English (American) reading for audiobook ( Atomic Habits)
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atomic habits by James Clear Chapter One. The surprising power of atomic habits The fate of British cycling change. One day in 2003, the organization, which was the governing body for professional cycling in Great Britain had recently hired Dave Brailsford as its new performance director at the time. Professional cyclists in great Britain had endured nearly 100 years of mediocrity since 19 oh eight, british riders had won just a single gold medal at the olympic Games and they had fard even worse in cycling's biggest race, the Tour de France in 100 and 10 years. No british cyclists had ever won the event. In fact, the performance of british writers have been so underwhelming that one of the top bike manufacturers in europe refused to sell bikes to the team because they were afraid that would hurt sales if other professionals saw the brits using their gear, Brailsford had been hired to put british cycling on a new trajectory. What made him different from previous coaches was his relentless commitment to a strategy that he referred to as the aggregation of marginal gains, which was the philosophy of searching for a tiny margin of improvement in everything you do Brelsford said the whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike and then improve it by 1% you will get a significant increase when you put them all together Brailsford and his coaches began by making small adjustments you might expect from a professional cycling team, They redesigned the bike seats to make them more comfortable and rubbing alcohol on the tires for better grip. They asked riders to wear electrically heated over shorts to maintain ideal muscle temperature while riding and he's biofeedback sensors to monitor how each athlete responded to a particular workout. The team tested various fabrics in a wind tunnel and had their outdoor riders switched to an indoor racing suit, which proved to be lighter and more aerodynamic, But they didn't stop there, Brelsford and his team continued to find 1% improvements and overlooked and unexpected areas. They tested different types of massage gels to see which one led to the fastest muscle recovery. They hired a surgeon to teach each rider the best way to wash their hands to reduce the chances of catching a cold, they determine the table pillow, mattress that led to the best night's sleep fridge writer even painted the inside of the team truck white, which help them spot little bits of dust that would normally slip by unnoticed but could degrade the performance of finely tuned bike As these hundreds of other small improvements accumulated, the results came faster than anyone could have imagined. Just five years after Brailsford took over the British cycling team dominated the road and track cycling events at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where they won an astounding 60% of the gold medals available. Four years later, when the olympic Games came to London, the brits raised the bar as they set nine olympic records and seven world records. That same year, Bradley Wiggins became the first british cyclist to win the Tour de France The next year. His teammate Chris Froome won the Tour de France, and he would go on to win again in 2015, and 2017, giving the British team five Tour de France victories in six years.