The success of the olympic cycling team and indeed, the Sky cycling team has one important philosophy.
They aim to improve 1% every week, and if they can do that, then they have calculated that they are going to become very successful.
1% at their level can be pretty monumental, and 1% for anyone once a week can be spectacular over a period of a few months.
Remember when i always talk about improving every four weeks, and this is why we measure this way without fail? This is the reason!
If i try to get everyone to concentrate and improve just one per cent every week, this will already lead to a 4% improvement each and every month. To tell you the truth, in the beginning stages of any programme, most people are capable of more than 1% a week with a sound training programme.
This is why most people i know are capable of staggering progress if they stay consistent with their eating, training and rest.
The 1% figure was an illustration of elite athletes at the very highest level! So can you imagine the effect that a well-designed professional programme would have on the average person?!!!! This is when results get really interesting and this is why people never stop surprising me with the levels that they are capable of attaining!
If you think of yourself when you started training, and assuming you have been training for a while now, then you should be significantly further down the track than when you first started! This is a more than 1% improvements and its important to remember that!
So if the pro cycling teams can get that 1% improvement out of every area of their performance, this is why they have done so well for so long in the olympics and now the tour de france of course. The last statement said it all, a 1% improvement out of EVERY AREA OF THEIR PERFORMANCE!!! This is what we will talk about tomorrow and how you can achieve the same improvements in relation to your own ability!!!
