“Do you find it frustrating to spend so much time, money, and energy training, riding, racing and you just don't seem to get much better?...

How Many Times Have You Heard Yourself Say, ‘Ahhh! I'm Stronger Than That! How Could I Let HIM Win?’, or ‘I Messed That Up – AGAIN!’...

Or you know you have the skills and fitness, but are paralyzed by FEAR – maybe a bad crash, maybe some other mental block?”

It's time to get rid of the obvious AND hidden mental blocks that keep you from your cycling success so you can finally get the results you deserve.
  • Do you wonder why club mates and competitors seem to be getting better and you're not?... Even though you feel like you're doing the same things as them?
  • Do you dread hills and get nervous at even the slightest incline?
  • Do you lose sleep because of the stress in your life...Only to have it tear down your recovery and thus, your end performance? Are you tired or arriving to race starts way too tired from STRESS, not TRAINING?
  • Have you had a bad crash and feel yourself hesitate and second-guess yourself, where you were once confident? Do you feel trapped by the crash images that keep flashing in your mind, wishing you could get rid of them and get back to your old confident self again?
  • Do you wish you had more days where the Cycling Gods smiled down upon you? You know, the days that it seems like everything lines up just for you...a hole opens up exactly when you need it to, like the seas parting at your arrival...when your fitness is at its best, when you don't even feel your legs or lungs, and everything is in sync like you're an unstoppable motor? Learn this specific technique to lay the foundation that allows for more of those magical days.
  • Maximize the fitness you have. Sometimes it's not about training more or harder, but making the best strategic use of what you already have.

 

Dig Deep....Thor Hushovd ended up reclaiming the Green Jersey after two brutal HC climbs
(Stage 16 Tour de France, July 20, 2010. Col d'Aubisque July 20, 2010. Photo © Cynthia Lou)

You've done your preparation... Everything you knew to do... Everything you could do given your circumstances...But have you prepared yourself to let the Cycling Gods shine on you so you can win?

What if I told you there was a way you could:

  • Recover faster and more effectively, no matter the stress or situation.
  • Sleep soundly, naturally, no matter what is going on around you or how hard you've ridden? Even if you have a history of insomnia.
  • Quickly, easily, painlessly release the fears associated with a crash. Completely erase the negative mental images of a massive pileup, hard crash, taking a descent too hot and crashing into a guardrail or plummeting over a mountainside, getting blown off a cliff face – so you can go forth and be the confident racer you know you can be, and you know you have been.
  • Get rid of press-interview nervousness and anxiety to be calm, confident, poised when all eyes are on you, even if you've already had lots of media training. Getting rid of your underlying fears can help you sound intelligent and speak fluidly under pressure.

 

Do you know you have a "best self" as a cyclist, but that "best self" doesn't always come through?

What if I told you it was possible to bring out your best self, to have the strength-endurance, that killer instinct, that fearlessness and confidence all the time?


Why use only a fraction of your brain? The more you can tap into the hidden and subconscious parts of the mind, the better your performance. Period.

 

What if I told you it's all in your mind? And that, with the right kind of mental training you can make the best use of all the physical training you've been doing so you can win more races, beat your friends in the group rides, better support your team, and know that you gave your best and your ALL, each and every time?

 

I know how frustrating it is, to train your best, to feel like you've given your all, only to be disappointed by the results.

First off, let me say that I'm not a pro cyclist. Far, far from it, in fact. But I have won one race. I've been on the podium about a dozen times (okay, maybe a few under, but I'll round up :)). And I'm great at reading people on the bike.

I was no athlete to begin with. I don't seem to have this thing called "natural talent". People do not describe my racing as "talented", but they do describe it as tenacious. They ask things like, "How did you ride so smooth?" "How did you learn to descend like that?"

Let me tell you, there were many cobwebs I had to clear out to gain some athleticism as a cyclist.

