Dr Heather McGee studies the part of training nobody can do for you: the behaviour. Her research on habit formation reframes the amateur's real problem — it's rarely a lack of the right plan, it's the failure to repeat it. The three habits of effective cyclists she's discussed on the podcast are less about physiology than about building systems that survive a busy life: consistency over intensity, identity over motivation, and structuring the environment so the right choice is the easy one. It's the psychology that turns a good plan into actual fitness.
The major positions McGee is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Dr Heather McGee on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 1 episode in total.
“It's not an information Gap it's an implementation Gap that we tend to have it's like taking that stuff and put it into action we're all very good and we love to find out the ingredients but it's turning those attentions into actions or as I like to say that information into implementation that's the part where we fall down.”
“We did a study on long-term weight management maintainers versus regainers so people that were able to maintain their weight for like 5 10 years after losing a clinically significant amount of weight versus those that maintained it for a while and then regained and what we found was that those that were most successful long term were the ones that had changed their identity.”
“If you're relying on motivation you're not going to get very far because willpower is fickle. Willpower is like a muscle right if I went to the gym for the next seven days and just train my right bicep by the time I get to disa next week I wouldn't even be able to pick up a cup of tea.”
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