Cyclists: Don’t Ignore These Common Tight Spots

You ride for hours, pushing uphill, cruising downhill, fighting wind, chasing speed — and then you hop off the bike and wonder why your body feels wrecked.

Cycling is low-impact, sure. But let’s not pretend it’s soft on the body. Your posture on the bike is repetitive and locked in. Over time, that creates tight spots that sneak up on you — and they don’t just go away on their own.

The usual suspects:

• Hip flexors: Always shortened, always angry. Sitting on the bike for hours does to them exactly what sitting at a desk does — but worse, because now you’re adding force and repetition.

• Glutes: They’re meant to power your ride, but when they’re not firing properly (and trust me, most of the time they’re not), your lower back picks up the slack — and pays the price.

• Lower back: Not moving much on the bike, just absorbing tension. This is where the stiffness builds up silently until one day you can’t get out of bed straight.

• Neck and shoulders: That hunched-forward position? It’s wrecking your traps. You don’t notice it while riding, but when the ride ends, it hits.

What can you do?

Stretching? Sure. Strengthening? Absolutely.

But sometimes the tension is so deep, so built-in, that you need something stronger.

That’s where massage comes in.

A proper sports massage can:

• Release the overworked areas

• Wake up the lazy muscles

• Get your posture back in check

• And prevent injuries from building up quietly behind the scenes

So if you’re a cyclist and you’re skipping massage?

You’re skipping recovery. You’re skipping performance.

Don’t wait until something hurts too much to fix.

Get ahead of it. Reset your body.

Ride longer, stronger — and without that creeping tension that’s been following you home after every ride.