Just wanted to take a sec to explain the rest day=higher fitness thing for ya EJ! Disclaimer I’m not a coach, just a junior who’s also a nerd-when you increase the strain on your body through stressors like long rides, intervals, strength work, etc, it puts you into a place where you access the capacity for fitness that your body has. With intervals like 30/30s, you access really high power numbers and then rest, and then repeat. This lets your body *get used to* this intensity and strain, but it’s not actually what makes you strong. Strain primes you to get stronger, but rest+recovery quite literally make you stronger. When there isn’t strain on your body for a period of time after a block where there has been significant strain and stress, that lack of it gives your body a chance to *adapt* and create those physiological adaptations that make you stronger and more fit. If you have a chance, take a look at the “grand tour effect”-it’s really interesting to see how WT guys can come out of 9-21 days of racing and be stronger than they were going into it after even minimal rest.
Love all the content you be putting put for us. Thanks! I’ve gotten into cycling thanks to you. Kinda bad that I’m stationed in Lemoore and there’s no hills to have good training (come from Puerto Rico, hills everywhere) and got my back injured so not much for me now extra sad. Thanks again for all vids and keep killing it!
Frozen link on the chain - hit the link with a drop or two of lube, take a chain breaker tool, tighten it down to the point where you put just a small amount of pressure on the pin (move it slightly), that might break it free. If that does not work, you can put the breaker on the opposite way and nudge the pin back the other direction. After you free the link, maybe another drop of lube. I have used this technique several times, always a success. Of course maybe your chain was needing changed anyway......
Just wanted to take a sec to explain the rest day=higher fitness thing for ya EJ! Disclaimer I’m not a coach, just a junior who’s also a nerd-when you increase the strain on your body through stressors like long rides, intervals, strength work, etc, it puts you into a place where you access the capacity for fitness that your body has. With intervals like 30/30s, you access really high power numbers and then rest, and then repeat. This lets your body *get used to* this intensity and strain, but it’s not actually what makes you strong. Strain primes you to get stronger, but rest+recovery quite literally make you stronger. When there isn’t strain on your body for a period of time after a block where there has been significant strain and stress, that lack of it gives your body a chance to *adapt* and create those physiological adaptations that make you stronger and more fit. If you have a chance, take a look at the “grand tour effect”-it’s really interesting to see how WT guys can come out of 9-21 days of racing and be stronger than they were going into it after even minimal rest.
Thank you so much! This is awesome!
That guy on the old Giant TCR RB is a true legend!
Haha, hey that's me!! I agree, the Giant TCR is a classic.
@@troydupe incredible bike!
Beastmode 😤
Love the content you make!! Keep it up!! Cheers from Bilbao Spain
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Insane effort.. makes you appreciate the guys up ahead and how friggin insane their output is, with you already being a beast..😮
EJ is a 80kg crit racer he is never not going to be struggling and blowing up trying to follow these climbers uphill.
Exactly haha but it’s still fun to try! 😝
Love it! Throwin it down with the local boys! I didn't even know you were filming😂
Love all the content you be putting put for us. Thanks! I’ve gotten into cycling thanks to you. Kinda bad that I’m stationed in Lemoore and there’s no hills to have good training (come from Puerto Rico, hills everywhere) and got my back injured so not much for me now extra sad. Thanks again for all vids and keep killing it!
Aye! Thank you for the love! Sorry to hear all of that! Keep chugging. THank you for your service!
Thanks for the support brotha!
Ted's Bianchi is freakin' sick. Such a beautiful bike.
Frozen link on the chain - hit the link with a drop or two of lube, take a chain breaker tool, tighten it down to the point where you put just a small amount of pressure on the pin (move it slightly), that might break it free. If that does not work, you can put the breaker on the opposite way and nudge the pin back the other direction. After you free the link, maybe another drop of lube. I have used this technique several times, always a success. Of course maybe your chain was needing changed anyway......
Hahah yeah it was time anyway 😂 that’s a good tip though! Thank you!
3:47 I'd like to know that myself.
1st day in a row being second
Legends!! Y'all are the goats!
Goat💪😂
5th day in a row being first 🎉
Legend!!!
30 mph slug fest. I am 70 y.o. and off the table now. 🙂
Suicidal squirrels are no joke
Right???