I could cryptically identify him, but that's not cool. So I'm going to keep anonymity. So you need to take absolutely 100% responsibility for everything that happened you last season. So this is successes and this is failures. So I know there's a good George Washington quote that kind of springs to mind where it was something like 99% of failures come from those who have a habit of making excuses. And it's so true because when we think about, we treat stink party cities. We've the events that happens, we've how we respond to that event and that equals the outcome. We don't just have event and outcome. So you know, those who are who are prone to make an excuse as we'll say, I punctured therefore I DNF'd. They're missing the piece in the middle, which is response. you punctured, you chose to not get a wheel and chase back in, therefore you DNF'd. Or you crashed, you chose to lick your wheels and feel sorry for yourself, therefore you ended the race early. So we get to choose how we respond to events that happen. We can't control events that are going to happen to us, but we get to choose that response. So if you don't like the outcome that that you're experiencing, and so I don't know any area of your life, you get to choose your response to that outcome. So an example, like I see all the time, like, you know, have a harsh look at yourself when you're listening to this, because now is the time we're coming into the offices and the last race that it sees in those on us. You know, have a hard look at yourself and think, you know, am I at my idea body weight? You know, if you're trying in at the moment and your carrying extra pounds. Let's have a frank look at yourself right now and go, yeah, okay, I'm training three times a week. I'm following this sort of loose dietary plan that's laid down by, I think I know what I'm talking about. I think I know I need to curb load. I need to refuel. I've picked up a few tippets here and there. So you're still four kilos overweight. So you need to own this. You need to go, okay, I need to change my response. I've been given this information about this is the way to train, this is the way to eat. I've complied with that information. I've trained this way. I've gone out with the lads riding around at the weekend. I've bought all the kits, the fast wheels, the bike, but I'm still overweight and I'm still getting smoked. I'm still not a cat one rider. I'm not winning races. What's my response? Go and follow a proven system. go and work with a coach. And then you're going to have a completely different response. So it changes the dynamic. So if you don't like the outcome you're having at the moment, change your response. So because if you don't change your response, absolutely nothing is going to change. And the moment you change your response, everything changes. We've all seen races where, you know, Iliokhoye is a quick step, tour, a tour, Google that are YouTube. it. If you haven't seen it, it's one of the best finishes to a race. He crashes in the last couple of kilometers as he solo and he has a choice. That's the event. He's crashed. He slid out and he has a choice how to respond to it. And he responds by saying, you know what? I'm still ahead of the guys in the race. I had a bigger lead now with a small lead, but I'm still in a favorable position. So he puts his head down and he gets the line and he wins it. And it's a brilliant piece of commentary. It's a brilliant last couple of kilometers. It's absolutely much more much much to watch, but you can take that as a metaphor for how your training is going at the moment, because if what you're doing is yielding a set of results, unless you're cleaning up and winning every race in Ireland, unless you're at ideal weight, it cracks me to see you guys riding around. I've been there, and this is why it cracks me, because it was only the beginning of the last year when I got back, I was carrying so much weight, and it felt horrible. It felt horrible wearing a soycon kit. I didn't feel like a bike rider. I even felt horrible in my cities because they felt hoity on me. I felt uncomfortable, especially in a hot day or some shit. I felt so uncomfortable and sweaty. And it's not a nice feeling, but you need to change your response to it. You need to change and go, okay, there's objective facts out there at the moment.
We have objective facts on how to eat. I'm not gonna get into nutrition now, but there is an eating system which is objectively true. Maybe years ago, we had a lot of debate about global warming, but right now, all the top PhDs, all the top professors and scientists agree on global warming, it's happening. We're the exact same a nutrition at the moment. There's an agreed upon philosophy. People, you know, push agendas, you know, to be a vegan agenda, to be a paleo agenda, but they're agendas, they're not the way to treat philosophies which are just objectively true, and they're out there at the moment. If you seek advice on this, you can't fix your diet. Exact same way with training, We have thousands of athletes coming through our system in the last few years. They're coming out the other side with results. It's not a fluke. We've emerged for some guys, get sick, injured, whatever. But boy and large are big data. We're churning out so many athletes out the far side. When you work one on one with us or any of the top coaching companies, you work with one of the US top coaching companies, this is the outcome you get. If you go and you work with somebody who's a plumber or a painter and does a bit of coaching on the side, they're not professionals. not sitting around working and reading peer reviewed stuff all day. They don't have sports, scientists in-house. You're not going to get that. So you need to look at your response if you want to change your outcome. Like one of the big take away from me from this sort of big aha moment I had was, I remember I tried a bunch of stuff for years. Because you got to remember when I started I was a shitcat tree and then I was an equally bad I got two and then I was in equally bad cat one. I wasn't great when I went to France. And I didn't get to the States until six years into race. And I was pulling myself up from each level. But it was just before I went to France, or was I in France? I was just getting France. I was just getting kind of good that season. And it's because I found out I made a friend who wrote for Team Sky at the moment. And he basically said to me, like, what are you doing? And I've been piecing together stuff on YouTube. be piecing together stuff, you know, articles from Silicon, they were selecting weekly chat to guys in the car, a practicing on top guys, we're doing this, trying to piece together a system and it's like, oh, he's like, what are you doing? You know, there's actually just our way to do this. Like there's an objective way to do it that everybody who's a pro follows the same system and you're not following that system. Why? I was like, there's no real good answer for that. So I felt, I felt pretty shit about that. I felt shit that an angry that nobody had told me that it was this system earlier. And yeah, I was as relieved as I was disappointed when I found out about it. And so that's been kind of a mission in A1 coaching for me is to just get this system out there. And I like to say it's kind of the bloat at a moment, a cold of silence around this system and teach people that there is a system. Like if you come through, you know, the force part of the system is actually, you know, we like to get, I like to to think of it as you know if you have a super powerful engine of a super car you need a strong chassis you know you're building a house if we're going to use that analogy or a pyramid the foundation needs to be strong that foundation is stranded, stranded, like you need to go through it's small, stranded, and protocol. If you're gonna lay training on top of it like if you're just cycling what I've gone through this it's something that's just functional movement like dynamic movement range is like it's like running through a full range of motion without holding stretches and it then's building into like you know traditional inverted air quotes. Air quotes are still the easiest way to know who's not a cool guy. So traditional stuff like the squat. But you got it, this stuff has to be adapted and this is where I mean like it's this is a specific system. The stuff has to be adapted for a cyclist. You can't go down to your local gym and get your local meat head to give you a program. It doesn't work because he's not a a cyclist, like the squad has to be stuffed like, you know, heels, elevators off the floor, because that way you can get a little bit lower, yeah, ground the gym, go out and tell you that, but the toe-down motion is how we pedal.