Anthony Walsh makes a case that most cyclists are postponing decisions they already know the answers to. This solo episode pulls from Stoic philosophy and Dave Brailsford's controlling-the-controllables framework to make the argument that urgency isn't a feeling you wait for, it's something you manufacture.
Key Takeaways
The Stoic approach Anthony talks about here is simple. You split everything into two piles: things you control, things you don't. Death goes in the second pile, so you stop worrying about it and start filling your days with things that actually matter. You've got a finite number of days. Sitting with that tends to sort out your priorities fairly fast. Ryan Holiday's book The Daily Stoic covers this in detail if you want to go further with it.
The other piece in this episode is Anthony explaining what went into building the Roadman Blueprint. On national squads, he watched a lad get told three different things about his race-week nutrition by three different people in the same week. Nutritionist, psychologist, and S&C coach all working in isolation, none of them talking to each other. The Blueprint was built to fix that. Training, nutrition, strength and conditioning, and sports psychology in one programme, periodized together. That's what recreational riders have never had access to, and it's the problem this coaching approach is set up to solve.
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If you want the training structure that sits underneath the Blueprint philosophy, the winter training episode on intensity, frequency, and duration is worth your time. And if climbing is the part of your riding you're most frustrated with, go to the fixable reasons your climbing is slow episode.