- So, we've been climbing through the brush
in the wilderness here for four days
trying to find the elusive gym.
No, he's not here yet.
So this is the garden
and I'll tell you in my head, it seemed a lot bigger.
I was imagining no, there's enough room here.
We'll just plunk these out though.
No problem.
But what I did was I paced it out
and I was like, right, three meters from here.
Let's do that one, two three. So we may have issues
in easier pens, pretty much these front trees
and all of this dirt is got to go out of here.
We go to hoof it out.
- ♪ "Go, go go, go head, go, go, go, go head, ♪
go, go, go, go head, go, go, go, go head, go.
Today I'm gon wake up a new man
driving a new road, develop a new plan."
- Behold the area where I keep all my sore backs.
- ♪ " I'm gon write down every single thought ♪
got goals on my wall hoping I never fall.
I've been gone for minute, yeah, I had to be free.
You want it I got it, so tell me what you need.
I'm unchanged, un-phased and unwilling its a new day
new world we all winning. I'm up late, up early
I got to get it, keep working now we got to make a million.
Go, go, now you got it I see you.
Go, go, you got it I see you."
- Day four in gym build project, can see here
a nice six by three area, sort of flattened out.
We're going to have to bring a bit of finesse into it now.
I've got my bone sharp spirit level
and it's a bit short to get it really accurate.
So I want to like strap it to a nice
big, bit of straight wood and that'll give me
a more accurate level and allow me to kind of level things
out with the bit of wood as well.
I don't have any, but I want to do this in a budget.
So what I'm going to do is a saw bench by this street
down the road it's fallen to bits like it's collapsed.
So I reckon there's some wood I can swipe
and use that to get this thing nice and level.
Here we are.
- Here we are.
- It's gone there was more stuck here there it is.
- ♪" you got it I see you, you got it I see you, ♪
you got it I see you, you got it I see you,
you got it I see you. "
- Right? So I did the math and
we don't have enough slabs to cover the full area.
So we're going to have to borrow slash,
then we just stealing I'm going to steal some
from some other location so the path is getting pilfered.
That'll do. (up beat music) just big enough just.
Walls are up, but it's a bit dark in here.
Let's fix that. Let's get lights in.
- (up beat music)
- Well the new set up works for turbo training
but it didn't make it any easier.
I'm bearing a bit, I'm bearing
this bar was (squeak sound) expensive.
Putting that together was immensely pleasurable
it was like a giant mechanical set, turned out a lot better
than I thought it's not as thick metal
and kind of durable and stable as like proper good racks.
But honestly you had to like, yeah, five times the price.
If you want to get a really good one
this will do for us now 200 pounds.
What else am I going to say, what else am I saying max.
- Talk about the universe, talk about the fabric of reality.
- ( chilled music)
- Its ringing, its ringing..
- Are you in the gym?
- Well we'll get to that.
- Hello!
- With his flat cap on what we drinking.
- This is my brand, this is my personal branding.
- I don't know if you can kind of of see much here.
- That looks fly.
- So we got the turbo set up, the reason
I'm in my ketenal sweat was I just did my FTP test.
Luckily I actually did better, just.
Had a big fan in the corner blowing on me.
- That's your only fan.(guys laugh.)
- Today is the seventh of May, deep in lockdown training.
But what we want to make a regular thing
in the episodes is me doing some baseline tests.
We're going to do the first FTP test
since the one we did December time.
So, since then I've been doing a lot of training,
definitely got fitter, but then had a baby.
There he is right there, his a baby.
So my trainings gone a little bit all over the place.
I'm not done very much been working
on this project, building this gym.
So let's think of some more excuses.
Who knows if I'm even going to beat my old score.
Right I think we need to get the fan on turbo.
160 watts (motivational music)
come on. No, I can't, I can't, I can't.
We got improvement isn't it? Who's back?
I Have improved not bad. I'm lifting all my weight.
(Upbeat music)
Well, Noodle arms Cathro is getting
less noodley arms out there.
Let's type in the maths.
Good news is have improved on everything.
The training works as Rob likes to
say so back squat one rep max is 106.9.
Kilograms broke the broke the a hundred Mark, one rep max
and deadlift, 150 kilograms when you're at max
and the push press play on weakest at 46.5 kilograms
and a bench press one rep max is 84.4 kilograms.
Go with that you want to get to a hundred
hundreds like the that's when you get the bragging rights.
The old one rep max, where back squat
with 90 dead left was one 10 overhead press was 35
please with that, well good.
- You're rep max, you had to be creative with them
because you don't have enough weight
but I think we've seen, I mean we've
definitely seen an improvement in strengths.(mumble)
from my point of views as your coach the extra
time that we've got I think is a bit of a blessing you know
you're still on the improvement curve
and that's the place where training is great
because its like give me more every time
you test and you getting better, feel like you getting
(mumble) when it gets really tricky
is when you start to plateau and the increments
got to improve not get smaller.
