In the busy lives that people are living nowadays, there is less and less time for hobbies or sports activities. On the other hand, if you are not moving forward in your life and not developing yourself, then actually you are moving back.

That’s why to somehow satisfy these two needs, passion for cycling and the need for self-improvement and constant learning, I found a nice way of combining them both. Namely, I bought a stationary cycling trainer and installed one of my bikes there. Next to it, I set up an old laptop with a spare monitor to complete my ‘cycling and learning’ station.

Right now, no matter the weather outside and the time of the day, I can cycle on my bike whenever I want and as much I want. While at the same time I’m watching various courses online. Google Tag Manager, BigQuery, Google Data Studio, you name it. Thankfully body position on a bike and the nature of the activity (where the upper body is not much engaged and pretty stable) allows for pretty comfortable watching, especially when compared with other sports activities. Some would select Netflix, others random YouTube videos, while I decided to dedicate that time to my self-development. And I’m pretty happy with the results of my approach.

Calories are being burned and brain cells are being exercised!