We're about two months, oh my gosh, two months away from the Leadville 100, and I think I am missing a

huge piece to the puzzle to try to go sub seven. I brought Derek Teal on today from Diled Health,

and we're going to walk through talking about strength training, answering some questions you've

submitted. You can submit those down below in the YouTube comments and the Spotify comments as

well. And we're also going to talk about a whole bunch of other things because people might not know this. You see Derek all over Instagram. You should go follow him at dialed health and you see strength training. You'll see gravel. You'll see road. You'll see some XC stuff. But what you might not know is that Derek used to like race for Yeti from downhill back in the day. Derek's roots are downhill. We're going to talk about that too. We're in terms of like some of the stuff we see going on to the bike world to help us with some equipment choices or at least just share our opinions on it. It'll be super interesting. But Derek, let's just kick off here. I'm actually going to read three questions from people, but first I've got a confession

to make. I've been completely inconsistent with my strength training this year. And not even just

inconsistent, but like if I was consistent, it would still be abysmal in terms of what I'm actually

doing for frequency, because there's consistency and frequency, those two things. I looked back. I have

averaged 0.7 strength workouts per week since January. Derek's so sad right now. That's bad.

And they've all been just core workouts. That's it. Like, uh, and, and that's all I've done. So

I need to be better because I keep thinking about this. I'm like, you know, Leadville, one of the things that I feel like I started to struggle with toward the end last year was holding an arrow position. It was really windy last year, like headwind straight into us.

And I was like knew that it was really important to hold that position, but I was starting to struggle to actually hold it and like be powerful.

Of course, your back is tired at Leadville.

Like, you know, I'm not sure there's any way to get around that like it will be.

It's such a long day.

We can talk about that a bit but

in short like I feel like I keep getting this increasingly frequent and loud alarm going off in my head

that's like you're not doing enough for strength training and my whole goal is to reduce the risk of

losing pace on race day of drifting away from what the target will be. So with that in mind,

Derek, I want to run you through my training. I also want to run through some questions. And I want

to practically talk about how I can do better with my strength training. And hopefully there will be

some principles that other people can pull from this. But I'm going to read three questions first, because these questions, I feel like we're going to answer them. And I want these people to feel heard. And I think that it might cause you to go, oh, okay, I want to listen for this specific reason. Okay. Brian's question says, hey, coaches, I know you've done entire episodes on strength training and mentioned it regularly. Yes, if you'd like to see that that we've done two fully dedicated episodes to strength training with Derek that I will

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