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What's your favorite motivational technique, quote, etc.? (29 posts)
|  What's your favorite motivational technique, quote, etc.? | up_hiller
Mar 27, 2002 7:14 AM | | I like ones that I can use to push myself when I'm on a long, tough climb at the end of a solo ride with my legs on fire, my head feeling like it is going to explode, and my pulse pounding in my ears. Things like:
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger."
I find that often after I run something like that through my head during a situation like that climb, I wind up taunting myself with it. "Well, you wanna get stronger, don't ya? Move the pedals, you [insert derogatory and very profane name implying weakness]!" It can go on from there for a really long time - until I reach the top or find something else to help keep me going.
Just wondered what others do. I like to borrow this stuff from others and try it out on myself.
happy trails!
matt |
| Remember, there is always somebody better | Andy in Wi
Mar 27, 2002 7:18 AM | | So you best be enjoying yourself rather than worrying about somebody else.
Besides, if you can't be the fastest, just be the muddiest. |
| "No matter how great and destructive your problems might seem .. | Pete.
Mar 27, 2002 7:24 AM | | ...now, remember that you've probably only seen the tip of them."
Ah, it just pumps me up.
Pete |
| wow! I feel good now. thanks! (nfm) | mtbberzrkr
Mar 27, 2002 7:47 AM | | i said NFM!!!! |
| There's a Rush song... | ®andyA
Mar 27, 2002 7:27 AM | | ... that always plays in my head when I'm pushing that hard.
"Marathon", by Rush:
It's not how fast you can go
The force goes into the flow
If you pick up the beat
You can forget about the heat
More than just survival
More than just a flash
More than just a dotted line
More than just a dash
It's a test of ultimate will
The heartbreak climb uphill
Got to pick up the pace
If you want to stay in the race
More than just blind ambition
More than just simple greed
More than just a finish line
Must feed this burning need --
In the long run...
From first to last
The peak is never passed
Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes
One moment's high, and glory rolls on by
Like a streak of lightening that flashes and fades
In the summer sky
Your meters may overload
You can rest at the side of the road
You can miss a stride
But nobody gets a free ride
More than high performance
More than just a spark
More than just the bottom line
Or a lucky shot in the dark --
In the long run...
You can do a lot in a lifetime
If you don't burn out too fast
You can make the most of the distance
First you need endurance --
First you've got to last...
Randy --> yeah, it's about running, but it fits with cycling too... |
| "The secret to happiness... | S+J
Mar 27, 2002 7:28 AM | | ..is high expectations and your own bag of chips."
-Scott Adams- |
| Lately... | Kitchenware
Mar 27, 2002 7:46 AM | | Lately I've come to realize that my mind was the saboteur of many of my past rides. It used to start early, like during the first climb. "You can just walk this you know... Just let them get a bit ahead of you and take a break, they will wait... Granny gear is your friend... You have exercise induced asthma, use it as an excuse... Is that the chili burrito from this morning I taste?.. The list just goes on and on.
Since I've come to realize this, I've been letting my body tell me when I'm done, not my mind. When my legs cramp and refuse to make that circular motion required for forward motion, I'm done. Up until that starts I just tell myself... you gotta keep up with lidarman this year, you gotta keep up with lidarman this year......
~kw |
| re: What's your favorite motivational technique, quote, etc.? | The Weasel
Mar 27, 2002 8:02 AM | | 'We all gotta die sometime.'
Not reccomended for rationalizing stupid risks. |
| That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable (nm) | philipae
Mar 27, 2002 8:10 AM | | |
| What lies behind us... | DutchGirl
Mar 27, 2002 8:10 AM | | and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This quote is stuck on my fridge and it reminds me of the drive inside of me that makes me want to ride, no matter how big the mountain. And, what gets me back on my bike no matter how bad the crash. |
| "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is his bike... | Cleavis Pin
Mar 27, 2002 8:18 AM | | Inside of a dog, its too dark to ride." -Groucho Marx
"Pain is weakness leaving your body" seems to work to get me to the top of a climb. |
| Knowing that quitting feels hundred times worst than burning legs... | K-Zero
Mar 27, 2002 8:34 AM | | ...but that's only in races though. If I'm feeling like shit during a normal ride then I just turn back and go home. After all, I ride for fun.
K-Zero |
| Well, right now thanks to JimC................ | Stine
Mar 27, 2002 8:37 AM | | THIS is printed out and stuck to my monitor. I also keep a copy in my purse to pull out and read should I need a reminder of what I need to do not only on the trail, but in life.
