Had anyone tried one of those combo sauna/red light therapy blankets? I'm seeing more and more people discussing both, and some friends who I trust to not get swayed by BS swear by red light therapy. I can't afford a real sauna, and see a lot of these options on Facebook. I'm always looking for a way to lower inflammation and recovery.

Folks, I've promised there's big energy and huge announcements coming to the group this year. I wanted to kick off the New Year with some amazing news. @Matthew Devins has joined the Roadman Coaching team. Matthew has made incredible contributions to the group and on group calls in the past couple of weeks. For anyone who doesn't know Matthew. He comes from a high level racing background. An international rider and former pro. He was (in my view) destined for World Tour before fate dealt him a bad hand with some long term health complications. He's one of the best coaches and cycling minds I know and I'm super honoured/humbled that he's agreed to join us. Matthew will be in the community posting daily, his DM's are open if you've sensitive questions. For general training questions I encourage you to ask them in the community so we can all benefit from the answer. Can you join me in welcoming Matthew to the group

I’ve read that the data on low cadence work is inconclusive with some tests showing gains and others showing no gains. Then there’s the added risk of injury to the knee that comes from the increase in torque. On the other side we see pros regularly utilising this training method. Where do you stand on this esp as you have prescribed this as part of your sessions.

So I feel like now all I’m seeing on my phone is recaps of people’s years and how good everything has been going. I hope that you’ve had a good one and things have been going well! I read in some of the introductory posts that there’s people here that have overcome cancer and some other pretty major health issues (cannot remember everything exactly but definitely seen people come through some serious stuff which is unreal). Personally had a pretty disappointing year again (lol) with how my health has turned out and the issues that’s caused. I’m not wanting to start moaning here but just for anybody that can relate to it or can take something from it. I know that this is just how social media works and it is what it is with people not sharing negative stuff. But yeah if anybody wants to share anything in this thread then I think that would be cool. I know that people are really encouraging each other within this community and everything I’ve seen has been really positive but if there are negative things then feel free to throw them in here. Reflecting on the year and all that like we do. Personally since I was young my main goal has always been to be happy in life but with how unwell I’ve been feeling a lot of the time over the last years I’m trying to shift the goal to finding peace in myself. That’s my current thinking anyways towards it all. If anybody wants to add anything then feel free sure!

I have spent a few months training on the turbo and using erg mode for my tempo/ threshold efforts. I did my ride outside today and was surprised but how poor my pacing and feel had got. Using erg seems to have made my legs lazy and not actually knowing ow to put out smooth consistent power when doing efforts. Interesting in thought on if erg mode is to blame for my poor outdoor pacing?