Hey everybody. Welcome back to another Pink Bike podcast. I'm Mike Levy, and for today's show,

I'm sitting down with Joel Harwood, founder, owner, and head coach of Blueprint Athlete Development here in Squamish.

Joel has worked with a bunch of badass people that we're going to talk about, as well as a

whole lot of normal people to make them better riders, racers, athletes through a holistic

approach that combines on-bike techniques, gym work, endurance training, and they also work on

injury prevention, nutrition, and even sports psychology.

And God knows I need some of that.

So today, we're going to talk about all of that and more.

But first, Joel, I'm stoked to have you on finally.

And I think a lot of Pinkers have been asking for some coaching and

training episodes so I think there's going to be something for everybody in this episode.

You've been doing this for a while now. We're in your brand new gym. Tell me how you got into

this before we get into the coaching stuff.

Into the gym? Yeah. Well, you know, I think for me, the strength that Blueprint is trying to build a community.

And that community isn't just a community of athletes.

It's a community of coaches as well.

And so for many years, I've had all kinds of colleagues that I can bring in, that will speak to athletes, that I can refer athletes

to. And eventually I just decided that the next step in the evolution of blueprint was to maybe

create that space for the people that I work with to invite some of those colleagues to come

join me in this space. And so that's where this kind of facility was born. We wanted an opportunity for athletes to

have strength coaches, skills coaches, physiotherapists, massage therapists, all under one roof. And so here we

are sitting about eight months after the idea became a real thing. We're sitting in our new space.

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