This email is coming to you from the shuttle van of our mountain bike tour in Madeira Portugal. This is because my phone broke (just stopped turning on) and my time zones are all messed up (and we’ve been riding bikes from 10am to 7pm (including driving) each day). Oops!
Here’s what I found fun, interesting, or noteworthy this week…
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Our NEW YouTube video –
Bone Shaker – Double Black – Las Vegas – VAN LIFE
This is a feature packed video where we share our corroded StarLink cable fix, and some KA-razy mountain biking on the Bone Shaker trail in Las Vegas.
Must DO travel upgrade –
Business Class Upgrade ONLY when you have a set dollar amount. What does this mean…
For international flights business class upgrades can get you all kinds of perks, but you have to know your dollar limit and what you are getting.
On our flight from Seattle to London we upgraded because the amount to upgrade was roughly equal to the amount we would pay to bring our bikes on the plane (which was included with business class).
And let me tell you… business class is SO MUSH BETTER!!! We had good food, and our seats turned into beds.
All for the same price we would have paid to bring our bikes. WIN/WIN!
How to have MASSIVE fitness gains –
Just join our program so you don’t have to think about it! Hahahaha!!
But if you don’t want to…
Fitness routines are the killer of improvements. The only routine you want to have is to workout 4-5 times a week, but the workouts (and eating) you do should have variation, and sometimes massive variation. Here’s why…
Our bodies our always trying to make things easier on ourselves by adapting to whatever we are doing. This is because we will survive longer if we need to burn less calories for the same activity.
So the hack for this is to have programmed variation into your program. Basically using your head to out think your body.
Example
If you always do 10 sets of leg exercises, do 20 sets for a week, or workout 6 days a week for a week or two (if you usually workout 4 days), and when you are on a harder cycle HAVE BIG EATing days once a week. This is sometimes called a “cheat day” or re-feed day. If you are working out enough a massive amount of calories will actually increase your metabolism and cause more fat burning and muscle gains.
The key is to know when you should mix in these big training weeks with lower volume training weeks (and less food). If you are in tune with your body you will be able to figure it out.
These variations can happen in all different kinds of ways. It’s really cool and fun to figure out!
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That’s what I have for you this week. I’m going to go ride my bike for one more day in Madeira!
Cheers!
Joe
