A Faster Path to Peak Performance: Optimize the Core

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• 00:03

  This week's good life project riff is all about what I call optimizing the core before you optimize the margins.

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  So there's this really interesting phenomenon that I see all the time, and I'm absolutely sure I've been guilty of many, many times as well, because, hey, I'm human just like you are.

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  So I wanted to throw it out there because I wonder if it might resonate with you.

• 00:28

  This is.

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  I think there's a great story about that kind of came out of back in the days when I was a pretty hardcore mountain biker and I would travel around the world and do these pretty fierce adventures.

• 00:40

  And there's an interesting thing that happens in the cycling community.

• 00:44

  And if you've ever been a part of a community where there's a really deeply embedded culture and a part of that culture is not just a particular activity, but it's also the gear that revolves around that activity, you'll probably understand this.

• 01:00

  And the cycling community is very much that, whether you're a road cyclist or whether you're a mountain biker.

• 01:06

  I actually started out my very early days in college as a road cyclist and racing.

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  I literally, the year that the first mountain bike came out, I switched to mountain biking and rode this.

• 01:18

  It must have been like a 50 pound clunker through the woods, but I was completely hooked.

• 01:22

  I love riding fast in tight, windy woods, but there's this really interesting phenomenon that happens in the culture of an activity where gear is part of the equation, and that's this pretty quickly.

• 01:37

  People become, let's call it somewhat maniacally obsessed.

• 01:41

  I know somewhat maniacally obsessed is a little bit of a.

• 01:44

  Doesn't make sense, but you get what I'm saying.

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  Maniacally obsessed with performance.

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  And so you start to figure out, okay, let's take mountain bike, for example.

• 01:54

  So I want to be able to ride faster in tight, windy single track, which singletrack is sort of narrow trails that go very often in the northeast, in the United States and in Canada, where there's an amazing single track, it's really windy, really tight turns, ups and down.

• 02:12

  You're in the trees.

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  So if you're going quickly, if you hit a tree, you're in a lot of trouble.

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