It won’t come as a surprise that even professional riders, whose careers often depend on their race results, find it difficult to maintain the motivation to train. And that’s simply because effective training can be really tough.
It doesn’t help either, that the fitter you are, and the more advanced you are as an athlete, the harder it is to keep making progress. It’s the simple law of diminishing returns.
And when progress stalls, the desire to jump on a static bike and do a painful high-intensity interval session can be too much to bear. Factor in driving to the gym or other friction points and the next thing
