Hello you absolutely beautiful cycling fans and welcome back to another A1 show. It's Friday and as promised I'm back with another one. We got a busy show again today guys. I'm going to talk to you about what I was doing on a tandem behind a motorbike. Yeah more will be revealed on that one. I'm going to talk to you about a few things we have gone A1 at the moment including a new website build some crazy stats on our show downloads. Other update on how my 30 day no sugar challenge is gone. I'm gonna talk to you about an obscure college professor philosophy lecturer and what he has to do with Seigland. That's a weird link and that's all coming up. We're gonna talk about Dan Martin's big transfer, Sam Bennett's tree stage wins and his criticism in the Brink Bank organizers. So that's all coming up so without forage with you. Let's pop on writing and get going with another A1 show. guys I was checking out the stats on DA1 show on on who's been listening who's been downloading the podcast it's pretty crazy so I'm gonna pull them up here just I just want to give a shout out to some people and some of the far off wrongs that are listening to their show so I'm using the podcast platform to let you break them down. Like we've got chunk of listeners in a lot in the United States, Australia, Canada, Spain, South Africa, you know Arab Emirates, Sweden, if you're from any of these, they're not mad places, there's places I wouldn't have thought that we had a following. Azerbaijan, who's listening Azerbaijan? Give me, hit me up on social, I want to talk to these people. Korea, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Switzerland, Indonesia, Slovakia, Greece, Puerto Rico, Croatia, Denmark, Mongolia, unreal stuff. The power of social media and the power of podcasts and as a platform. I'm blown away by it. I'm blown away by it. So thanks for everyone for all those downloads and fire off places. I was yesterday on the back of at hand them. Now on the front of a tandem behind a maupe, doing 65, 75k an hour at times crazy to any motorist gone past gone, what is going on here but not so crazy with a little bit of context. I've been helping out Peter Ryan a little bit, Peter is an Irish Paralympic athlete and he's trying for Tokyo. So I've raced a little bit from this year and he wants me following some of the A1 channels, we'll see him's over in Italy during the World Cup but he's off to the World Championships, I'm not going to that with them but I've just helped them out with a bit of training so we're a motor pace in yesterday which must have looked completely bizarre for any motorist gone past seeing a tandem on the back of a maupet at 65, 75 hour entail wind sections because the tandem really shifts and then you add in the maupet in front of it it even shifts more absolutely grateful and if anyone has an opportunity to ride a tandem you should definitely check that out because if you love golf fast and you love bike riding you're going to love the health and there are a couple of random things before we get into the more substantive action. A client and listener sent us in this it's called Pure Lotion with Boycurb by human performance. These guys were one of the sponsors on the Lancer Armstrong Middle Podcast. I think it's a company that Lancer Armstrong's venture capital firm has invested in and it is Pure Lotion delivers more of the more boy character but then your body naturally produces to neutralise acid, battle fatigue and reduce soreness. Haven't used it yet, this is not a sponsor in any way, just got that as present. Feel free to send me in shit and I will, if it merits a shout out and looks decent, I'll let you know how it's gone. Also, I've been using the Woop and the jury is not fully in on Woop yet, but it's close to being in and it's close to coming back as piece of shit. I'll do a full YouTube review on the Woop. There's a number of things annoying me about it, so I think it's pretty unusable and I won't be recommending that to clients for anyone to get one but you know there you go you're gonna get honest reviews. Another one I got sent in all the way from Canada. I have got roasted and berry Ontario with a couple of clients out that direction and and it's a coffee from Epic Nord Coffee. Sweet coffee, sweet, sweet coffee. Fuel your next mission. We don't just believe in working hard, playing even harder. It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where everyone in the steel mill is gay. Thanks for the coffee. Thanks for the boy, Carab. Thanks for the whoop. The coffee and the boy, Carab. Well, the boy, Carab was on test. The coffee's a winner, definitely.
