Elite Lessons — Consistency over Innovation

This photo of and quote from the great Eddy Merckx hangs in a frame behind the spinning instructor’s bike at Revolutions in the Cayman Islands.

As I sit writing on a wet Sunday morning nursing a sore Achilles tendon, I’m missing my regular Sunday morning ride and would love to have got out on the bike, even on a wet day. After all, cyclists say “there is no bad weather, only bad clothing!”.

I’m also reminded of this Merckx quote, and, quite sometime after I left Cayman for London, today I will reflect on the lessons I learned from spinning at Revolutions and from that thought from Merckx and distil this to one thought on the value (in the right circumstances) of consistency over innovation.

About nine years ago I tried an indoor cycling class for the first time. I was instantly hooked and rode three times per week at the same studio for about nine years. If you love spinning and visit the Cayman Islands, the team of Jérôme and Cathy Ameline established Revolutions as the first studio in Cayman well over a decade ago. Go visit!

Oh, and in full open-ness, as a coach and someone who believes in having a sounding board, I model that belief by having several sounding boards I invest in for myself. One of them I work with remotely to this day is Cathy, who when she is not spinning, is a world-class…