So I'm using those blue light blockers in the evening by RA optics. They're awesome and that's part of a healthy evening routine for me. So I would say sleep tracker is very much in the optional category. I want to move on to recovery boots, base boots. And actually this whole conversation is prompted and it got me thinking and it goes much deeper. Over in the summit I have Scott Morphy who's the physio for our Mitchell and Scott world tour team and myself and Scott dive deep into the science behind each of these plus way more recovery strategies protocols, devices, gadgets, everything they use on the world tour. So that's another reason to sign up to the summit but I felt for just you podcasters. This one's also worth doing, especially as we're coming up to Christmas. I'm like, do a Christmas gift guide. This is me thinking out loud in my schizophrenic voice. Yeah, I might do a Christmas gift guide. I think that'll be cool. Anyway, let me know what you'd like on the Christmas gift guide. What are we going on under basically how cheap of a fucker are you? $150? Oh, sorry, under 50 euro, over 100 euro, 150 DRO, where's that threshold? No one's getting a specialized SL7 for Christmas. Well, maybe you've better friends than I do. Compression boots are space boots or gravity boots. We see all the world horoglys using them. Pros, your legs do feel pretty damn good after them. Cons, they are pretty expensive. They are looking at thousands plus Euro for any of them. Have a set of recommend over on roadman resources which I've used. Another con on them is you're completely stationary. So unless, you know, if I come in from a tree or a roid, I'm typically coming in from a tree or a roid, grabbing a recovery drink and kind of scattering into my computer to start working or scattering out to a meeting in pre-COVID era, I rarely have time to sit down after a session and stick on recovery builds. Haven't said that if you're chilling out in the evening, watching Netflix or something, you can put them on. but they're quite loud and they give it ahh, kind of a humdrum. If you're watching Netflix, which you're significant order, you know, it's not the most chill vibe around and you also look like a bit of a lunatic. So I would say probably it's hummed down under compression boots, but you know, maybe useful. Farm rolling, it's one of the cheapest, easiest things you can do. You even don't even have to buy a farm roller. You can go to a building site, you can rub some wavin' pipe go to your mom's house, rub her tea towel, wrap the wavin' point in it's heat towel and you have a hack of the week. GCN style. But seriously, foam rollers, there's one I recommend in roadman resources through you, they're all super cheap, very effective for pain relief. Scott runs through exactly why he's not the biggest fan of them because they treat symptoms rather than root causes. But if it alleviates that pain gets a little bit of extra blood flow going there. He was willing to concede they are worth having as part of your recovery protocol. Something I have been using a lot and I have to say I don't normally like gadgets and apps and if someone says to me there's a new app for my phone my conversation is normally no go away but I have been using Peridot and Peridot is like back those 1990s infomercials where you can get a six pack sitting down in the couch eating a cheeseburger those electro stimulation pads that you place all over your muscles. You hook it to an app on your phone, it sends an electrical impulse to your muscles, encourages new blood flow to the area. I have to say I'm liking them. I'm liking it a lot. It's chill and it's pretty non-invasive as opposed to the well it is invasive but it's pretty like the compression boots when you're sitting down and you have the compression boots on you can't it up. You can't do anything, you can't make a cup of tea, it ruins the Netflix experience for everyone that's in the room, but when you have the power dot on, it's pretty understated. You can put it on under your clothes and still go down to the shop. If my back is sore or something after a session, I'm trying the power dot on, trying to teach her it on over it. I'm literally going about my day. I've recorded podcast episodes with the power dot on and I really like it. Now, I've only had it for... Doo doo doo. I'm gonna say three or four months. So will the novelty wear off? I'm not sure. One thing that is a little bit annoying on it, the Electro pads are disposable. So mine are basically done after three or four months now and they need to be replaced. They're not very expensive to replace them. I can't remember how much they are.
You're looking at a 20-40 quid type thing. But it's just... you know, it's maybe a smart move from the company to make it a consumable. so you keep going back to them, but it's just fucking annoying, isn't it? I actually have the power of our founder on the roadman's summit, so that's an interesting one as well, to hear his take and avoid inventing it. But they're doing cool shit as well, and that's why I like them, because they're not a static company, you know, get their boots or whatever, and there you have your boots. They're doing cool integrations, and one of the integrations they're doing is you hook your Strava account up to it, and it'll personalise your recovery protocol based on the difficulty of your session and it pulls that difficulty level from your Strava. That sort of stuff I'm super excited about. That's obviously over in roadman resources as well, we're checking out what else, you know, all skill, but it's definitely my favorite. I don't care that often, but it's, you know, stick all these in the bin and give me this any day of the week. Go to all skill massage. You need time, that's the downside, to park off and actually get to your masseuse unless they come to your house but you still need the time for the error to sit there but it's so good. Time and time again when I chat with Scott Morphy from Mitchell and Scott on this on the summit he is a really interesting take on all of this stuff because they don't look at big that they don't look at PowerDot like the way Eric the founder does on the summit and say you know we analyze 10,000 and 9,900 people experience this performance game on it. They don't care about that at Mitchell and Scott. They care about what is the effect on the writer, what is the effect on Chris Yo-Yenson, what is the effect on Adam Yates. So that's why they play around with all this stuff. And the subject of is super important to them, whereas the objective is super important in scientific studies. They really care about, doesn't make Chris Yo-Yenson feel better, doesn't make Adam Yates sleep better. And if any of these things make you feel better, make you sleep better, you're gonna be happier, your cortisol levels are gonna be lower, you're gonna sleep better. It's all this, you know, it's also intertwined and interconnected, you can't just look at one variable in isolation. And massage for me is that thing that makes me feel better. It puts me in a space where I put my phone down, step away from tech. Your masseuse can almost become your therapist at times where it's someone who really cares about you, unloading the problems of your day on to the end, while you're getting your massage and I come out of there feeling a million dollars and because I feel a million dollars then everything's better. I'm a bit of a pep in my step. I'm walking around like a lad who won the lottery. I got laid that morning and whistling as I go. Sleep better that night, perform better the next day. I've always been a huge fan of massage. I would take massage over all those order gadgets except sleep because I'm not putting sleep into the gadget category, sleep trackers and sleep need to be differentiated. That's a bit of a whistle stop tour of recovery and recovery gadgets. Scott goes way deeper on the science and why he recommends some gadgets of our other gadgets and what the actual effect is. So that's definitely worth checking out in the summit. But I hope that was instructive if you're thinking that you can buy your way to recovery a little bit faster because you can, but the main gains are still made in all skill stuff. Sleep, sleep, sleep. Roadman, thank you for tuning in again to another Roadman podcast and you know what, you know what I'm gonna say, we're back again tomorrow. Enjoy your day, Roadman, and if you're getting there or trying it, ride safe. Roadman before you go, I've got an important announcement to make because over two days and the eight and nineth of December, I'm gonna speak with 30 of the world's leading fitness experts. And I want you to join me, free of charge from the comfort of your own home. This is the first ever Roadman Virtual Performance Summit, for aiming to bring together the best minds and fitness and they're going to share what need their secrets for biohacking your physiology, melting away body fat and smashing your cycling goals. Would you like to learn their secrets? It's easy. All you have to do is register for your free ticket over at www.roadmansummit.com forward slash free. That's www.roadmansummit.com forward slash free. The link is in the bio.