The whoop, close to being a failure, but we'll see. Right, let's get into the big ticket items. My sugar challenge, how was that going? It's been her endless, it's been her endlessly heart. What am I a week? I'm close a week, I'm six days or something. Off the sugar and has it been an emotional rollercoaster. I got a clarifying to sugar because I got a lot of DMs on Twitter. And I got a couple of nutritionists concerned about demonoids and sugar, which I'm totally not the only if they take. This is the problem with headline readers. If you read a headline and you go, oh, he's off sugar for 30 days, yeah, you can demonize it. If you actually talk to the time to listen to the podcast, you know, I'm doing this really to break my personal addiction with sugar, not demonizing carbohydrates as a food group. Also, I'm getting away from added sugar and not natural sugars. You know, I'm not off fruit, I'm not off, you know, sugars that are in dates. In fact, that sort of stuff is powering me and trying it at the moment. like the Sarah's recipe about last week. Once you guys download that you can go back to the last episode if you haven't and there's a link to that recipe. It's like a parable. Great reception actually to Sarah's recipe so I might get Sarah a twister arm and get her back on to drop us another recipe on Monday's podcast. I'm thinking some sort of ooze for the bike. The balls are nice but I'm thinking something a bit ooey and I don't know maybe needs a little bit of help. maybe need a little bit of sugar free chocolate or something. I don't know. I'll see what she has. Uproslave. But so I'm off added sugar and not off all sugar because China will be very very difficult gone folky or experienced stuff like the low carb flu which guys call and stuff. But so the 30 day challenge has been hard because even though I'm getting natural sugars my body's probably getting I don't know what to say like 10% 15% of its usual sugar intake and it's struggling. I've had some real low energy days. I had a splitting headache all day today as well. I absolutely split and got up at 8 o'clock. I had to go back to bed at 11. I had a meeting in the city. I came back. I had to go to bed again after. So yeah, it's been a rough day with the headache today. But I'm hoping I'm coming out the fire so I did that. So I wanted to talk that the 30 day challenge and the Yanny Brackovich article we talked about where he came out talking about his food disorder. The two of those prompted me to just think a little bit more around food and a lot of food is an industry and actually have a blog which has gone out to our beta group around this and the huge industrial and influence and lobby group powers that are concerned in the food industry and the food is an industry and with a lot of these diets We're demonizing food and we're talking in absolutes. Like a great example is the traffic light system. Green, you can have it orange, you can have some of it red, you can't have any of it. So there's a whole list of stuff that we can't have any of. So we're putting a tag onto that food. It's red, we can't have any of it. It's bad, it's no go. It's very, very negative connotations around anything in that red list. So my problem with that is food is amazing. Food is, you know, it's a cultural experience. Food brings people together. Like I think about someone, the happiest family days we've ever had and they've all been around the Christmas dinner table or birthday dinners. It's amazing for bringing people together. But when we put tags onto food, like bad food, red list food, we attach feelings of shame, guilt, remorse. I mean, encourage things like binge eating. So I think we need to get away from that, like sort of judgment practices around food. Like the good and the bad tag. It's a very simplistic tag for a complex choice because it's not a bad food. You know, if I have a slight a cake on my birthday, that's not bad. So I shouldn't have food anxiety around that because I'm saying it's bad. Like I'll do the air comments here for anyone that's watching our Listen on podcast, the little air quotes who someone has a quote in it. agriculture is still the easiest way to see if somebody's a dickhead. True, I've just done them. It's like a cake on your birthday, it's not bad. Tobler on a Christmas is not bad. You know, having wine on a Friday to unwind after a long week of work, these things aren't inherently bad. But when we tag these things as bad, that's when those feelings kick in, the shame, the guilt, the remorse.
We set the goals because they're important, they're like our North Star, they set the direction we're going to travel. But once we've set that direction, forget about those goals and let's not give them a second thought. Now all we need to do is we need to worry about the activities that we need to perform to reach those steps and we put all our energy into those activities. So we don't stress on that goal anymore. We focus on those activities or steps or KPIs to get us to that goal. And why do we want to do that? We want to do it so we can enjoy the journey because when we think about it, the journey is all we have. The destinations actually more of a mirage. You need to enjoy the journey. You need to enjoy the training to get or order the goal is never going to happen. It's a real chicken and egg thing. If you don't enjoy the training and invest in that process, the goal is not going to happen. Conversely, if you forget about the goal and you throw yourself in and really enjoy the training, the goal is more likely to be achieved. So you're doing and we're performing that training because the universe is almost going, that's according to this theory. I'm putting you to seed or not, doesn't matter because all that really matters is, did you absolutely give yourself the activity? Do you immerse yourself in it? Did you laugh? Did you I just smiled, did you enjoy it along the way? Did you enjoy that process? And I think if I look at my side-run career and I think about it, you know, at times I definitely enjoyed it. And at times I was too focused on the goal. I was too focused on the result. I was too focused on the threshold test. I was too focused on weight, especially when I was racing abroad. You know, I raced in some amazing places all over Europe and the US and Canada. And I don't know if I really experienced that or those. don't know if I really enjoyed all those. But if I had taken this philosophy, I may have had a different outlook on it. So it's something to think about. You guys are kind of dictating the direction of the podcast and that productivity, personal development, and seems to be something that people are super interested in. And we're almost at a wrap for this week's episodes. Oh, actually, the last thing I want to talk about, I haven't even announced this. This This is, you know, I'm in the cryptocurrency, I've been for, you know, quite a few years, but there's a cryptocurrency, Tron and the CEO of Adjust and so on. He's famous for announcing the announcement. He announces that to be announcement coming up soon and that pumps the price. So that's kind of what I'm doing. I'm announcing that we will have an announcement about a China camp really soon. Yeah, I've confirmed a China camp. Some people are already aware of it. The China camp, it's going to be November. I think it's, don't have the dates off to top of my head. I think it's November 9-15 in Cambrails in Spain. It's gonna be pretty epic. It's gonna be low-keyed out. We're only gonna have max 15 people in the campsaw places are gonna fill up fast. Looking forward to it, and I will announce details once I have them fully. Guys, that's been the A1 show. It's been an action-packed show of philosophy musings, tandem pacing on the back of the motorbike, World tour, politics, and that's the way we throw down. As I said, some of you guys have been amazing at this. Guys and girls have been amazing. We don't have a show sponsor at the moment. The main thing I'm looking to do in lieu of a show sponsor is I'm asking you guys to go and check out A1 coaching, check out the packages we have. We're the largest coaching company in Europe, as far as I know at the moment. There's a reason why we have that. stayability, stickiness with our clients, ask around our clients or with us for absolutely years at the time. The service is just, it's top class, but it's something we've been able to do to work with thousands of athletes, as refined processes, build infrastructure, guarantee results. So if you know somebody who's getting ready for an event, send them a one-coachings direction and we're going to hook them up and look after them. You absolutely beautiful cycling fans. It's been a pleasure and I shall chat to you guys again on Monday. Thanks for watching and thanks for listening.