With resilience on your bike!
Cycling resilience – also known as ‘with flow on your bike’ is nothing more or less than clearing your head while cycling. This requires the right balance between your body and your mind.
Read more about bicycle resilience in this article.
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Cycling as ‘medicine’ for body and mind
Cycling is not only good to keep your fitness up or to keep up with your muscles. Cycling has also been shown to be a good way of exercising to maintain your well-being and resilience. And let’s be honest: wouldn’t you rather jump on your bike than have to take a handful of medicine every day?
A nice development that you see nowadays is that employers also stimulate their employees with, for example, a bicycle plan. This way you get your daily portion of exercise every day during your ride to and from work. Paul Blokhuis – State Secretary for Welfare and Sport – states in the Prevention Agreement that cycling not only provides fun and entertainment, but also serves as a true medicine.
What is ‘cycling in a flow’?
With the word ‘flow’ you can have associations with speed. Yet this is not the case. There is no ideal speed for cycling. Everyone is different and has different stamina.
To get into the right flow on the bike, it is important that you persevere. It almost never happens that you are immediately in a wonderful flow when you start pedaling on your bike. You have to get over the so-called threshold. Once you have cleared your mind and the movements in your body provide peace of mind, the actual flow can begin.
In simple steps to a nice flow on your two-wheeler
It may all sound a bit mushy. Still, it’s worth a try. How do you cycle in a flow? You can read the 4 simple steps below:
struggle
You know it: you have to get all your stuff together before you can go out the door and jump on your bike. Or your partner forgot to take out the trash can, even though you asked to do so in advance. Maybe your work keeps your mind busy. Whatever it is, at this step your head is still full of different thoughts.
relax
At this step, you will increasingly end up in a flow. You learn to let go of thoughts after a few kilometers. You notice from your posture and mentally that you are starting to relax. Maybe even start to enjoy nature and everything that happens around you.
flow
Yes, there it is! With this step you have the flow. You notice that cycling comes naturally. Your thoughts are at 0, forget the time and get beautiful and deep insights, without you having to do your best.
recovery
Once out of the flow in the previous step, you will notice that you are beginning to recover from your trip satisfied and satisfied. You arrive at your destination relaxed and notice that you are ready for what you have to do.
Choose a good bike to get into a good flow
It is important that you can cover a number of kilometers on your bike. As mentioned before, almost no one immediately gets into the right flow. In order not to be busy with your bicycle, but mainly to be concerned with your mental health, it is important that you have a good bicycle.
For example, take a look at the Koga Colmaro Sports 2022. This sporty racing bike has no less than 30 gears and is ideal for (slightly) longer trips.
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