Today I want to talk about why you're always tired. 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-chevages? That is the question, and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch, and welcome to the Row Man Podcast. I was riding into the city the other day. I'm living outside the city in Clontarf. It's maybe 20 minutes, 25 minute ride into the city, and I'm riding in, and a bus past me. And the graphic on the side of the bus was on a paraphrase, and it was something about like the remedy for your constant tiredness. And there's actually like a bottle of some sort of shit that you take, some mixture of vitamins and caffeine, I can only imagine that will alleviate your tiredness. And then have you heard this idea of reticular activation system that we got bombarded with these thousands of messages each day and a reticular activation system is like a filter for a wellness to notice what's important. But since I've seen that ads, I've just started to maybe tune into the frequency of other people complaining about being tired. And the more I tune my year into this, the more people I'm here and complaining every day about constant tiredness that regardless of getting a full day is sleep. They're tired. So that's what I want to talk about today and how we can alleviate those symptoms of constant tiredness because I don't know how to fuck your getting anything done if everyone's tired all the time. Before I dive into that, let me remind you before you doze off to head on over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore waltz because if you doze off my financial future. It's down to the tube. Over on Patreon, you can buy me the price of a beer once a month to say thanks for the podcast to keep all this positive shit we have going forward, to keep the show on the road, to keep the momentum, to keep the laughs, to keep the giggles, to keep the community building, all of that costs the price of a beer once a month. If you haven't done it yet, please head on over. Even if you're not techy, it takes about one minute less to fill it out once and then set it and forget it. It's the price of a beer once a month going forward until I start knowing you with this podcast and you can cancel at any time. Link is down below with patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore waltz. So the lack of energy and this constant fillet tiredness. This is something I expect to hear from people in their 70s. You know, people that have put in 45, 50 years hard grind on the building site and they're enjoying their old age and dignity and honour and they're just chilling out around the house and they're like, yeah, you know, I'm kind of tired all day. That's where I'm where my slippers. It's not something I expect to hear from people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s. Where is the youthful exuberance gone? And when I started searching and looking at it, the answer, and it's not glamorous and almost if I was listening to a podcast that gave this answer, I would turn off at this point because the solution, it's the boring shit that we're all over, looking and we're dismissing it in search for a complex answer, a complex pill or a fucking solution on the side of a bus, the solution to our constant fatigue and tiredness, its sleep, its diet and its training. And I'm going to dive into each of those and the aspects of those that I see as important and this isn't an exhaustive deep dive, explorers of talk on sleep, training and diet, but just rather an overarching strategy rather than the tactics. things like sleep, diet, training. They're not a checklist. They're not binary. We can't just go, yes, sleep. Yeah, done that. Slip eight errors. Training, yeah, broke a sweat today. Diet, yeah, my diet's go tick, tick, tick. That's going to alleviate my tiredness. You need to think about these things like a continuum, like a needle. And you need to be always looking to move the needle on sleep, on diet, on training. And I'll give you an example of how I'm doing at the moment and this is just to spark that inquisitive nature in yourself to go, oh, how can I move the diet on sleep training, diet, sleep training and diet?