For the people watching it, the 2022 Tour de France was one of the most exciting in recent memory, but for the riders themselves, it was as brutal as always. The Tour has a real claim to being the most difficult athletic event on earth, both physically and psychologically.
Who would do this to themselves?
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It’s all about the Mind: the Psychology of Cycling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR5shB1qUwU&t=419s
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usefully informative infomercial for the Doctor's services
well done by both. thanks.
2100 miles is insane with or without mountains to climb … I knew the race was long but damn.
yup, the overall hardest event of the overall hardest sport on the planet. long live Le Tour.
Giro d'italia is more demanding than the Tour de France. The cyclists have a training team that help them prepare for the race. They practice riding with and through the pain of the race. The only the element they can't control are the crowds that often get in their way as they ride.
Association is what happens with psychedelics. Psychedelics would be an enhancer.
kinda thought thisd be about a biker shitting themselves and on the biker behind them
Boring
You know what
The title seems very accurate xd
“What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.”
— Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, “Essays on Mind and Matter”
All just aerobic athletes who couldn't cut it at long distance running, so they took the easy way out 😉
Bro looks like a Bill Gates thunderbird puppet
Lol i thought they were insane because they were going to inevitably have their balls destroyed, yet they still push through because, you know, glory and shit. 😂
I don't think they see obstacles differently, but keep the wide scope for what they are doing, not letting the pain blind… Talking out or thinking things through in your head is actually signaling the rest of your body to just push…
Geez I don't know what to say.
You think that other forms of racing such as auto-racing isn't for insane people? I don't understand why the racing fans don't necessarily crossover to the tour de france. It's pretty interesting that they have to find the draft and position while having to feel how much their legs have. It doesn't look like a crazy person designed those bikes, chain rings, and gears. It's too bad that the drug use develops at a race to over power technical aspects. That's what makes it suck because then its carnoval con game. You'll waste time trying to analyze the differences in riders and it's just that he's on drugs. He could have won on a unicycle. I don't want to know what albuterol unless i'm dying in the hospital. They have an ICU team in their mechanic car.
Excellent video, really high quality stuff
When an athlete is that thin and consumes 7000-8000 calories / day you know this is very serious. These people can produce 600 Watts for hours and 1200+ Watts when sprinting. When I was cycling intensively every weekend the max I could do was 300ish W.
The sport is much cleaner than decades past. Because of this I think they need to modify the tour. The tour is still set up for athletes on peds. They should shorten several stages.
Dislocated Shoulder + Injured Back head of Peloton = STEROIDS. It’s time we all grow up and realize that steroid use is very common in pro sports. It’s OK it’s called “sports medicine”. It doesn’t matter if it’s hydrocortisone, Cortisone or Corticosteroid Inhalers. Pro athletes with big contracts and big endorsement use steroids! They don’t have to be anabolic back alley injections or blood doping but use does happen!
Not to mention all the drugs they use
When I’m stressed by extreme physical effort my natural response is irritability and raw anger.
This whole video can be used as a life lesson not only for cycling
The misconception is that anyone given time and training can potentially perform at this level, which is false. You need to have a number of physical talents, like slow heart rate, bodies ability to extract oxygen from the atmosphere, high pain tolerance etc etc. Mental conditioning is complimentary but one cannot succeed just on mental conditioning. There are 3 components, physical predisposition, physical training, mental conditioning.
Cycling is full of doping. Can’t be considered a real sport.
This guy has no idea what he is talking about. Roglic lost the tour because of his emotions!? You're in the yellow jersey with one day to go, a minute up on second place. You are fully locked in on the mission at hand. He lost. Simple as that. You're going to tell me if he had a psychologist during the tour that he would have won. That is one hell of an excuse for everyone that has ever lost a race. They weren't stronger, I just let my emotions get to me. Utter BS
Physically tour de France riders they enjoy the pain.
10:47 bruh the spectator should get arrested or something man
My two mile bike commute to work is quite enough pain, thanks! This was fascinating but no way I'm ever doing any kind of race.
Baffling to me your channel isnt at a few million subs. This is incredible quality keep it up
Personally i like team skye, the all diabetic team
Goes to show why Simone Biles made the right decision at the the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
As a person cycling to work 20km a day, I can attest to the emotions, pain and uncertainties of going to work every day.
What really seperated the pros from the joes, is the descending. Anyone can be trained to be a fast climber and TT rider. But a fast descender, is someone who is born with loose screws and a profound lack of self preservation instincts.
Greg Lemond once said “It doesn’t get easier, you just go faster
“When my legs hurt,” I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!” Jens Voigt
Lots of heart attacks with the younger riders now.
All these views and no subs. GET HIM UP!!
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The sport is a rolling rave party. Always has been. Theres no possible chance of cleaning it up
them pros are obsessed! they do the extremes just to get to wear that yellow jersey….most of them are addicts and they barely eat to keep their weight down…I could be wrong, but aren't athletes supposed to be the models for good health and nutrition???
Excellent video
its not people at a higher level its the bikes. there probably running full ceramic bearings that alone can make anyone go fast for a long time added with 20k frame of carbon and the rest taking drugs
I could win the tour de France if i was on a similar program 😂
You have to be uncommon amongst uncommon people.
Their physiology is what blows my mind. Super vascular, insane aerobic capacity, efficiency and vo2max. The speed at which us mortals would be sprinting and gasping for every breath is slower than their warmup. Their resting heart rate literally keeps going up each day of the tour from 40bpm to 55bpm. They accumulate so much fatigue. Of course it's unhealthy in the long term but its crazy what the human body is capable of.
As long as everyone cheats their drug tests its all good lol
It is also a needle game
What more funny about that is that he is talking about tdf21 and 22 and he is mixing events and not knowing what he is talking about… photos of primoz tt are all from 21 and he is talking like its 22
Great life lessons, thank you!
14:56 dont say that now every dentist that rides once a month on his 13,000$ pinarello is going to think hes some rarity of human genetics.
I would love to do the tour the France, but with all stages connected and in something like six weeks.