Pros

Seeing yourself improve is, of course, a fantastic aspect of recording technologies that helps keep you motivated – quite often because improvements are made so incrementally, you won’t notice your better fitness levels until later down the line.

Apps like Strava have also created their own communities: other users supply support as well as your next challenge.

And finally, despite the fact that no award is as effective as your own passion or your peers feedback, there’s definitely some motivation provided by those tiny little trophies… !

Indoor Training for Cyclists

Cons

It can be difficult to stay motivated if, conversely, you aren’t seeing the improvements that you’ve been hoping for on the speedometer. Lots of older people, for instance, prefer not to see their times increase as they age, but instead concentrate on how hard they feel they’ve pushed themselves.