Before I even thought of racing (I just wanted to be healthy for once!):

* I was terrified of riding in traffic! Turning my head while riding forward was a dangerous proposition
* I squeezed my brakes with a death grip on descents, afraid of going faster than 17-18 mph – even on smooth, straight descents! On hot days I prayed that I wouldn't blow my tubes due to the heat of the friction of the rubbing brakes.
* I was super stiff and scared of riding anywhere near people. In groups, I was "That weirdly tense girl" and probably scared a lot of people as a terrifyingly rigid newbie rider

At the same time I became obsessed with riding, with being a healthier human being, I studied mental techniques that could pull me out of depression and obsessive/compulsive behavior so I could function smoothly, happily, and successfully.

I loved my work, I loved creating, and I loved the study of the human mind and what makes people tick. As I started my first business, Lou Studios, a web design boutique, I love the study of high-performance of the self – after all, the stronger and more confident we are in our selves, the stronger and more vibrant our businesses can be. I spent many hours and many thousands of dollars studying, testing, applying these techniques on myself.

These techniques workers so well for me in business, I started to apply them to my cycling.

I went from stiff, terrified, and not-confident to being able to:

* Ride through mid-Los Angeles traffic with ease and alertness
* LOVE descending and being able to keep up with the boys
* Dive bomb into corners
* Read people's minds easily – in a race or group ride I can see the look of, "Why do I do this? Why do I suffer? I have a successful career! I'm frustrated and I want to give up!", and know it's time to hit the gas!

I became a certified PSYCH-K facilitator, and use several other methods to erase mental roadblocks in order to create all kinds of results in the realm of the miraculous.

Mental Ninja Skills Work? YES!

I use a lot of mental ninja skills behind the scenes that I don’t necessarily overtly talk about out in the open, for a few reasons: 1) Sometimes I'm just testing out new methods and techniques, and 2) Because some people don't like to hear about things like intuition, NLP, PSYCH-K, EFT, and a bunch of woo woo kinds of energy work.

But I've had some super-amazing, out-of-left-field awesome results that just have no logical explanation, including:

Meeting Sir Richard Branson, talking to him and having him agree to be on my show. Whoa!!
Getting onto the front page of UStream, to magically hit my goal of 500 live show viewers (we had over 4,400 live viewers stream through that broadcast!)
Crossing paths with my blog hero Gala Darling, on a random street in New York City. Uh, hello! The Universe is speaking! See, as I planned my trip to New York I wanted to interview her, but was way too chicken to ask her, send an email, any of that. My mentors asked me endlessly to "Just do it! Go ask! Take action!", while fear took over and I did nothing. Well what do you know, we just "happened" to cross paths in New York City! Accident? I think not...
I've used these techniques with friends and clients reduce anxiety so they could move forth in building their businesses after traumatic losses, and even get rid of insomnia

On the cycling side of things

  • Mental Ninja Skills have helped me go from crappy descender to confident descender
  • I'm smooth and comfortable in the pack where I used to be twitchy and stiff
  • I've used these techniques to help a pro cyclist have a solid time trial (where he wasn't typically known as a time trialist), and he had other "magically" strong days on the bike helping his teammates to victory

 

Seriously Now, Does It Really Work?

Here are a few examples:

* I've used these techniques on a pro cyclist, who had a stellar time trial (he's not typically a time-trialer) and who raced some of the hardest stages with surprising ease, surprising even his teammates

* Working with entrepreneur friend, these techniques helped to cure her multi-year insomnia, and had her sleep like a rock afterwards. She also was able to release a bout of anxiety over a potential lost opportunity, and was able to see more clearly how to turn the "loss" into a gain.

* I helped one friend move through gnarly post-chemotherapy nausea and find rest and health

* I've worked with an entrepreneur who did everything "right", according to what the "experts"dictated, but was still not getting the results she desired. After we worked together, her business started to gel and take off!

