Welcome and Girona camp announcement
Roadman, I want to talk about 5 things that I wish I knew in my 20s. Let's cue that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness, and our long changes? That is the question. This podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh, and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. Roleman, welcome back to another Roleman Cycling Podcast. Today I want to talk about 5 things that I wish I knew in my 20s. Roleman, before I do that, I am mad excited. You've heard me if you've followed a podcast talking literally at Nauseum about my favourite place in the world to ride a bicycle and that is Gerona. It does just all the pros live out there. They can live anywhere in the world they want and they choose to live there. Armstrong was the initial guy they got credit for in the US post the guys came and then there's generations, David Miller, Mike Barry, all those guys settled out there and now I think there's something like 200 pros living there. It's phenomenal for a very terrain, to restaurants, to iconic climbs, everything. Anyway, I'm spelt known. Why I'm super excited is I finally decided to bring back roadman training camps. Roadman training camps, they were a feature in the previous iteration of the coaching company when I called it A1 coaching. And I stopped them probably in 2017. It used to do two or three a year. Haven't done one since. I always thought, you know, they're more hassle than they're worked, but I really, really missed them. So I'm excited to tell you this common October, I'm gonna bring back a roadman camp It's going to journa! Stay tuned this week. I'm going to have more details. Booking a villa at the moment. Places on are going to be pretty limited. So, going to have a little bit of a fastest finger forest on getting into the camp. Details, they're coming later in the week. So stay tuned for that one. Today I want to talk to you about five things that I wish I knew in my 20s. We have that all saying that we never regret the things we did. We only regret the things we don't did. We don't, we don't do it, great English Anthony, the things we don't do. So I want to just talk about some of my musings of stuff I knew in my 20s. Right now, this is number one in case you're keeping count of the five, in case I ramble onto age or possibly three. Right now I pay for our mentors, I pay for advice all the time, whether it's anything from a strength in addition into business advice, to specific advice on an aspect of business. I hire cultures, I hire mentors, I buy courses, non-stop, it's my biggest expenditure of bearing on. If I'm looking for an expert, I was getting started in cold therapy. So I reached out to an expert, breed with Nile, and he taught me all about it. He showed me breeding techniques. He showed me immersive cold techniques. He schooled me on it.
Coaching, focus, and strength training regrets
And the stuff he taught me would have taken me just so long to figure out myself. and I probably wouldn't have figured out half of it. But in my 20s, I taught the only way to learn was self-experimentation. So I definitely wasted a lot of time on trial and error. So if you're in your 20s now, this is kind of a cycling coaching one I'm thinking of here because I spent so much time swinging punches in the dark when I came to cycling, coaching and what training I should do. And I was kind of on the cycling weekly training plan where I'd try something for a few weeks because I read it in cycling weekly, see if that had an effect, and then so I can weekly bring out a new article and I bounce over to that and end up doing that for a few weeks and I never seen any results. I didn't know you could just go to a coaching company and have them figure out all your training for you. So if you're on the fence for coaching, drop us an email and find the contact details on roadmancileclim.com, drop us an email and we'll get you started on that. Another second mistake I made was doing too many things at once. I was always balancing multiple projects. So like at one point I was trying to build an app, Pocket Coach, so we were trying to raise VC, Capital and Silicon Valley. I was trying to grow A1 coaching. I had this idea that I could get up to 10,000 clients, believe it or not. It was insane. Then I was also building an event pre-registration platform. That was all at one time. While trying to balance training, while trying to balance a social life, it was too many things going on at once. I wish, I knew in my twenties, that I should troll myself into project A until completion, either until it made it or until it went bust and then move on to the next project rather than trying to run them all at the same time. Hot take number three. I wish I participated in some form of strength and conditioning all the way through my 20s. I excluded strength and conditioning. The research was still out on whether strength and conditioning should be part of a cycling program. A, that is completely conclusive now. You need to be doing strength and conditioning as part of your cycling training. But B, you're just missing a trick if you're not the owner for just general health because cycling training alone isn't going to make you strong. It's not going to make you robust to hitting the deck. It's not going to give you that lean body mass, which will mean you can tolerate a higher base metabolic rate each day, which means you can eat more each day so you don't have to walk around perpetually hungry for the rest of your life. So strength and conditioning training is the key to getting that metabolic rate up because you need more calories to support more lean muscle mass. I wish I knew that. I really wish I knew that.
Beginner mindset and 8-week challenge
That would have saved me some long, hungry days as a 20 year old getting into cycling. Number four, I wish I embraced the beginner mindset a bit more. I was always good at sports. You know, before I was a cyclist, I played football, won all Orleans football, hemeans and super leagues with them, their League of Orleans team here in Ireland. So I always see myself as the athlete and then when I got into cycling, obviously I progressed quite fast. But because of that and because of myself image as an athlete, I seldom put myself into uncomfortable situations. I'll give you an example, I didn't take up yoga or anything in my 20s because I didn't put myself into those uncomfortable situations because I wasn't comfortable being a beginner. And all the growth is in that awkward feeling like you don't even belong phase so I wish I'll true myself into that more and finally the bit on the cheek I wish I bought Bitcoin. Who doesn't wish they could travel back and buy Bitcoin? Roadman, thanks for listening to my random five musings on things I wish I'd done in my 20s. Drop me a message over on Instagram it's roadman.s icon and let me know what you wish you'd done in your 20s. Like review the podcast all those good things and stay tuned this week because I'll be giving you more details on the gerona training camp. Roadman, thank you for listening and I'll be back to you again tomorrow. Okay, stop what you're doing, it's Anthony again. I want to talk to you for one second about the next step in the roadman journey. I'm laying down a challenge for you, it's called the eight week challenge. So for eight weeks, I'm challenging you to be the very best version yourself, whatever that is. For eight weeks I want to take you under my wing and I want to personally build for you a customized training plan on our analytics platform. This plan is going to be laser focused on your goal and I'm going to navigate around your life, your work, your social commitments so don't worry about what your circumstances are right now. I remember after I took some time out of cycling and went off and taught I was a really big business man. I came back and I realized I wanted to get into cycling but But I knew after a bit, to try it on a loan, it actually wasn't making me any fitter. I needed an entire system, it needed a 360 overhaul. So for the first time ever, I want to share with you this exact system I used to get back in shape. I'm talking stuff like I'm going to give you my morning routines, the cold therapy I used, the cookbooks and recipes I used, and even the motivational audios by listening to get back on track. So right now what I want you to do is pause this audio, go to www.roadmancycling.com forward slash eight week or check out the link in the bio, click that. So one more time it's roadmancycling.com forward slash eight week. Chatty also.