Roadman, today I'm gonna give some advice to my younger self. Let's cure that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our longevity? That is the question on this podcast, we'll give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. Roadman! Welcome back, Roadman! To another week, to another Roadman Cycling Podcast. I hope this audio finds you well. You're in good spirits and ready to tackle the week ahead. Recently I was reading a book, you might have read it, it's Tony Robbins, Money Master the Game. The concept of it is Tony Robbins, the, you know, the motivational speaker to go out with with a huge jaw from the Simpsons. That's how I remember him. Anyway, Tony Robbins has built himself such a huge platform of amazing leverage. So he decided to use this leverage and reach back out to the 10 most prominent Wall Street fund managers. And he poses one question to all these Wall Street financial gods. He says, if you couldn't leave any of your financial assets, if you couldn't leave any cash, any property, any stocks, anything like this to your children, all you could leave them with was one piece of advice. What would that piece of advice be? And that's the premise of the book and it teaches you, you know, their secrets to managing wealth. But it got me tinking. I don't have any children, but did I know of? But I got me tinking that if I could only give myself three tips now to my younger self when I was starting out cycling, what would those tips be? So that's what I wanna talk about today. But folks, before I get going, I would ask you to kindly head on over to Patreon, the secret podcast, it's secret podcast time of the month again, that's just about to get dropped for all our patreons. So that's gonna be my members-only podcast that ask me anything where I give access to my very best bits, my tricks, my insight hacks, my tips, it all goes to the Patreon. So if you wanna get that access to it, It's over on patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch and I suppose appealing to your sensitivities is a double bang reason to subscribe this month because there's so much hustle has gone into the summit it's roadman summit.com it's a completely free event that I'm trying for all you guys the listeners and the wider public so I'd ask you to help me spread the awareness of that one so just get that URL roadman summit.com put it into your cycling WhatsApp groups your Facebook groups and let people know I'm bringing together 30 of unbelievable speakers from the world of professional cycling. I'm bringing not together just the front of the house that you normally see like the riders. I'm bringing together the background team. I'm bringing their physios, their dieticians, their strength condition coaches, everything. And over the course of two days, I'm going to tackle the idea of optimising performance from 30 different angles. It's absolutely epic. It's one of the best events, if I do impartially say so myself, it's one of the best events I've seen put together for free for cycling so I'm really excited about that. The link to get your free ticker for that is in the boyo as well down below. Okay get on to these three nuggets of advice that I would give my younger self. The first one I think it's balance and you know what a sexy word Anthony, balance. But cycling in all seriousness it can take over your life and finding the right spot and the right level of commitment where cycling is a tool at the outset or intro we play every single day. It's cycling as a tool for health, happiness and longevity and it's finding the place where cycling complements your life and makes other areas of your life stronger. Example, like your relationship with your husband, their wife or partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever. So if you go out and you ride for six hours, seven days a week, you're going to come home and you're going to become that's obviously an extreme example and I don't suppose many of you are doing that, that but just to highlight my point. If you ride for six hours or seven days a week and you come home, you're going to be spent, you're going to be miserable, you're going to be just in full-on recovery mode for the next day.