Updated
January 22, 2016
| By Bob Fugett
Introduction
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Before you begin this book you should be aware of a few facts about its
methodology and underlying process. To start with, please understand that I have absolutely none of the
standard credentials often considered a prerequisite for authoring such a
work.
You will not find any of the standard blurbs on the cover such as: Ph.D,
M.D., nor even Trainer of Champions (whom you may or may not know), nor any
of the other formal certifications generally required for publication.
If the clear good sense that you find in these pages is not itself
overwhelmingly supportive of the truth presented, and your own experience
using these ideas does not convince you through your own success, then no
amount of ancillary supporting documentation should persuade you anyway.
If you are not convinced by what you find in these pages,
then it is I who have failed in the communication, so you may blame me—hard... again and again, and without mercy—especially
if some other writer
finally enlightens you through a better handling of the material, and you
realize you have wasted much time by not understanding and using these
simple principles.
Otherwise, throughout your reading never forget that the final
responsibility lies in your own understanding of the concepts, and if you
do misunderstand an exercise or idea presented, and you do fall off your
bicycle or overwork part of your anatomy to the point of failure, it is
not I who has caused it, but you who have done it to yourself.
Be careful
out there.
In any case, standard proofs of legitimacy are intended for mass market
consumption.
Books found in commercial stacks are assumed to be pored over by prospective
buyers who may need an extra smack in the face to be enticed past
their inability to tell a book by its cover.
Fortunately, these sorts of hooks into the reader are not needed here,
because by its very nature this book assumes it is speaking to a micro niche corner of a very
small market.
The use of mass marketing techniques could not change
that fact in the least.
Furthermore, the usual encouragements to confidence are perhaps
impossible for an innovative (some have said seminal) work such as
Cycling Performance Simplified.
Its point of view is a radical departure from the ordinary, so the
sideways process of gaining professional credentials might actually
have precluded the clear vision required to see the new situation that is
posed by the recent development of on-cycle power meters.
Ironically, although this book clearly presents ground breaking
concepts, the roots of the work are based on a rather obsolete
concept—that of amateur athletics.
The term amateur sport has become an anachronism, as very few of
the forces that used to compel people into athletics has survived past the
over-professionalizing of virtually every human activity, at least within
the United States.
The old ideas that Democracy is based on individual initiative,
innovation, and commitment, have long since been supplanted by the single
notion that the only thing worthwhile is a pursuit of aggregate wealth
doled out by (and only by) the largest sectors of the corporate conglomerates.
Way back when, the worst thing that could be said about Russian
athletes (Commies as they were termed, the terrorists or
boogiemen of the day), was that they must not be compared to America's
own finest examples of athletics, because the Commie athletes were
supported by the state.
They were in fact considered professionals (most likely on
drugs) while America
exclusively sent her best amateurs into international competition.
Those Commie bastards were cheating by using full time professionals.
Things are different now, but it doesn't seem so long ago that we
destroyed the old mold by sending an actual team of professional athletes into a formerly amateur venue
to whoop-ass .
Few remember the time when a world-class athlete would
likely be holding down a menial day job in order to support their passion
while living on a subsistence, and doing it with no concern (or prospects
at all) of gaining widespread fame and fortune.
Now so much is about the rush to corporate sponsorship that the sport
of cycling itself has become synonymous with drug use and the fast win
despite the consequences.
This book is not going to change that. It merely presents a few simple
guidelines that you may not have thought about which may help you improve
your cycling performance along solid lines of true accomplishment.
This is the slow way to get really fast.
Your accomplishment will be monitored and chronicled by your own
judgment while using information provided by the newest generation of on-cycle
power meters.
These are tools which offer a simple objective repeatable reference.
You are going to love them.
-Bob Fugett
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