Cycling EVERYDAY For 30 Days

This is the 30 Day Cycling Challenge. I cycled every day for thirty days on an indoor cycle for a total of over 2000K, over 2 hours per day on average, with pretty great results in terms of body transformation, considering I was not holding back on my diet at all.

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this is a 30-day cycling challenge before i started this we were only about a month and a half into a new year and you know i wasn’t really in the best shape of my life since gyms closed christmas food and winter just making me hungry for a lack of hibernation it’s safe to say i was not as low in body fat as with my last sports challenge the swimming challenge for 30 days last year i also got bombarded by the youtube algorithm with a lot of videos about people’s resolutions and workout challenges and i was just thinking to myself where are you trying to tell me youtube and then because of sheer peer pressure i’m kidding of course kind of i thought why wouldn’t i try a sports challenge again myself and i happen to have this fine piece of equipment here this um 15 year old cheap ass workout bike that is obviously not in the best shape of its life anymore but i figured what the hell let’s just psych a lot for a month and see what happens [Music] so the goal of this video is cycle for 30 days to try and get in better shape and basically try to shred down the rules are maintaining my normal diet to isolate the effects of the cycling as much as possible because i want to see what the effects are of just cycling on my body also never skip a day and the end goal is obviously also to become faster and stronger and build some more endurance and cycling as well my personal kind of arbitrary goal is 2 000 kilometers which is roughly the distance from berlin to madrid or almost the distance from new york to miami which seems like a lot but we’ll see how it goes so for the next 30 days i’ll be cycling hours on this old bike every day and see what the results are so this is a starting point at day one and then i just started a little cycle on the first day this is day two the challenge i’m now 48 kilometers and about 90 minutes that’s the first 50 kilometer session that i’ve done keep going for a little bit maybe go slightly past the 50 kilometer mark and then do second smaller session later in the day so i ended up doing 100 kilometers on that second day which was a mistake i wasn’t used to doing any cycling whatsoever before this challenge so something i hadn’t accounted for was just sitting on a saddle for that long my butt hurt my muscles were also pretty fatigued pretty easily after those first hundred kilometers so yeah just took it a little easier two days after that and then from there on i just gradually start increasing the distance again i got a total in of just under 500 kilometers in that first week so yeah i’m pretty happy on to week two now the hardest part of this challenge is the monotony this stuff gets boring really quickly after first 10 days i found a system to get me through to cycles a little bit easier the system consists of watching netflix learning swedish because i’m also doing that challenge at the same time or just jamming to some music those three things were the main things to keep my mind busy and get me through the monotony basically also you might be wondering why i’m not cycling outside instead of on that rink eating thing that’s because there’s a lot of snow and ice during this time and i just want to keep the activity like uniform so that the metrics actually make sense because there’s a big difference between cycling outside and cycling indoor on that thing that i’m standing there in terms of difficulty it’s just harder to cycle outside and i just want everything that kind of makes sense so i just stick to one activity i’m at day 16 now challenge i’ve clocked in about 1 150 kilometers so far yeah my legs are really sore because i did 130 kilometers which was the biggest session so far so today i’m just going to take a little easier yeah just going to keep going so to go a little bit more into detail about the food situation i just have a regular diet in the morning i’ll usually have some milk with cornflakes or some porridge and two more regular meals throughout the day in terms of macro split to something like 40 30 30 protein carbs fats and i don’t really skip out on any snacks either so i’ll have three meals in a day and one to two snacks a day as well throughout the month there were about three occasions where i had some alcohol as well where my friends and i were just meeting up online and just catching up and stuff so yeah i have a rough guess of what i usually consume every day it’s something between two and three thousand calories often just depending on how hungry i am and that is directly tied to how much i cycle during that day i’m struggling quite a bit right now with motivation my legs are just super tired i don’t know why this is the first time ever since the first couple days that i really feel like i need a little bit more rest because i’ve been going every day but that reminds me of this quote that i’ve had in my mind true discipline and commitment is only known on the days where you’re not feeling up to it that’s where you actually make the difference that’s where you will show that you’re actually committed so i’m just going to do that stay committed stay disciplined and still get in i don’t know 75 kilometers or something today and then follow the day all right here we go [Music] but i just kept cycling for the remainder of week three and week four fairly consistently which leads me to the end of four weeks 28 days just to give a little overview so far this is what i cycled in the first week i cycled about 500 kilometers in the second week i cycled 540 kilometers in the third week 550 and in the fourth week 565. all right the last two days start now i’m up at 2150 kilometers now i kind of want to end with a nice round number so i was thinking like what if i can make it to 2500 but that would mean that i have to do 350 kilometers in two days where my legs are already tired i did 104 kilometers yesterday i did about 90 something the day before 150 is more than that’s more than the maximum that i’ve done so far i would try to do 150 today and then 200 tomorrow i’m not sure this is a good idea i’m not sure if i’m gonna be able to actually do that but that’s worth a try i guess my legs are yeah are just going to be mashed by the end of this but hey part of the challenge right [Music] [Applause] i just finished a 150k i don’t know what’s gonna happen tomorrow because like my legs are already pretty much dead now tomorrow i have to do another 50k on top of this so it was at this moment that he knew he [ __ ] up we’ll see how that goes i think i feel a cramp coming up right now in my leg so time to take a shower and stretch [Music] [Applause] done about 75 minutes now around 50k into the cycle which means another 150k ago just as i predicted my legs are absolutely killing me just did the first 100 kilometers as you can see i’m on track [Music] i’m down to the last 33 kilometers that’s really starting at hard now my legs are tired but legs aren’t really the issue i put down some socks and some uh sweatpants underneath my butt cause my butt definitely the problem everything uh it’s just really uncomfortable about an hour left and it’s over last hundred there we are done okay after cycling that much in the last two days here’s what the final stats are i cycled 2 500 kilometers cycled about 65 hours in total for about 2 hours and 10 minutes every day on average i increased my average pace from around 32 to 35 kilometers to 40 to 45 kilometers an hour so an increase of around 30 there and endurance and speed and this is what the visual results are at the end of these 30 days i lost about 3 kilograms which is not a lot but that is mainly because i didn’t pay attention to changing my diet to something healthier but it shows that just exercising and maintaining your diet does have quite a big influence on your results in the end my body fat level dropped with about two percent as well so this was a great challenge but i’m not going to touch that bike for a while now because i’m actually sick of cycling now the most important part for me aren’t the metrics either it’s more than i consistently put the work in and completed another 30 day challenge without skipping a day it just builds you up and it kind of proves to yourself that you can actually stick to something and you have some discipline and that just i don’t know makes you feel good oh and also buy padded shorts if you’re ever going to do cycling my brother pointed this out to me at the end of the challenge and i could have just slapped myself because i didn’t think of this sooner and i was in pain so much during these 30 days anyways that was it for the 30 day cycling challenge i hope you enjoyed it and let me know if you have any experience with cycling in general or doing a challenge like this also be sure to let me know what challenge i should try out next in terms of sports challenges that will really help me out a lot to get like inspiration and stuff anyways thanks for watching and hope to see you again next video i appreciate ya 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