Rowman today I want to talk about the secret to progress
Rowman today I want to talk about the secret to progress. 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-chef it? That is the question on this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch and welcome to the Rowman Podcast. Rob Man, welcome back to another Raw Man Cycling Podcast from a pissing wet toble in Ireland, I'm bringing you this podcast. I'm back and actually that's kind of what motivated the topic today. I want to talk about how to make progress and after heart of that is getting uncomfortable and I was out riding today. It was cold, I was wearing at least six or seven layers as you typically do here in Ireland in a two-three degree and rain day and I was contrasting that back to Colombian riding up climbs with my jersey down the sun beating on myself and I found myself being a straight-up little bitch this morning. I was like I could not motivate myself to get out the door and I was making any excuse not to go training until I just caught myself on and said just get out the door and quit been such a little pussy. So I got out the door, came back and while I was riding I had started this little epiphany about comfort and that's what I want to share with you today. So before I do let me remind you about Patreon because Patreon's how we fund the podcast. Your Jeff Bezos is anyone that has those monthly subscription services like Amazon Prime. Those dudes don't care about your money they don't even want your money. It does not bring them any happiness. When you subscribe to the Rowman podcast to small independent creators. It's like the equivalent of supporting local and that big at the moment and it's important and COVID has taught us the importance of supporting local. So I do really appreciate everybody that decided to buy me the price of a pointed beer once a month to support local to support the podcast because you keep this show on the road. If you'd like to buy me the price of a pointed beer, you can do so on the link down below. It's patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch and you're going to get yourself access to the secret podcast which is going to drop in the next couple of days. Okay, old man, every now and then, you know, I like to go off on one and a little bit of a rant and today's podcast is definitely that. It's an absolute rant, but I also want this to be a wake up call because if you know somebody who's just straight up acting like a little bitch at the moment, they're stuck in a lot and they can't get going, this is maybe the podcast you need to send on to them. need to send them on to give them a kick up the hole and just say, look, it's go time because a lot of people are on easy streets and this is, as I say, the motivation for this podcast, it's today and monumental talk processes and being such a quitter this morning and post-boning training. And it was also prompted by a phone call I had a recliant recently who used to be super high level athletes and he's done super well in business since. And He's just about to get started. He's just about to get started. And I was saying, dude, you used to be pretty much a pro-athlete in hockey.
One of the hardest sports in the world
One of the hardest sports in the world. You've fallen on easy street. Money has made you soft. And the things you're doing now, they're just not supportive of your goals. As a society, we're so detached from what we are. This new era of internet, stay at home, Netflix, constant screens, mobile phone, our pocket. If we look at the entire history of humanity, this is a small, small little page in the history book of us as humans. For a long, long time, we're outdoors creatures, we're hunter-gatherers, we're lean. We're not doughy, soft, drive-true animals. Netflix spotify your fucking coffee machine. All this stuff, it's making you soft and it's stopping you and it's standing in the way of you getting gone and it's standing in the way of you hitting your goals. Prefontaine has that brilliant quote to give any less than your very best, the sacrificing, the gift. And so many of us are doing that right now. So the first step to take in action is actually just looking at yourself in the mirror and getting uncomfortable with the reality. Like label, stop giving yourself these white lies like, oh, you're beautiful the way you are. You're just stuck in a little bit of a rut. It happens to everyone. You're tired because you have a long job, you've kids, everyone has those excuses. Label it, if you're fat, label it, if you're lazy, label it, if you're poor, label it, if your relationship isn't where you want it to be, label it, stop the lawyers and stop quieting that voice in the back of your head. You're not that naggy little voice, that voice that's calling you out and that little voice that knows you're being a wimp, that you're wasn't out. Stop quieting that voice and covering up with excuses. Start getting uncomfortable again because to create that progress, whether it's progress you want into your love life, for its progress you want and your physique, or progress you want in your career, you need to label it and you need to get uncomfortable. To create that progress you're gonna have to step out of where you are at the moment. We'll label where you are at the moment the comfort zone and you're gonna have to step out of that comfort zone. And, when you step out of that comfort zone you're gonna have people coming out of the would working, you're gonna have haters, you're gonna open yourself up to criticism. Like a lot of you know I put out YouTube videos infrequently-ish. You know I used to be super frequent on it now the podcast is the main thing. I put one out from Columbia yesterday which is actually definitely worth checking out a link to that in the description down below. It's just my journey up that climb all told the letter as whoo, ripper hurt climb as you know from the podcast. But the podcast doesn't do justice to suffering on the face and that's all captured in the video. But when I started doing YouTube and I started putting myself out there, you get little trolls that come out of the woodwork and they started using you. They'll start to pick on your accent, they'll pick on how you look, they'll pick on what you're wearing. That's just the nature of putting yourself out there in the limelight. You're going to have people who maybe they don't have the self-confidence or the security to do what you're doing and they secretly want to do what you're doing, but they want to bring you back down a level.
Develop a resistance to this because you just don't care
That you develop a resistance to this because you just don't care. A buddy of mine was talking about starting a YouTube channel. He's like, well, how do you deal with the criticism? And I was like, I actually just don't even notice it. I don't notice at all. It completely washes off my back. And that's just a measure of putting stuff out consistently, consistently, consistently. It's one of the skills you're developed. But also when you start doing stuff and you move out of this comfort zone, you're going to fail with stuff. you're going to fail with your diet, you're going to fail with your training plan, you're going to fail with your business, you're going to have fights in your relationship. That's okay, it's okay to fail. The amount of businesses I've failed at, like I started an app and I was on the front page of the Irish Financial paper here, like about raising this big fundraising round for this app, which was going to be machine learning, artificial technology. I said I was going to coach a million Reuters inside 12 months. Guess what? I'm not coaching a million in the In the end of the year, the app failed despite having an amazing team and pulling together five of the smartest guys I've ever met. We didn't get it right. And so many businesses that happened to me for our book. Guess what? You just go again. You dust yourself down. Take what's going out of the criticism and just deflect and push away all that's not. Dust yourself down and get going again. But stay uncomfortable because comfort is the enemy of progress, road man. That was a rant. You know what to rant when you hardly break to take a breath during the podcast? That it was just a straight, true stream of consciousness, as James Joyce would say. Roadman, thanks for listening to my rant. And I'm going to be back again tomorrow with a full feature lens, roadman podcast until then, roadman. Look after yourselves. Before you go anywhere, our first ever roadman summit, it aired back in December. I brought together 30 experts and they shared with me their secrets on how to biohack your physiology, how to melt away body fat and smash your cycling goals, whatever that was. Since airing that back in December, I've just been in on days of my Instagram, DM's, Twitter Direct messages with requests to get access to this material. I hadn't locked up in the vault, but I've decided to open access to this material for you, the podcast listeners at the Roadman podcast. So to get access to this, it's a one-point payment of 47 euro and you're gonna have all the interviews, all those secrets forever. You're gonna have the videos and the MP-trays. In there I've got interviews, world-tore mechanics, nutritionists, sports psychologists, bike-fit experts and some of the legends at a sport like Tyler Hamilton and Pete Sten. Over 30 hours of content in this members area that I've created for you guys. So if you want to get access to that way to do it, it's to head on over to this URL www.roadmansomit.com forward slash 2021. I'll give you that again. It's www.roadmansomit.com forward slash 2021. That's numerical. The link to that is in the bio. Get it, check it out, learn it, take it in because this is short to set you on the right past for 2021.