This year has been going really well so far. I’ve hit my workouts well, had some all time power PRs, my FTP is nearly at my best ever but I’m running out of mental steam and want to poll the forum hive mind as the best way to refresh myself and get back on track. I don’t really have any goals or eve…

It varies, but it seems about once a year I get burned out. Coincidentally, this time started a week ago. Things had been going well. I was doing a lot of riding and made some good upgrades to the bikes and shop area. Then, out of the blue, I started out on a fairly tough mtb ride and instead of l…

YMMV, but I can’t train without a goal. So pick a goal to work towards no matter what it is (race, KOM, Fondo, cycling vacation, new bike, etc). Take a break 1-2 weeks then set your goal months out. Allow yourself to build slowly towards this goal.

Just do some fun outdoor riding for a little while. I was in a similar boat after a long winter on the east coast. I’ve been doing unstructured MTB rides outdoors for the last 3 weeks and it’s been glorious.

Seems like this is going around right now, a lot of people burned out. I wonder if this is a symptom of everyone’s rising obsession with keeping their FTP prediction high. You probably didn’t see it so I’m just reposting something I wrote in a similar thread to someone else. Read below… Buddy I h…

I’m the type that driven by goals. I only participate in a couple of events a year and those tend to keep my mind sharp throughout the training blocks. Of course there are times where I’m feeling a bit down and fatigued, but that’s usually tied to poor nutrition, particularly during z2 rides, that…

I feel like I’m kind of in the same boat as you. I still enjoy riding my bike, and I actually still enjoy doing structured workouts, but I’m losing the mental fortitude to continuously dig deep for a Very Hard workout. For me right now it just doesn’t feel worth the effort to bury myself that much t…

[image] pirnie: 100% of my riding is indoors now because life doesn’t allow otherwise. Can you swap 4x1h indoors with 4x0.5h outdoors for a week, ‘just ride’? Maybe make that your recovery week routine. [image] pirnie: I just don’t have the mental “spoons” for the hard efforts being pres…

I came here to post this exact feeling. I’m in Chicago, I’ve been indoors on the trainer since the end of October, and I was about to post “am I actually fatigued or am I just literally sick of being on the trainer??”. I think I’m just sick of the trainer. I had a sweet spot workout today, I totally…

Feeling burned out - what would you do?

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Take a week off the bike and use that time to optimize nutrition and sleep.

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