* I once had to do a series of on-camera interviews, but wasn't able to "get into the groove" and not sound stiff, nervous and awkward. I excused myself to the bathroom to apply a few of these techniques, and got rid of the nervousness and anxiety, and completed my videos with an ease and calm that was noticeable in the footage.

 

“You're Not Trying Hard Enough”

But what if you are? Or at least feel like you are?


How much can you suffer?
(Stage 16 Tour de France, July 20, 2010. Col d'Aubisque July 20, 2010. Photo © Cynthia Lou)

This phrase has made me want to scream bloody murder and punch the people around me if I'd had the energy to. And yet, I honestly didn't know how to "try harder".

What I learned is that it's not about "trying harder" as it is "trying smarter" and approaching "trying" in an effective way.

One particular road race, on the books I knew I hadn't been putting in the kind of training that had me at "race fit". But I had spent a lot of money and time to get to the race, so I hid away to use my mental ninja techniques to get me prepared.

Fantastically, that race I was able to climb with the best, stick to the pack, and finish far beyond what I'd imagined. Friends who watched noticed, "Wow, you really looked fresh on those climbs." This is the power of tapping into the realm of the unseen to make the best use of the physical.

 

How to Just "Get It"

Let's face it – pros have talent. They are gifted. They just "get it" on a bike.

But what I've noticed is that sometimes they can't break it down because they know how to ride by feel, it's just easy for them. "Just, um, go harder!", or, "You just go for it...", are phrases I've heard from pros when I've asked for help.

They've done things by feel, and they can't articulate and break things down, break down what's going on in their HEADS that makes all the difference.

In this program I've broken down the tools so that you can apply them to your own riding, training, and racing. If these techniques have worked for me, they will work for you!

 

What's The Program and What's In It For You?

In the "Brain Training: Mental Tools for Cyclists" Home Study Course I share the tools and techniques I use, and how I use them specifically to eliminate blocks and get rid of the hidden mental "anchors" that can hold me down.

Here's what you'll learn

THE MINDSET OF SUCCESS
  • Set your goals.
  • Be focused. Be serious.
  • Where You are, where you want to be, how to get there. Start with a plan.
THE MENTAL TRAINING TOOLKIT
  • Worksheets, Training Videos, and techniques to use on and off the bike.
  • The exact tools that can mean the difference between using the power you have, or throwing it away and watching others take your win.
  • How to fine-tune the "gut feeling", and step into the world of the unseen forces that have far greater control than our physical senses can sense.
MENTAL TOUGHNESS IN CLIMBING, SPRINTING, AND TIME TRIALING
  • Program your mind to have the make your climbing, sprinting and time trialing your best.
  • It's not about removing the pain – that will always be there. It's about...you know those magical days, where everything goes well? Where you just seem to climb faster than the other guys, your legs feel strong and like pistons not like lead weights? Your time trial hurts the good hurt, and the clock smiles a better time than you'd imagined?
CRASH MANAGEMENT – ERASE THE NEGATIVITY AND FEAR TO GET BACK INTO MENTAL FORM AFTER A CRASH
  • Quickly get back to center and back in the race during mid-race crashes.
  • Erase fears, anxieties, negative imagery from your subconscious or conscious mind.
  • Heal faster than doctors understand and can reasonably, logically explain.
WEIGHT LOSS AND RECOVERY / OPTIMAL FITNESS THROUGH THE MIND
  • You have just a few hours between the finish of one stage and the start of another. You could recover with the typical physical treatments – massage, drinks, supplements, sleep. Or you could bring in the larger energetic sphere into your recovery.
  • This goes far beyond just "hoping", "wishing" your wellness. This goes into energetic's. Methods, tactics, strategies, formulas, and blueprints that not only explain you and your best traits, but also realign you to the highest and best YOU.
INTUITION IN RACING, TRAINING, AND TIMING
  • That winning break. When to attack. Yes, you must tdo all the detailed reconnaissance. Yes you should visualize and mentally strategize. But what if you were to heighten and fine-tune your intuition to be able to practically read people's minds.

