 Oh, that's what we bought here. What is this my muscle powder? What are you doing that? Nah, I'll just hit a ball thing Move up and down Feel like a dog that's gonna like start. Oh, it's so good So it's week five and this is a big week in my building block training regime and I got to tell you this bike is Absolutely killing me now for those of you who have been watching the series and can understand my Aussie accent You'll know that I said I was gonna have a week off this week this vlog series because a mate's bucks Got in the way of the target event, but things have changed which I'll explain shortly I'm just gonna pull over and have a little supplement I'm starting to supplement my training regime now, which I'll share with you Pre-write coffee and then I'm gonna get into the session many of my subscribers will have seen me drink this before It's called HVMN ketone not sponsored I do have an affiliate link though, which also enables you to get a little bit of a discount as well I trial this did a review wasn't sponsored enjoyed the drink and I think there's a couple of reasons why I think it's Beneficial one is it can help with performance gains. How much is up for debate? But for me as an aging athlete when I do these heavy sessions like I'm gonna do today Fatigue is pretty serious glycogen depletion in the muscle and this because it's an additional energy source So which you're gonna be utilizing as you train heavily it limits the amount of glycogen depletion and Reduces your fatigue and assist in recovery. So that's what I'm going to be using it for today Tastes like rocket fuel wouldn't have it for every hardcore training session But definitely in your hard weeks when you're feeling fatigue like I'm this morning. I think it's a good thing to supplement in Doesn't taste so good. So I'm at the gear oil in sporting complex This is a purpose-built criterion track here, and I've just finished 10 hill repeats in the big ring About one to two minute efforts and now I'm going to do 50 seconds off 10 seconds on sprinting. I'm going to use this hill to sprint up. I'm going to sprint on the flats as well I'll just sort of mix it up. I'm not a sprinter, but I think that's why I need to work on it Because if I want to win a bike race, I'm going to break or whatever the situation might be often You're going to need to have to sprint to some degree So let's get into it and then I'm going to explain to you why this bike right here Is killing me. So I'm just around the corner from home session complete. I've done less than 50 k It hasn't been a really long session, but high-intensity stuff About 20 minutes in zone 5-6 and then a minute and a half in my neuromuscular anywhere between 800 to a thousand watts so tough stuff and I've been doing it on this bike below which It's bloody heavy. We're going to go away tomorrow And I'm going to explain what impact it's having so I'm back at the front of trilogy cycles and Every time I pull up here. It seems to be a bit of a spot for this series There's always somebody in a u-turn or a truck that pulls up next to me leaves their engine running I'm not sure if you can hear that and it looks at me very strangely But anyway, I'm here because I'm going to weigh my training bike Which is behind me and the reason why this bike has been killing me is because it's heavy There's a lot of resistance going on particularly with the tires I published a video a few weeks ago now the number one training tip for cyclists and that is putting heavy training wheels and Tires on your bike because no matter how bad Your training structure is if you put on heavy training wheels and tires You are forced to work harder and subsequently you will get stronger and the thing about my bike behind me here We'll go through it shortly is that there's a lot of resistance going on and when you're doing hill repeats and threshold Efforts and all kinds of stuff it requires you to produce more talk through the pedal stroke was essentially more force and it takes a while for you to Get a feel for the rhythm required to keep that bike up to momentum And it's only been a week and a half really since I've been riding on the training bike And it's always the first week or two weeks where it kills you But then the thing is you start getting used to it and when you start getting used to it That's when you know you're really starting to get stronger. So I'm on my way But it's been killing me this week. So let's go on a trilogy of cycles now and weigh this beast Okay, so we might Now now what do you got over here? I can just I just my eyes went straight to that you got two of them now Or is that the 220 that middle one there is the 220 yeah, right time machine road, right? What's on that ball? Running on Tegra dii to run it you test right had the Sram eta. Yep, and a high spec wheel Same frame. Yeah, just with it. I'll Tegra dii to groups that on it and a better price point It's slightly different color scheme as well I can see slightly different color people like to read a lot of red whites and the BMC like it. What's the price? 98 double nine on that one. Yeah, okay. Nice. I've got I've got this beast actually that I'm wondering you could wait for me Is that all right? They're all right with that you reckon so we've got fulcrum files that I'm scared of pronouncing the Schwab Schwabble Schwab marathons Shimano 105 it's a bit dirty. I need to give it a clean We've got a GoPro on the front. We've got two full drink bottles. I train with and It's an alloy frame So it was almost there What's your guess nine and a half? 11.04. Oh, yeah, is that is that big? Good training bike for training by what are your gravel bikes way normally probably around the 10 as well 10 as well It's 11 over 11 big Yeah, right start Keith to get me a gravel for comparison. I care. We have a Scott speedster What size is that? That's a medium a 54. Yeah, okay granted. It doesn't have the drink button bottles cages computers true 10.3 be much 10.28 so that would be heavier than yours when you add the two drink bottles. Yeah, yeah, yeah computers. Yeah, absolutely What do you like about the tall rooms The tallest in the pool Yo, I'm over here now other house It's called delegation. Are you getting your leaves out though Ruby? The bug bit you in the other house and now you're crying about it. That was 10 minutes ago. Oh My gosh, it did nothing to your skin So while I'm delegating well, I don't know what's going on now Week five apparently this is a new fad that's taking off cleaning pools is really good to improve your bike handling schools But nine all seriousness Two houses were at my parents old place here and next door where we just were They've had that block of land for a while They've just built a new house and they're gonna be moving out of this house very shortly We were just talking Holly and I about all the family memories pretty sad moving next door but as a result my parents are away and I'm the pool man for the next a Number of weeks the last thing that I wanted to mention The reason why the series is back on track is because literally I think it was just over a week after I got that email Saying that there was a box a very good friend of mine same day as the men's Masters Nationals Road Race It was probably two or three days ago now. I've got another email saying we can't do that date There's too many particularly close family members that had other commitments that couldn't attend So we're pushing it out a week and as a result I'm back on for the men's Masters Nationals and Criteria and Road Race, which is very very exciting I'll catch you in the next video