Performance Process: From sh*t to superpower with Jumbo's performance director
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Given the team's incredible success in 2023, one could be forgiven for assuming Jumbo-Visma is Dutch for jumbo victory count. With 70+ wins and all three Grand Tours in the bag, including a clean sweep of the Vuelta podium, the team has enjoyed success that even the most dominant of current and former super teams could only dream of. But it hasn't always been that way.
We sat down with Jumbo-Visma's performance director Mathieu Heijboer to find out how they did it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Performance Process, everybody. Process? What do we design on, Ronan? |
| 0:17.6 | I think we've decided after we've recorded the episode we're about to introduce |
| 0:20.6 | that we're going to decide what we're going to decide on using so we haven't yet |
| 0:23.5 | decided if it's process or process. |
| 0:26.9 | We'll put a vote out there to all the listeners whether we want to say process or process |
| 0:30.8 | depending on course on your accent but we'll pick one and stick with it going |
| 0:34.4 | forward anyway we have a great show for you today we have a fascinating show for you today |
| 0:39.0 | we've Ronan and I have already conducted this interview so we know just how good it is Ronan I have already conducted this interview so we know just how good it is. |
| 0:44.2 | Ronan, who are we talking with? |
| 0:46.4 | We are chatting to Matthew Heibor, who is head of performance at Yombo-Vizma and an absolutely |
| 0:52.2 | fascinating individual who talks us through everything |
| 0:57.1 | from the shit days as he described them of 2015 where the team won six races right up to today when obviously the team has won all three |
| 1:06.3 | grantors this season and has 70 odd names and victories to its name already this year. |
| 1:12.5 | So yeah, absolutely fascinating conversation throughout. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, he gets into kind of luring what Van Art over |
| 1:22.0 | or in the early days, because if you recall, what came over or in the early days because if you recall what came over before the |
| 1:25.1 | team was was any good talked about how kind of their process was a big part of |
| 1:30.9 | what pulled him in the door and what convinced him to join the program and you could argue that |
| 1:36.5 | bringing in a talent like that probably was very helpful in bringing in additional talents too. |
| 1:40.5 | So yeah we talked about that We talked about his involvement in rider training, in sort of the |
| 1:46.9 | physiology side of things, as well as on the equipment side, how they picked their shoes, |
| 1:52.3 | for example |
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