Is training without a TARGET pointless? | Plus Zwift’s FOUR HORSEMEN
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2021
- I try to give any tough challenge a POINT to getting it done. And if there's no point, I give it a target.
I never want to "just get round" if I can help it!
Today my examples are Zwift's Four Horseman route and a long training run. Both of which would have been tough without a POINT.
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Great job on beating the child in a race he wasn't aware of Mark 😉😂😂😂
Awesome video mate as always, Tom is a little monster, he's going to be pretty special when he is older.
Love the message though, the reward / goal thing is a massive driver for me as well. I often train out of fear of failure or humiliation but its the same thing.
How come this 40-odd year old man, who has 30kg on me, and i can both out-sprint and out-climb, can motivate and entertain me to this level?
I have no idea, but I love it!
I really enjoy the videos man. Keep it up!!!
Hey there Mark! First of all, great video and channel mate!
Thank you very much for this video in particular. I applied your SMARTT perspective to my ride last wednesday. I am not a powerhouse like yourself, my sprint power won't budge over 800W, but I am a fairly descent endurance rider. I wanted to complete the Four Horsemen with a target closer to what you settled for yourself, and really thought it was going to be nearly impossible to do it. So I went on and wrote down all your ascent and descent times as you have document in this vid. Turned out to be a massive game-changer, I could pace myself reasonably and finished the ride in just over 3h30m! This would not have been possible without your advice, thank you very much! Will certainly apply the SMARTT perspective to other rides and life projects, it really made a sensible difference! Ride on and cheers from a Portuguese fan, mate!
Love the content, keep it coming Mark!
One of your best Mark. As I’m riding Zwift training for an event in July. Don’t have a specific target. Agree with you so will come up with one
Awesome video! Love the explanations and how you present these, Thanks Mark!!
Your whole attitude spurred me on to a sub-60 Alpe and a sub 4-hour Four Horsemen. Thanks for all the vids - really enjoyable.
Having watched your content for a few weeks now, Im going to be signing up to my first duatholon! Keep up the great content!
Funny that i just did this route on 6th March, 4 hours and 38 seconds on strava, only route left now is London PRL Full at 173.8 km which i'm doing this Saturday, aiming initially for sub 6.5 hours but hoping to lower that as i go.
Great video! thanks.
This is why I watch your channel, the old stuff is gold (the videos when you look at challenges and motivation instead of selling out to push standing desks by talking about motor noise)
Unfortunately, very few people watch these so they aren’t viable to produce on a regular basis. This video is a year old with 11k views! It has made revenues of about £1 !
@@MarkLewisfitness it is a shame people don’t get to see these. Well intended suggestion here from someone who knows nothing, but couldn’t you re-upload them calling them “Classic Mark” or “Re-cycled Zwift videos”, or “Everyone deserves a second serving”. They are very good videos the deserve to earn you more than £1.
You could even make a video reviewing a past video in the light of what you have learned since. Anyway, just a thought.
@@davidr1431 I am planning a “my favourite old videos” video 😁
After watching a non climber climbing
And at 95Kg and 1.8 w/K
Set a goal for ADZ of 2 hours
Finished up at 1h55m44s
Thanks and keep doing what you do
When I was riding my road bike around town in my twenties I would always pick someone ahead of me and use them for inspiration to get ahead of them and then find the next person to beat in my head. Nowadays I just use myself and try to go harder than last time in the gym with my weights and my cardio and if I can’t do it then I will try again the next time. Really enjoying your channel Mark.
Thanks for the great content, watched this video and it was perfect gave me great motivation and target to beat, you! 😁 just to rub it in and have my little win, I did the four horsemen route and rounded it to 100km and beat your time just. Keep up the content absolutely brilliant
Awesome video Mark, very educational indeed and inspirational. Thank you 👏🏻👍🏻
Solid advice big fella , sometimes use an online software called bike split times , I just use the free guides it gives me an idea , you can pay it some extra over the top data available , other plans can be zone work on routes , z2 on flats , z3 tempo on climbs and like the alpe decide how your feeling high tempo/threshold etc .
