Hello everybody and today's podcast episode I'm gonna talk to you…
Hello everybody and today's podcast episode I'm gonna talk to you about how you can beat that old enemy laziness. Let's kill 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 and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Rowman Podcast. Hello you beautiful roadman, welcome back to another roadman podcast, thanks for joining me again today. Today I want to talk to you about a topic that I know is near and dear to your heart because every one of us suffers with this demon from time to time, it's laziness and how we can defeat that old enemy. So before I dive into the topic, please over ask you to head on over to patreon.com, just hit pause on this now. Head on over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch. Buy me the price of a point of beer once a month to say thank you for the work on the podcast. It helps the podcast become sustainable, helps us move forward and in return, you're gonna get access to our secret podcast episode. Once a month, it's my reciprocity. It's you buy me a beer. This is what I do for you on top of the regular content. Look, if you can't afford this and your toys, times are a toy for some people during covid. No hassle at all. Continue enjoying the podcast for free. But if you can afford it, I would ask you to go on over to patreon.com and make a small donation towards the health and longevity of this podcast. Guys and girls, this topic laziness, it's something that I try to weave into a lot of the podcast that I talk about and you've heard me beating this drum loads and loads of times that discipline equals freedom. That we need set to rules around their life. Because guess what? As soon as we don't have a set of rules, guess who shows up? Oh, hello, sadness. Here I am again, the dark cloud that's following me around. How did that happen? It's because you broke your own rules. The pillars, the structures you have, true trial and error that you know make you happy. If you're listening to this podcast, more than likely you're one of those people who needs that you need cycling. It's one of our pillars. For me, I speak about morning routines, evening routines, training and it's that discipline that gives me the freedom, it gives me the freedom to be happy and it gives me the freedom to build other successes in my life upon that happiness. And I talk about it all the time because I'm staring at it as I record this podcast, mantra on top of my desk, do it now, stop me procrastinating because 90% of success in cycling our life, it's just showing up. It's just being there. And when I survey at the end of the season, what separates some of our clients that just fall off the track that we have for them. They fall off this roadman journey. The roadman journey starts off on the 14 day challenge, which I plug at the end of every podcast. That's where it starts and then we bring you guys on to an eight week challenge and then we bring you up to a roadman blueprint. But sometimes some people fall off and that's just the way it is. When I look at why people fall off and why other people achieve massive success, it's Consistency, it's showing up and just getting the sessions done. Honestly, every single session you're not gonna feel good. In fact, you're actually gonna probably feel like shit most of the time. I remember when I was in Kings A and finishing off the last year of my professional qualification. I used to get home from college at like 9.30, 10 at night because I tried to get all my assignments and college work done in college so I could come home and train but some nights it would be late and then I'd have finished college after a full day in there and you know when you're on the road you're not even brilliant and probably snacking out at delis.
