Specific adaptation period of about eight weeks, then we're looking at about one to two week taper, and then we're looking for peaking for your a priority race. So the sort of training philosophies we've traditionally seen have dictated that you'd ride for endless errors during base periods to develop an aerobic base or stuff goes on here like, you know, building aerobic efficiency, increase mitochondria development. The problem I found, and I found with our athletes is, this is very problematic. It's especially problematic for people living in cooler climates with daylight savings because the time we're being asked to ride the longest, the highest volume is the time of year when weather is worst and daylight hours are very, very limited. So in recent years what we've tried to push and advocate, it's a front-loaded periodization. So it's a break from traditional thinking. A lot of the more, you know, newer coaches, the more enlightened coaches are gone with front-loaded periodization or reverse periodization structures. It's basically turning conventional wisdom on its head and it's taxing the upper training zones in the cycle forest. While you're hooked onto this among some of the great data on it, it's brilliant for time-run cyclists because you don't have to ride those endless kilometers in the dark and in the cold. So we're focusing on those physiological systems. If you If you haven't, if you don't want to talk about physiological systems, you need to go back to two podcasts to go and check that one out, where we talk about physiological systems, what zones to try and employ, we're trying to end those zones. So there's a theory of say we want to improve threshold. There's two ways of improving threshold. We can try and just below threshold and push threshold up, or we can try and just above it and pull it up. So that's what this is kind of about, this front load of periodization. focusing on physiological systems on a top-down basis and we're trying to pull each them up. So this has a potential to elicit great training benefits, huge adaptations and the data looks a lot better in the bottom up structure plus for us it has that extra extra benefit of not doing super long hours and really cold and miserable weathers. So it's really what I'm trying to do with this guys I'm trying to challenge those all beliefs all the time. I'm trying to bring you guys the latest research, especially when it's around time crunch and we're trying to balance other stuff. It's a little bit of the ethos of the podcast as well where I think they're so interchangeable to say that you're just a cycling coach, like non-hate-word holistic, so I'm not going to use it. But the cycling doesn't happen in a vacuum around no family, no job. So the goal of the podcast is going to be to bring you productivity hacks, It's going to be to bring yourself development stuff. It's going to be going to bring in that all-encompassent 360 athletes There see where I got around saying holistic 360 athletes, you know, seven years and college weren't wasted a little bit of verbal acrobatics to get around it so Do you guys know where you are in this cycle? Are you in base build? specific taper or race? So you need to be sitting down at the start of the year and like as I said, I'm gonna try and build some, not gonna try, I've started building it so I definitely will launch it. You're gonna have solid details on this eight-week challenge that's coming up on the next podcast episode on Friday and you're gonna have solid details on what the eight-week challenge is then but it's not too late now for us to jump into a specific block, denry taper, denry race and it'll so you guys will start to understand why you were in certain blocks, what the training demands are, what zones we use in this block and you know for an athlete I love the stadium coming in for 12 months getting all this knowledge, taking the knowledge and going to apply in themselves like so like if you look around or in the UK so many of the coaches that are coaching individually now they've come through you know A1 other as athletes or as coaches themselves They're learning this stuff and then they're going off and applying it. I'm brilliant, more prioritized. So that's my goal for you guys. It's come in, learn this stuff as an athlete, learn it as a coach, and then go off and spread the good word because there's a right way to do stuff and there's a wrong way to do stuff. So there you go, rant over on that one. Yeah, as I say, guys, a lot of the stuff I'm trying to do on this, it's the combination of the sport, it's a combination of the productivity and it's the combination of the personal development.
So a A lot of times you're going to hear me talking about, you know, books I've been reading this week, which I've found particularly good or new apps or tools, which I'm finding good. The reason being that when I'm going well off the bike, I'm going well on the bike. They don't happen in a vacuum. For me, when I can nail one part, it has this knock on momentum effect to the rest of my life. I'm not sure if you guys find out the exact same, but it's something I've noticed as a trend between our clients and something I've noticed. You do get, you know, okay, it's it's defined and what you think has gone well. You know, you get the guys who are absolutely go all in, but it's not sustainable. We're looking for sustainable. We're looking, you know, for the guy who can win races all season for season after season, who can also thrive in his career, thrive in his family, thrive at new hobbies and interests, great social circle, it's possible, it's very possible. But a lot of these little tips and tricks and, you know, there's a good quote I think, learn from mistakes, but you should always learn from mistakes, but they don't have to be your mistakes. Like I love that one. So that's essentially what I said up a one to be, it took me ages to figure out what I was doing. I went down so many dark alleys and learned so many lessons. When I got to the end of the lesson or the laneway, I said to myself, shit, if I knew that six months ago would have saved me a lot of time. I've been running down those alleys and so have the other coaches ever since and we've put together those lessons and that's effectively what you guys are getting. I'm reading the book at the moment called the checklist manifesto and it's absolutely brilliant. It's brilliant in its simplicity. It's exactly what it sounds like. It's the power of checklists and why you should use checklists and they talked about, there was an airplane they brought in during the Second World War and the airplane was so complex that when they went to demo it was a Boeing airplane, when they went with demo it their most experienced pilot crashed it and he died and the military US military said you know this isn't it's too complicated there's four engines on it were previously they only had two engines on these plans and There was too many things to remember and the military relegated and said you know what? It could turn the war, but it won't run the war because we're not going to be able to get toilets skilled enough to flood us. Anyway, rogue tree toilets inside the air, of course, said, you know what, even though you're not buying them, they're holding the white, you know, with 10,000 of these things or some crazy number. They only bought three in the end, and these tree toilets went off, and they said, you know what, let us figure them out. What the lad's done was they created a checklist, and it was the first time a checklist had been used in this capacity in aviation. They went through the check list and they were able to teach in complete novice pilots how to fly the team with almost no pilot errors. It's a really good read but based off that I started using an app during the day called TUEXDEUX2DU. Super simple, obviously I have no financial incentive or financial affiliation with that company so go and check them out if you want, don't check them out if you don't want but it's something I found pretty cool. Because they come with the randomness topic. I had a mad dream there, didn't I? I'm not gonna, not in that. It's about an Irish female writer but not in that sort of weird perverted way where your head's after going to. I had a dream that this Irish female pro cyclist came to my old school to give a talk and I'd hooked up this talk so I felt a lot of responsibility and then a lot of used to go to school, you know, dreams don't make any sense, times not linear and shit in them. So a lot of used to go to school went back in the day, it was a bit of a rough diamond, was a student and he was whatever 15 and he punched her in the throat's turn at presentation. He tried punched her, unprovoked throat punch and she died. So yeah, that was a pretty mental dream. I'm not really sure what that means. Not really sure what you you can take out on it or so I'm just gonna leave that one sit and I'm gonna talk to you about a little endeavor I've said for myself.