One little trick saved me years and years of productivity
This one little trick saved me years and years of productivity. I applied to Saiklyn and I've applied it to every other area in my life. I'm gonna break it down and tell you exactly what it is in this podcast. The big question is this. How do we use Saiklyn as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our longevity? That is the question. This podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh. and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. Roadman! Welcome back to another Roadman podcast. How did everybody enjoy yesterday's Genesis episodes, our first ever episode of our short-form Roadman Boits. This is another one of the Roadman Boits. Their main feature land podcast is going to be on Wednesdays. this podcast, it's short, it's five to 10 minutes maximum in length. Sometimes I don't know, it only be 60 seconds. The goal of this podcast is to give you one tangible action point per podcast. So I this kind of aha moment when somebody was talking to me about bacon and they were saying okay well first you do this and then you do this and then you do this and it was systemized, it was step by step. It was like a framework for exactly what I had to do to make the bar and I thought, that's what I need. That's what everybody's listening to the podcast needs. That's what we need a step by step. Okay, what do I do next? What's important next? What's important next? Rather than just, you know, I listen to some of the podcasts and there's like 50 good ideas and then you're like left at the end of it going, oh shit, which one at all do I start with? So that is the kind of Nexus of what the podcast is about and today I want to tell you a short story I call it the who not the hell now I spoke yesterday's podcast about when I got started in psychs when it was this really Long drawn out game a trial and error basically what it looked like was I would start off I would make a bunch of progress, but then I'd hit a stumbling block the stumbling block could have been Nutrition it could have been core strength as the case of this story So I'd get to a point like core strength and I'd go, okay, core is important. I'm starting to get some back pain. I'm starting to get some stability issues on the bike. And what I would do is I would go off and I'd learn about it. I would find as many books as I could. I would find as many videos as I could. I'd learn all around the subject. And then I'd try and write myself a core training plan. I'd say, okay, well, I need these superman things. I need these planks. I need to get a stability ball. And then I'd go second guessing, well, how many times a week should I do it? How many times a day should I do it? So that was my pathway for progress. I'd start off, make progress, hit a stumbling block, and then I'd take time out and go and learn. But of course, when I was learning what wasn't happening, I wasn't progressing anymore. And then one noise, I had this kind of eureka moment. I was up late at night. I can remember it vividly.
Was in Canada. It was coming into time to go back, trying to, I was…
I was in Canada. It was coming into time to go back, trying to, I was probably back, structured, trying to like a week or two. in October, real chilly night over in Canada. I was on the laptop on my bed and I was researching this core training routine that I knew would have needed for myself because I knew this was a big limiter for me at the moment. I was scrolling through it and then I seen an ad for a strength and conditioning coach on Facebook and more he was a cycling specific strength and conditioning coach and I thought ah the hook, whatever it was, it just caught my attention and stopped me in my tracks and I thought oh that's interesting. I clicked in the ad and it was a contact me button. I contacted him. I explained exactly what I was trying to do. You know I'm a full time cyclist. I'm trying to make it as a pro. I'm struggling with some core issues. Here's my threshold. All this stuff. He came back to me like instantly almost. He must have been lying and he said yeah no problem. I can do that for you. Fifty dollars. And I was like uh okay and he's like paying me when it's done. Went to bed, talked no more of it. The the next morning I woke up and it was done. He'd sent me the core training plan. I gave him the $50 and it was unbelievable. It was a better core training plan than I could have come up with if I had to take in the next six months of my life, put my entire life on pause and studied nothing only core training and core training philosophies. It was an unbelievable core training plan. And that got me to thinking about the pathway shouldn't be start off progress stumbling block go learn the pathway should be start off progress stumbling block and then ask the question who can I talk to navigate around this stumbling block. So too many you guys you're trying to solve the question how do I figure this out when you should be asking who you should be asking who not how who knows this answer. I've taken this philosophy and I've applied it into my cycling, I've applied it into all aspects of my training, but I've applied it into life at large and it works absolutely phenomenal. When you hit a stumbling block with your stuff, ask yourself, who knows the answer? Who knows the answer? What experts can I lead on? Who knows cycling coaching principles? Who knows nutrition? Who knows strength and conditioning? In life, who knows how to fix relationships? Who knows how to, you know, broker deals? Who knows how to project manage, find out to who. On that note, this podcast, as you know, it's a very, it's a very flu-ting. We're finding our feet and we're all grown in this together. I've had a lot of feedback from guys and it's always questions around. Say when I had Pete Stett and Ted King on the podcast and gravel, they're like, what horrors would you recommend? Get a bunch of DMs every week, like, oh, I'm thinking again, a bike. What bike would you recommend? What people here me talking about? Biohacks. They're like, well, what sleep mask would you recommend? What head plugs would you recommend? What are your phones you use out training?
It's not that I get tired answering these questions
And it's not that I get tired answering these questions. I definitely don't keep them common. But what I'm going to try and do is create a master database, a resources database of what I use and what I recommend. I get to test a bunch of stuff, people send me stuff. I test it. sometimes if it's good to tell you about it, sometimes I just never mention it. But what I'm going to do is create this master database where you're going to go in and you can have a look. No charges, I'm just going to create it because we're all on this journey together and you guys can feed it back into me and say, you know what, I tested this, I tested that and that was good and I can add them into the database and it can be just this fluid document that keeps growing and growing and growing. So I'm going to try and get the head down and create it this week. I'll probably initially start off with like equipment I recommend, kit I recommend. And it's just because I've road tested this stuff. And as I said, I don't claim to be here as the master on the hill. Like I'm a humble student on this journey, which you guys, but if I'm a couple of chapters ahead and I can short circuit this trial and error game for you, that's what I want to do. So this resource is section, it's going to have a bunch of sections in it. Like equipment, bikes, case, yada yada yada. you will hear more about it in upcoming podcasts. But I think it's gonna be super helpful because I know there's just a problem with the moment, isn't we've done enough information like when I started out, it's we've too much information and too many conflicting marketing sources all compete and say, oh yeah, my thing's absolutely unbelievable. And then you get it and it's completely crap. So that's what I wanna avoid. But guys, that's for another day. The takeaway message from this podcast is When you get stuck, ask yourself, who can help me navigate around this problem? Not, how do I solve this problem? Thanks for listening, roadman. And tomorrow is Wednesday, so I will be back with our full length featured roadman podcast that you're used to listening to. Bye now. Thanks for listening, and I'm gonna chat to you all again tomorrow. If you're enjoying these daily tips from the roadman podcast, I would ask you to take one second and head over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony under skull watch. That's the place you can go and you can say I'm getting a lot out of these tips Anthony's bringing me. I'm getting really actionable tangible points that are bringing me from where I am closer to my destination every day and I'd like to buy my beer. I'd like to buy my coffee to say thanks for that. Patreon is the place you can do it. It might seem like a small little gesture for you, but for me it does two things. It gives me vindication, it gives me feedback that we're on the right road, that we're heading the right direction, that the content is valuable to you and that helps sustain this podcast. It helps me bring you this podcast every single weekday. Thank you, all men, and I'm going to talk to you again tomorrow.