Walk across the city, get the bus home and then it'd be like 9.30, 10…
Walk across the city, get the bus home and then it'd be like 9.30, 10 o'clock at night. I feel like shit my legs are bloated, I'm tired and I jump on and I do my session because it's that discipline, it's that consistency that I knew would lead to success. And honestly, if you think about it and you only trained when you felt good, I've got a bulletin for you here, some breaking news. If you only train when you feel good, you're going to be shit at Saitland. You're going to be shit at whatever you choose to put your mind to. If you only practice that thing when you feel good. If you play the piano, if you're a writer, if you're a poet and you only do these things when you feel good, you're going to be shit. Do I always feel like getting this podcast out to you guys? Absolutely not. Of course not. It's five days a week. I'm going to have days where I have a headache. I'm going to have days where, you know, I've had personal issues. I'm going to have days where just everything goes wrong. You know, with tick, it's Morphy's love. I can go wrong. I will go wrong. I've recorded episodes like twice and I've lost have to come back again. But what do I do? I show up day after day after day. It's the same with anybody who gets good at anything. They get good at cycling. They get good at running. They get good at rising. It's because they show up and they push true and they overcome that daily resistance when they have a decision point, when they could take the easy way out or they could push true and overcome that resistance. They push true. I speak all the time on this podcast about trying to link commonalities of top performers, top performers from academia, from sport, from business, from research, from, you know, movie, acting, Reuters, all these. And I look for common treads, golden treads, and this is one of them, the ability to just show up. Discipline means you push through and you get things done. I remember the first time I ever started imposing discipline on myself and it was in school and I loved to play football and all I wanted to do was make a career as a professional up on me, it was my life and I'd be in the bedroom and I wanted to do well in school but I wasn't great at showing up to school a lot of time and I messed when I was in school. So I had exam papers and I had the books and I knew what I needed to do. So I'd set myself like six, seven hours and I'd have to sit in the room and I'd know so say I'm in there on a Saturday morning and I had seven hours slated study for Saturday morning and I'd be in there at first hour and And then the dialogue it started. Almost a schizophrenic dialogue on myself and it started. And I go, well, you're getting nothing done, Anthony. Like, what are you sitting here? You're getting nothing done. You may as well play football with the lads. At least you be progressing in football because you're not progressing. Your studies were just sitting here and doing nothing. But I had the discipline even at that stage because I knew from trial and error that I needed this. That I was just going to sit in that room. So I made a deal myself. I was like, I'm sitting in the room for seven hours, regardless. If I get zero done today, I'm gonna sit here for seven hours and guess what? I'm gonna show up tomorrow and I'm gonna sit here for seven hours again. And then I got to a point in my crazy schizophrenic dialogue where I was like, you know what, fuck, if I'm gonna sit here for seven hours, I may as well get something done. I may as well at least glance through this chapter because it's just insanity to sit here and do linear copy book for seven hours and I would eventually get stuff done.
Maybe I got the first day, two hours of quality worked on
Maybe I got the first day, two hours of quality worked on. Maybe the second day I got three hours of quality worked on. But I showed up every single day and it was the same when I got started in cycling. There was days when I was sick, there was days when I was injured, pushed through every single time. Like you, I don't ever wake up and want to do my morning routine. And I rarely wake up and want to jump on the bike straight away, especially here in Dublin. The weather, shiz, you know, I've got a million things I could be doing. but I wake up and I hit my morning routine every morning and I ride the bike six days a week all the time because I know these things are my support walls, they make me happy and they facilitate success in other areas of my life and I don't mean success necessarily in just a monetary perspective. I mean success with relationships, success with progress, success with personal development, success takes on many guys and many hats and it's a daily resistance that you have to the overcome to get that more new routine on. Like some days you won't perform. Honestly some days you're gonna go out trying and you're just gonna be shit. Some days you're gonna sit down to write your book and it's gonna be shit. But guess what? Just show up and do it again tomorrow. Because that's how we nail down habits. Think about a child growing up. He walks, he tries to walk, falls. Tries to walk, falls. This keeps happening over and over again. At no point does the parent go, you know what, you're just not a walker, you can't walk. Like that's why every adult walk gone around and walk, we don't give up. We show up day after day until we can eventually walk. But in other areas of our life, at some point we take failure as a sign that we should quit instead of a sign that we should just show up again tomorrow. So if you're not happy with where you're in your cycling right now, just show up Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. If you're not happy with your diet, with your weight, show up, try do the right things tomorrow. Maybe you get to lunchtime and you muck up again. Roll up the sleeves, try it again the next day. Try it again, try it again. Just like the toddler, learn and to walk and eventually you will break through and that habit will become your new standard. Well man, I love to get one just absolutely rant podcast out each week and this is my rant to you this week on how to defeat laziness. Thank you, roadman, enjoy your day and I will be back 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 you 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 the master's beginner advanced. There's meal plans shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you through 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, that's roadmancycling.com slash 14 day.