Who This Is NOT For

If you've got too many wins, accolades, and Olympic medals, stage wins, GC wins, than you can stand, you're probably not going to need this program

If you're not a believer in the world of the unseen, in the idea of using your mind to create or at least affect your results, this is not the program for you.

If you're cool with using just 20% of your brain (maybe even just 10% or 5% or 2%, if you're *that* oxygen deprived!) and don't care to use the other 80% of your mind, don't bother with this program.

On The Other Hand...

If you're someone who wants to make the most of their training and bring your mental "A" game each and every time to best use your physical training....

If you're someone who's got that slightly obsessive (massively obsessive?) edge and is looking for all of the "1%" improvements that have a compounding effect in your results.....

If you're someone who could use relief from the mental stress of balancing work, riding, family, kids, and other obligations so you can best recover and race...

If you've crashed and can't get back up, have flashbacks of your crash that keep you from performing at 100% and are ready to release them...

If you feel like you can't quite dig deep enough that last 1k, that last bit over the hill, that little gap as the winning break gets away...

If you can't read which break to go with, and which to leave...

...this program could be the tipping point that gets you to your goals.

 

What This Is Not

This is no substitute for training! Yes, you will be able to best use the training you've put in, but you still have to get out there and train!

The better your fitness, the more foundation you'll have to execute the new mental toughness, clarity, and grounding you've just created!

 

The Kind of Results You Want, For MUCH Less Than You'd Spend On a Pair of Wheels

Or a new bike, or a new power meter, or a few months of coaching, or a nutritionist......you get my drift, right?

The things we use to get us faster, stronger, farther:

  • New wheel sets
  • An array of computer equipment (SRM, anyone?)
  • Coaches
  • Shakes, pills, powders, herbs, supplements
  • Faster, zippier helmets, shoes
  • Spent hundreds a month on a nutrition expert, not to mention the sport-specific, speed-specific foods to make us faster, recover more quickly, rebuild and repair muscles
And yes, these things work. But it's when we begin to train our minds in conjunction with everything else that our results take off.

 

Special Bonus

To the first 10 people who register for the class, you will receive THREE (3) Complimentary PSYCH-K Sessions.

What is PSYCH-K?

PSYCH-K is short for psychological-kinesiology. It's a process that facilitates communication between your subconscious beliefs and your Super-Conscious, or Higher Self. It's an intuitive process combined with kinesthetics that allows me to intuitively and remotely facilitate a process at the subconscious and super-conscious and autonomic level to determine what you need to restore you to your natural and optimal well-being.

PSYCH-K is like rebooting your mind and installing new software (i.e. new beliefs).

Your PSYCH-K session can also be used to clear pre-race jitters or fears of the competition, so you begin your race bathed in the radiance of the light of the Cycling Gods.

Why Use PSYCH-K?

To quickly eliminate negative, hidden subconscious beliefs so you can achieve the results you're after, be at your fullest power, and be influential as your results speak louder than your trash-talk.

This bonus includes three complimentary sessions, valued at $750 ($250/session).

I've spent thousands of dollars and many, many hours of my life reading, studying, in seminars, in training courses, and applying (a.k.a. being the guinea pig) these techniques to bring the best of the best tools to you in this unique Home Study Course, "Train Your Brain: Mental Strategies For Cycling" Course.

Your investment in your best results in races and on training only $997 $197 (special home-study kit pricing!)

 

Imagine How Well You'll Be Riding In Just A Few Short Weeks...

Imagine yourself now...Digging deeper than you've ever been able to before...with ease and effortlessness....Your friends wondering what "special sauce" you've been taking...People flocking around asking you how you did it...Your stress levels at home and at work are even lower, and people are starting to notice your glow...Finding that extra "ooomph" to kick it over the top of climbs, with extra energy to pull away...Coming across that finish line with your arms up, watching the perfect race unfold before you....


These people could be cheering for YOU!
(Tour de France 2010. photo © Cynthia Lou )

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