That's what makes the difference with
certain legs on burning, try (mumble)
race after. When I was racing Cape epic
years ago, few days after the race had finished.
(car drive by) was in a gym, everyone else
was on holiday, three days later he might now be
throwing weights around but he's in the gym.
Everyone else is riding all the races.
Where as troy I think he road the Canadian open
like the big one the important one.
Everyone else was just wanting to ride loads.
And on the bike you looking at
general conditioning, skill development
street skill, some e-bikes going in.(claps)
- E-bikes.
- E-bikes oh my God, its going to change your life
you're going to sell all your other bikes.
Your going to find it really, really
hard to create content on anything else.(man laughs)
no bike makes sense after, Rudy Caling is blown away.
- Just to say to everyone who's watching
I had to message Raph and be like
Raph we need to rework the training
so I can just ride my e-bike, like everyday.
To me it just feels like.
- Its predictable.
- Its, core just is, is just real planted.
- Did you back in the day what was
the heaviest downhill bike you ever had?
- The orange two, two, three with the led weight strap
to the down tube. That thing was nice.
It kind of feels similar to that
except it didn't, I think by decimals
its probably half as loud when you bike.
This thing is a revelation, been asking
for it for years and we don't have all the parts for it
yet which is the theme of this entire series
and Sed came to market down at Santa cruise California
and was like Cathro you're a dad now
you need an e-bike. I think we should
call them dad bikes cause they are so good
when you don't have as much time
as maybe you used to and you just need to
zoom out and overcome the power hours.
So King George the second, he is the ruler
of all and he's out to claim some more land
for his kingdom this year bike check quick bike check.
So we're running the 29 inch alloy raceways Atlas wheels.
I'm excited about running alloy ones.
Cause I think they have a nice, more supple feel to them.
We've got the magic, Mary Supercell, 2.35 ties.
And I'm running the XC CushCore in the front because I feel
like the front wheel, it doesn't need the big full fat one.
Then on the front end
it was a 203 millimeter desk, seven center pads
and most of the time, but if it does get too hot
sometimes I'll put organics in the front Fox
or the new Fox 40 Fox is going away from 49 and back to 40.
And I'm running them
with a nice little custom sticker on the front.
That looks very nice
- but those big Noodle arms are still working.
- Control points are running the day 35 mill STEM
and bars, as diameter of the clumping surface.
And I've gone for the 810 or full width
extra tacky, locked jaw grips, wanting a 7.5 mil spacer
under the sand to lift the front of that a little bit more.
Cause I'm a really tall guy and I like
to have a high front end also running a seven mil reach
extend our headset just to get that
bike a little bit longer again
because I'm so tall, new Fox DHX, too shocking.
It, which I think is actually the biggest leap forward
in suspension that they've done this year.
I think the fork is a little bit better
but the shock is loads better.
The breakaway force
or the high speed compression allows
the shock to move at higher velocities
without suffering from losing support.
When you can dial the high speed back too much.
When it comes to the drive, sending crank salmon
and the one 65 mil cranks, I've got the same pedals
and I've got the little wafer thin spacers
on the pins, on the chains.
They have done a lot modifications
cause it was got really bored.
And I had a lot of mastic tape line around.
So I've stuck mastic tape everywhere.
And the back end of the bait, the cassette I've customized.
It is an 11 to 34 tooth.
So I've taken the top three rings off
and just put some spacers is now at seven speed
11 to 21 backfill.
I'm running the full fat cushcore to try and deaden.
And some of those hefty impacts.
I think that's all the juicy bits
- The pandemics obviously bad news
understatement of the year, but buying us
that little bit of time I think
you know, chasing racist, chasing points
trying to produce videos, you know
away from home a lot was Jack's, stress levels.
You got fitter, You got stronger, You got better
you got faster. Keep working on your vascular development.
So you can look as a veiny as Peiron.
Oh my God, that's the secret. You must need
veins in your shoulders.
- Cheers Rob.
- Cheers brother, see you mate.
- What were your first thoughts when you saw
the announcement of the UCI calendar
that we might be going racing?
- So initial thought was what?
No, like I didn't think we were going to get anything
I was like maybe one Race. So it was disbelief confusion.
And then excitement. was is the order of how things went?
Yeah, I hope it happens like its still not guaranteed
but it's promising.
- Sick so what is it?
What is on the cards for you next?
- The local Hill
just the long term is a prime for the building.
We need to get me riding a rough, fast, long downhill track
and actually getting this new bike setup
So I need some help so as soon
as you're able like truck North immediately.
(upbeat music)