Roadman in today's podcast, I wanted to talk about mental toughness. 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, and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh, and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. roadman welcome back to another roadman cycling podcast it's coming towards the end of September it's coming towards the world road race championships it's the best one day race of the year if you're not typically a cycling fan and you only tune in for the ground tours or maybe I say you're a fair weather cycling fan one day racing is where it's at the world is where it's at we're a week away although a full preview podcast, but just something that's kind of growing in my gears at the moment, it's just, you know, an apology for the bad language. It's just how many fucking soft people there are out there. And there's so many people that as soon as they find any sort of resistance, they take that resistance as a sign that they should quit, that what they're doing is wrong, that they're going in the wrong direction. Actually, you know what, before I launch into this, because this is going to be a bit of a rant podcast before I launch into this one. It's going to be a short and sweet rant. Just let me remind you about your own. We're heading off to your own. It's the 17th of October. All the details are up on roadmansoyclan.com forward slash your own. I'm going to say I think there's two places left on the camp and they're going to go fast. So check it out. If you have always wanted a ride, I'm just really excited to show people around because your own is a place I've been going back to for 10 years and I love it so I'm excited to show people my favorite roots, my favorite coffee shops, you know maybe get out trying them with some buddies from over there. I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be epic. So yeah, check out rawmancycling.com slash jorona. I'll try one in the description below. Yeah, there's a group of people out there that anytime they see any resistance, they think, okay, now it's time to quit. Resistance means it's time to quit. And I'm seeing this in cycle. I'm seeing it in order of stuff and that's why I want to have a a little bit of a rant about it. Because I think it's easier now than ever in the history of time to be great at something. The competition is so poor at the moment. Everybody's so distracted on social media on Netflix. The hunger's not there. You're not competing against the same number of participants in this game anymore. Whether it's the game is so excellent, whether the game is excelling in your career, whether it gains financial accumulation, whether the game is trying to hook up with your perfect partner. You're just not competing with the same amount of proper active participants in any of these markets. 90% of this is full of losers who anytime they see any resistance they just pack it in. They take whatever that is, if it's your, if you want to refer to it as the boy grace and what we all love, but what are its finance law, medicine, whatever your field, it doesn't matter. There's now a group of participants in the field that quit the moment stuff gets hard. They see resistance as a signed issue quit. Resistance is not that. Resistance is a sign that you're going in the right direction. There's a famous stoic saying, the obstacle is the way. And Ryan Holiday turned that into a brilliant book about stoicism. Now listen to how simple that phrase is, the obstacle is the way. The thing you're fighting doing, the thing you're saying, oh sure I sure I'm not. That's the thing you absolutely should be doing. Like you don't get any resistance from the shit stuff that you shouldn't be doing. The bad food, the late nights, Netflix, flicking on Twitter for hours. There's no resistance there. It's easy to do that shit. When you do something hard that you don't want to do, you're building a discipline muscle and it gets stronger the more you exercise it. David Goggins caused this calloused mind. And at Roadman, I've got these little stickers made up. I actually must start getting these, I figured I had to get these stickers out to someone listeners. I stuck it on the back of my phone. I just says Roadman do hard things because do hard things as we call them a little bit of a man mantra in roadman Listen to that again do hard things listen to it and live it do fucking hard things every day folks My motivation for riding the bike. It's not just to get fast on a bike. Sure. Maybe at one point it was to get fast on a bike I'm training, I'm training my mind for life, I'm training my mind to go out on the bike when I don't want to go on the bike, to cast a mind. So in times in my life when I encounter hard times, which I invariably will, when I encounter difficult tasks, which I have to come true, that I have a calloused mind that I won't give up, I won't give in and I'll be able to break through to the other side of that. Because I fucking promise you folks, on the other side of doing hard things, that's greatness. There is greatness on the fireside of doing her tings. And that's the road to get there. Roadmen, ride safe. Thanks for listening to my rant and I'm going to chat to you again tomorrow. Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge. It's a challenge called a 14 day kickstart challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making faster and making you the leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans regardless of what your level is. There's masters, beginner, advanced. There's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you true at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmansoycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio at romancycling.com slash 14 day.