Welcome to a special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by

trainer Rodin today. We are doing what we've called the abstract with Sarah

Laverty and I Sarah it's good to have you back on here again. Hey guys. So we are

going to again Sarah has her background and exercise physiology and her

degree in that and she's coming through research constantly and we are

creating content from that but we sometimes some of that research doesn't make

it into content that we create. Sometimes it's just like a musing that we

have or sometimes you kind of get a sneak peek at it here on the podcast before

maybe you see other videos of it. So we are going to talk about willpower today.

Is that correct Sarah and then I'll cover one topic at the end with that as

well that I've been looking into but this is where we talk about the research

we've been looking into. So Sarah willpower. Where do you want to start? Yeah. So

this is something that the likes of Andrew Huberman has covered recently and it

was fascinating. I listened to that podcast and I wanted to look at that

research that he discusses and see how it applies to endurance athletes. So

it's no secret that to reach your potential as an endurance athlete you need a

hefty amount of willpower and with that like what is willpower willpower is you

need willpower to intervene with the default neural processes. So that is for

example you're doing a VL2 max workout and you're on the second to last interval

and your brain is telling you to stop and you're you have to override that to

continue and finish the workout and therefore get faster. So that is how

willpower comes into cycling and we what can we learn from the research that

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