I started my build phase and MAN IT’S HARD. What is your favorite self-talk when the work is tough? These VO2 max workouts all feel like I am at the point of failure, but I am eeking through them! I am feeling proud and teaching myself that YES, you CAN do it! Repeatedly! Today during the 3rd (…

I just like to think about how I’m the only one nailing those intervals right there and then. Everyone else is failing them. Seems simple but works for me. I also remember watching a pro race on TV years ago. Breakaway is out on a miserable day. A rider (wish I could remember who or even what team)…

LMAO I would love to see this race…hahahahahaha

Discussed here: [image] Mantras - what's yours? Training I am a damn emotional mess on the trainer and in bike races so mine look like I need a therapist: “If I do this, I will win” and in the last 30-seconds of the interval it changes to “I will win, will win, I will wi…

If you’re talking that much, you aren’t pedalling hard enough. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Self motivation for me is hardest getting into a training session, not during it. [image] mikestarr: Sometimes I feel like I am wavering for 10-15 seconds and part of my brain says “Welp, that’s it! Throw in the towel.” For VO2max intervals, unless it’s my first few of the season or I’m out …

[image] JoeX: For VO2max intervals, unless it’s my first few of the season or I’m out of practice, if my body is saying that then I should probably listen to it. I disagree here. I’m finishing up GBMV (week 7) that has plenty of V02 max intervals that increase in intensity and duration week …

I think the positive self talk that you are doing is great. Also add to yourself that “it’s only 3 minutes!” Before you know it, the pain will be over. There’s an author named Jesse Itzler, and he taught me “Always think of tomorrow”. On a more micro scale, always think of how you’ll feel if you qui…

Tripper’s refrain has seen me through many the final minute or final seconds of many an interval over these last thirty years… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1DoFP78r6k&pbjreload=10

Death Crawl scene from Facing the Giants - YouTube it. 5 minutes of great motivational chat - I’ve had it it queued up to play when I hit the 117/18 minute mark in a ramp test. "You give me your best! Your keep going! That’s it. Do your very best! Your very best! Your very best! Keep moving Broc…

I don’t talk to myself, rather I imagine a scenario. Last October I rode the last race of my season. The weather was shocking and I wasn’t on form. Needless to say, I got shot out the back in no time. I can still see the pack creeping further and further up the road. I worked like a dog to catch b…

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