"DH technique...." focus way out front. Plan ahead and know the course. Stay loose. If you come unseated, shoulder roll, get up and get back on,, accelerate and refocus. Feel the ride, revel in the excitement, try a grin. Let out a yell, ok, 2! |
| Nothing like sex to take your mind off a long climb | -Chip.
Mar 27, 2002 11:20 AM | | It used to be song lyrics. Now it's sexual thoughts. Mentally channeling the energy I'm expending into these visions provides me with what I need to get to the top. It's wonderful, I tell ya.
Typically I only use this technique while riding solo.
When riding with others I find the simple act of trying to keep up to be enough inspiration. That, and Jive's protruding buttocks up in front of me.
-C |
| Why did I post this here? Hmmmm. (nm) | -Chip.
Mar 27, 2002 11:21 AM | | |
| Thanks | Jive Tolkien
Mar 27, 2002 11:30 AM | | That was the final push I needed to start emigration proceedings. |
| Not that's just too much information.... | TNJED®
Mar 27, 2002 12:15 PM | | You're thinking about sex with Jive's protruding buttocks in front of you...Does your wife know about this?
I usually like to imagine my legs as a machine just continuously pumping. That and the "Ride it you F'n pu$$y" thought tend to keep me going.
Oh how I long to ride... |
| "The will to conquer is the first condition of victory" | Giantxc
Mar 27, 2002 8:41 AM | | Ferdinand Foch, French Field Marshal |
| Motivation cant take you far if you dont have the legs | reed
Mar 27, 2002 8:41 AM | | Lance Armstrong (from Friel's MTB Training Bible) |
| Pain is weakness leaving your body | Steve-O
Mar 27, 2002 8:59 AM | | I read that this one is a favorite of Lance Armstrong... |
| re: What's your favorite motivational technique, quote, etc.? | teb_bob
Mar 27, 2002 9:24 AM | | This one is more for raing that solo riding but it is to think to yourself that everyone else has to do this too. Works for we.
Teb |
| re: What's your favorite motivational technique, quote, etc.? | mikey2
Mar 27, 2002 10:06 AM | | heh - I am not all that motivated. |
| My all my Calvary's be Rosy Crucifixions. | mbolger
Mar 27, 2002 10:12 AM | | Henry Miller, the man dreamed about sleeping with his bike.
mat |
| That was May all my Calvary's be Rosy Crucifixions.nm | mbolger
Mar 27, 2002 10:13 AM | | . |
| Invictus-William Ernest Henly | TexasMTBr
Mar 27, 2002 10:35 AM | | The whole poem is motivational. I particularly like the part "Under the blugeonings of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed."
I also find myself repeating "I am the master of my fate, I am the Captain of my soul" towards the end of long rides.
This poem has always been one of my favorites, but Timothy McVeigh kind of gave it a bad rap using it as his final words... |
| "Together we'll wreak havoc you and me" | Pirate Girl
Mar 27, 2002 12:23 PM | | -Rufus Wainwright
That line of a song tends to go through my mind while riding.
P-) |
| I just tell myself over and over.... | Matt Foley motivational speake
Mar 27, 2002 1:10 PM | | if I don't make it up this hill I'll end up living in a van down by the river!
Hey, anyone else out there think that Tony Robbins head is just WAY to big? Two bit chump. I could motivate circles around that guy! |
| I guess I'm getting old. | KRob
Mar 27, 2002 1:21 PM | | If I'm out riding solo which is usually the case, and I'm starting to lag, I pretend I'm in a race and my fiercest rival is reeling me in. "Keep pushing, block out the pain", I say to myself. But I notice as I get older I'm more likely to say, "Who am I trying beat?" "Don't kill yourself". And if I'm climbing that long murderous hill that I only clean one out of ten tries, and legs are lead and lungs are on fire, I start having visions of an article I once read about crazed Tour De France climbers pedaling themselves dead (literally) from asphixiation. Although I doubt that's possible with the meager effort I'm making in comparison, it sometimes makes me back off. I don't race mountain bikes, yet,(Biking Viking's race recap made me want to try) but have raced off-road motorcycles for ten years, and am driven by competition, so I appreciate the input from everyone. Theme from Rocky? "Eye of the Tiger"? Whatever gets your juices going. |
| I set it in stone before I ever get on the bike | Flyer
Mar 27, 2002 2:16 PM | | "Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form, but are formless. They are skilled both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles; for they win the war in advance, defeating those that have already lost."
Sun Tzu, Chinese Warrior and Philosopher about 100 BC |
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