventually I got a better exercise bike and the Kinomap app and started to do variable speed videos from the real world.

    10-20km flat routes at first, but eventually I got where I can do all the toughest Tour de France mountains and my longest route was a double century (over 200km).

    I also got an outdoor bike in October, starting off doing just short shopping trips in addition to my exercise biking, gradually building up to where I do my exercise rides outdoors when the weather’s good enough, use it as my primary mode of transportation, and have completed two outdoor centuries so far with many more to come 😁

    Unfortunately, I crashed a few weeks ago and haven’t been able to ride because of my injuries, so I’m pretty much back to most of my bad habits from before right now 😞