Great video, I love how you get straight to the Mildred
One of the best fitness videos I've ever seen on CZcams
Love the vid and the specifics. Good stuff.
In other news, Mildred is an awesome name.
Excellent 4 horsemen ride!
And I'm with Frederik: I'm nowhere near your demographic (over 50, overweight, very slow) but love your videos and especially your humour.
Great vid Mark! Love the dark humour as per!
Thanks for the Video Mark!
Some workout advise, with life advice!
Really interesting perspective, I’ve never thought about it that way.
Nice work Mark!
This is a brilliant idea
I love your content, Mark. I’m curious if you have an overarching training philosophy such as periodization that you stick to. I ask because 80% of my training I aim to be easy for that reason. You seem to mostly drive hard from what I can tell though.
Another great video. Labradoodle hunting you down 🐶😆
8:36 - "If he was my weight at his age, he'd probably be taken into care or something" 😂😂😂
More Tom collabs is my recco.
Mark Lewis : beating children, getting subs :P Great work
Don't know if you've come across best bike split before but it is remarkably accurate at predicting times around zwift courses. You don't have to sign up. just search for best bike split. Then click case studies. Then click zwift world routes. If you then view any of the routes you can adjust the weight and power and it gives you loads of data on split times etc. I have used it before by selecting a power that I know will be tough for me to maintain for the duration but then aiming to beat that time. I normally do that by calculating my average speed in my head at each mile mark and if I'm up or down. So after a climb, when the average has dropped, I deffo work harder than would otherwise on the flats trying to get ahead again. All good fun :-)
Nice video, can't wait for the vEVERESTING
THAT was classic. GOOD ON TOM! I love the advise - it is spot on. BTW during a 7hr Zwift ride yesterday [target was longer than 200km (did 230km)] a female friend of mine joined for 60km and she was sprinting every lap for PRs - [on Discord] I was yelling "NO 2-1-2!!!" at her as she huffed/puffed during her sprints. She is "fond" of you.
Great timing for the vid, I am gonna do 4 horseman this weekend...
Your content is so interesting. Now I have to try the 4 horseman too!
Another great video mark, you crack me up 🤣 Have you ever looked at everesting? This is were you climb 1 hill repeatedly until you have climbed the height of Everest. You can do it on Zwift and is a hidden badge 😳 Check out hells 500.
Yeah. I did it in 11hrs 50 with breaks 2 weeks ago. I’m a little lighter than you. 🤣 Sat at 75kg lost 15kg in 15 months through riding. Spent 25 years in the Royal Marines and still going so had to keep my running to a minimum due to injury. If you do it through the Hells 500 rules for their hall of fame there are a few rules 1 being training setting at 100% which does make a difference because you can’t keep you cadence up, think mine was about 47. 🤮
Lives on safari for a start 😂
I totally agree on what you're saying on having a point - particularly on target times. I have a target time for every race and significant ride i do on Zwift for exactly the reasons you state. Make a target that is hard but not impossible to achieve, assess performance afterwards.
Feed her cookies 😭😭
Great vid. I set a 4hr target for mega pretzel got under 3hrs 40min was delighted. Also massive group ride (should have 3000 people) on Saturday at 2pm for the PRL Full at 2pm UK time. Double drafting and always people to ride with. Come join the fun :-)
Another aspect of the lion analogy is they also don't expend any energy they don't have to i.e. when they've just eaten the Gazelle, it's time for snoozing and chilling. We have the same drives but are stuck in that part of the cycle, as Domino's brings us the 'Gazelle' and Netflix provides the resting for a constant waist expanding cycle.
Psychotic ex……sales manager. :)
Happy to live in a country where cold calling is not a thing.
Lives on safari...lol
Pick up on somebody your own size :) or age :)
Hmmm - so your targets are beating 14-year old cyclist and your dog winning a race! Strange times.
I disagree with your first take. Animals of course have to exercise. Their game is survival of the fittest.