#1: Pliability Is The Missing ‘Leg’ Of Performance Training Of those twelve, we have outlined the most relevant topics that apply to Endurance Athletes: Brady outlines 12 areas that have helped him achieve “sustained peak performance” at the highest levels of sport into his 40’s. What’s more, this is true regardless of the reality that the sport of cycling is steeped in a culture that emphasizes recovery as a method to achieve our highest capacities.
It is common for Endurance Athletes, of all levels, to emphasize hard workouts that will increase performance without balancing them with rejuvenative activities needed to restore our bodies ability to perform optimally. This often leads to acute or over-use injuries that decrease our ability to sustain peak performance.Īlthough this notion is mostly applicable to “impact sports”, which cycling is not, it is still relevant to Endurance Athletes in one major way: The TB12 book premise states that when we are young, our muscles are “pliable”, a state that allows them to be long and supple.īut in order to build adequate strength and endurance to be competitive in sport we embark upon training routines that both shorten and tighten our muscles. To explore those questions we read his manuscript and found there to be numerous valuable “takeaways” from a book that is sometimes heavy on personal promotion.įirst, the book begins with a premise that is intriguing for a sport like cycling that sees Athletes performing optimally, well beyond the physical maturity we experience in our early 20’s. Tom Brady is a widely considered one of the greatest football players of all times, and at 41-years old, he knows a thing or two about peak performance.
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