Comments on: Putting Your Hands in the Fire – How to Race Faster https://consummateathlete.com/putting-your-hands-in-the-fire-how-to-race-faster/ Where busy athletes can find the tools to crush their biggest cycling goals. Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:36:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Peter Glassford https://consummateathlete.com/putting-your-hands-in-the-fire-how-to-race-faster/#comment-374 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:36:46 +0000 http://smartathlete.ca/?p=6721#comment-374 In reply to Robert.

Thanks again, Robert! I love the skiing example, you don’t want to be the person hurting themselves because they turn their brain off (or blowing up despite getting the holeshot, or on the first interval of a set)

BUT, for you, if you are an ‘endurance athlete’, it is important to be recovered/motivated enough to push yourself on each rep (and maybe do fewer reps/shorter rides to help motivate harder work).

So skiing example might be:
-> A – person who goes big but hurt often
-> B – person who never hits jumps

-> Optimal is someone who has lots of practice on ‘easy jumps’ and a couple days a week they go for reps of a 9/10 type jump, maybe the odd 10/10 effort but always with good warmup/prep/focus/safety

]]> By: Robert https://consummateathlete.com/putting-your-hands-in-the-fire-how-to-race-faster/#comment-373 Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:14:39 +0000 http://smartathlete.ca/?p=6721#comment-373 This reminds me of my friends who were and still are really good at snowboarding. If there was an instance when we were riding a really big jump, they had the ability to switch off their brains and go for it. No fear. Remember that brand? I’m pretty sure I fall in the second category of people mentioned in your article. Pushing myself beyond when my brain and legs are yelling STOP! is a skill that can be learned. Is this a survival mechanism in our brain processing that this effort “can” kill/hurt us and is trying to protect us? Reminds me of some things I read in the Brave Athlete book.

Great article.

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