www.drillit.tv Tour de France Final Thoughts

First week best to watch ever. No break, Paul: they'll lose/Phil they'll win and WHOA! They're caught! Again! discourse (well, less.)

Cavendish: he's got TWISM power for sure, but there's more to it. Perfect build for minimal drag, excellent hip flexibility that allows him to block his hips from the wind with his head and present a wing rather than a coffee cup catching wind. And leg speed from the track that keeps him on top of his gear and maintaining Warp Speed from jump to line. Again, lots of genetic ability and hard work, but all that plays a role too.

Questions: How about some commentary on vino strong like bull like always? After 2 yrs and no drugs? The same rider? Really?

Is there more to Wiggo's swan dive? If so what? Was it going back on wheat after shunning the Garmin anti-inflammatory diet?

Also what happened to the Rabobank Rasmussen clone/climbing robot from a few years back?

Overall high 5 to this Tour for entertainment and I'm sure some audience loved the Disney Contador/Schleck story line.

What's up with that chain though? Looking forward to Zinn's postmortem on Chain Gate redux.

Live Alive.

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YOU DOWN WITH GPP? CAVENDISH, SCHLECK, AND CONTADOR SAY ADIOS TO TOUR, YOU SAY HELLO TO GENERAL PHYSICAL PREPAREDNESS

The Tour de France is over, Cavendish has taken his nappies and gone home, Schleck can go back to starving himself, Contador can spend the next year figuring out how he's going to take on the superteams that are about to align against him in the offseason, and Lance gets the big gift of a mondo federal investigation that won't go away (You've inspired people and raised money for charity, chapeau. Another guy who did something like that didn't fair so well when the Feds came callin--Bernie Madoff holmes).

And so ends the DRILLit.TV Tour de France training series. Feel free to dig through the archives and repost any of the WOD's, just link back here please. Spread the knowledge, the training game is changing and we're building a new generation of functionally fit cyclists.

Part of that charge entails bolstering cyclists' General Physical Preparedness, a.k.a. GPP. The world's most savvy S&C specialist and the king of the kettlebell, Pavel Tsatsouline, helped propagate the idea of cultivating GPP. It's a big part of what you're cultivating if you've followed the DRILLit training protocols, which treat your body as that of a human being and not a carbon-based organism fused with a bicycle.

You down with GPP? Yeah you know me.

You should be too. The all-bodyweight workout below comes to us from the Southland Warrior, the Divider of the Sky, the Thrower of Bolts, the Illustrated Man, the Racounteur of Rage, half of the team that birthed the masterpiece documentary Agile, Mobile, Hostile (which you can watch on Hulu @ http://bit.ly/c3Ix3O for free. If you haven't seen, please do. Eric and Tricia did a hell of a job on this project).

So EM conquers the world as an artist and businessperson and somehow he and Tricia find a way to stay fit as fuck and trot around having insane surf adventures in between high pressure gigs. That's pretty impressive, and something we should all shoot for. They do the training, and then they make adventures happen.

Make your adventures happen, too. And start with this WOD:

3 (sets) x
10 (reps) squat, 10 atomic situp, 10 jumping jacks

3 (sets) x
10 (reps) L/10 (reps) R 20# snatch, 10 15# rowing pushups

1x
10 squat, 10 knee to elbow situps, 10 44# sumo squat

Live Alive.

Because otherwise you ain't livin' at all.

DRILLit.

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