Cyclists are required to know 12 Lessons from Other Sports

Life is always wonderful and beyond expectation. The things you can learn from many aspects can be also used in other fields. For example, as a cyclist, you can learn many lessons from other sports. Now we are going to talk about these.



Master the key skills
Each sport has it own skills to reach the best condition. For example, you should use the front part of your feet in a short run. While in cycling, you had better learn the attack position and other skills. They will help you to improve your cycling feeling.

1.Master the key skills

Concentrate on one things completely
Now in the Internet era, all of us carry a mobile phone for the whole day. However, sports need you to put aside your phone and do it with full concentration. Some people even when they are driving or riding, they still use their phone. As long as I saw that, I was full of anger because it is a danger for both the driver and people around him. It is a irresponsible action. You had better not to use the phone, even if it must. If there are vehicles or pedestrians approaching to you while watching your phone, you don't notice, sometimes a little slower will cause an accident.

Pay full attention to cycling.



Know exactly about your fundamental information
You need to know some fundamental medical knowledge, including your blood group, your history, your history of drug allergy. There won’t be 100% of being secured in sports. You should have ideas to wrestle with the problem you may encounter in a sport in order to help you. If you are injured, make sure that your partner can get in touch with your family and help you out as soon as he can.



9.Don’t drink ice drinks

In any sports, drinking ice drinks is not a wise action, especially in cycling.

Do not drink ice drinks during a cycling because blood is mostly concentrated on the surface. Frozen drinks drink will be on the anemia of gastrointestinal that produces strong stimulation, vasoconstriction, and anemia. In addition, drinking water and ice may also lead to cerebral vasospasm, causing angina after riding. It is of danger for you to feel uncomfortable while you are cycling. Drink warm boiling water, salt water or sports drinks to supplement the body of water and electrolyte.



Enhance your health condition
Staying in the same position on the bike for several hours means that your muscles are getting increasingly tight. And some parts of your body will be injured because of overuse. Health condition plays a fundamental role in sports, such as jogging, running, ballets and martial arts. Being cyclists, you can learn much from observing how the athletes warm up to make each group of muscles to function better and avoid being injured.



Have more breaks
Runners like to do sessions with more breaks, and usually with shorter recoveries than in riding.

If you think it suitable for you in physical, give one or two extra breaks to your session. Because it can help you improve your fitness to a higher level. You can gain continuously power from breaks.



Find your music
A piece of music that is short and repetitive and you can sing in your mind is conducive to your status.

Relaxation. It can distract yourself from the pain in intense session. When you are in a bad mood, a delighted music can help you relax and feel better. Be positive with cheerful songs in your mind while cycling.



Learn a technique that helps you to relax
Racing can induce anger as we know. Mastering the relaxation skills contributes to turn negative energy into useful extra focus in cycling. You can have better feeling in riding. What is more, it is useful for you to help your friends and may develop your friendship.



Use active recovery
Keep going on while you are improving from a tough training session. It is a positive and active measure for recovery. In a lot of sports, jogging, swimming or a gentle spin are considered to help you gain better recovery than just stay in bed without doing anything.



Know about researches
Many cycling products company often do researches to enhance their productions and make them more popular. Stay abreast of the trend of new researches and enrich your knowledge by looking out for the researches which come from the sport science universities. In order to catch up with the latest discoveries in many sports as well as cycling, you should attempt to read more. The more you know, the better you can do in cycling.



Use equipment that fits you most
As we know, running in nice track shoes can get a better score than in ordinary shoes. Because a pair of nice shoes can make you feel better and powerful. It is the same in cycling. As a good cyclist, you are required to not only know amount of professional knowledge about cycling, but also use suitable equipment. Prepare equipment of your size is not a easy thing because you need to know about different materials of cycling products as well. What you need to be clear is the amount of cycling equipment is larger than that of running. Cycling jersey, shorts, gloves, shoes, helmet and some of other things should be prepares well for cycling. You ought to know their brands and reviews from customers and then make your decision. The better you prepare, the better you can feel while riding.



Warm up
If you have the experience of swimming or read some news about swimming accidents, you must know the importance of warming up before going into the swimming pool. Otherwise, it may lead to getting cramp in the water or even cause a serious accident. It is the same in cycling. If you practice not enough before staring riding, you can not stretch enough and will feel uncomfortable while cycling. It may also cause cramp and lead to accidents especially when you are unable to maneuver the bike well and concentrate on riding.