{"id":20537,"date":"2022-05-17T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/?p=20537"},"modified":"2022-05-17T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:17:07","slug":"heroic-cyclist-jacek-berruti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/blog-en\/heroic-cyclist-jacek-berruti\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of a heroic cyclist like Jacek Berruti and his healthy desire to try one more time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacek Berruti<\/strong> is one of those people with cycling in his blood. A true heroic cyclist<\/strong>. He had a good teacher, his father, Luciano, who gave him courage, foresight, goodness and an unbridled passion for the essence of cycling: a way to have fun and create harmony between people. This is why, on his birthday, we share a little story he wrote just before the beginning of spring. A reflection linked to an experience in which anybody could find themselves, with their human limits, but with the desire to always get better. Because cycling – whether it is for training, competition or any situation linked to healthy competition – is, above all, the desire to try again<\/strong>, to enjoy a magical moment that only a frame and two wheels can give you. Happy reading and.. happy birthday Jacek<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

\"Heroic<\/p>\n

“This happens weekly: as I leave work, my main thought is to get home to get moving. To unplug and recharge the batteries. It is evening, it is dark outside. I spent eleven hours away from home, and now I’m looking for a challenge that can really make me feel alive: so I turn to that multicolored tool that is the MagneticDays Jarvis smart trainer<\/strong>. Ready, set, go: cream on the saddle, towel, sweatband and the right playlist, let’s go. Intensity training, I feel it immediately: my heartbeats are high; my breath becomes a little short already during warm-up. Minutes go by, the going gets tough, too much. At minute 25 the AC\/DC ‘screaming’ in my ears are not enough to keep me going. Not even the photo of my dad in front of me; I don\u2019t want to, but I know that sometimes insisting can cause harm: so get off, give up and ‘see you tomorrow’ is the only choice. Usually giving up is not an option during my indoor and outdoor workouts<\/strong>. But so it is this time. I get down.<\/em><\/p>\n

Defeated, I think that perhaps I was too tired to train. Maybe I\u2019d better respect the recovery times: so I will put this behind me and try again tomorrow. The next day comes. Cream, playlist, bla bla bla: minute 23 this time. Can\u2019t do it. I curse, I stop the training, I get down and I wonder why. Can the meal plan I am following to the letter affect my performance? Yes, I have a food plan: I am training less than usual and I try to stay in shape only through what I eat.<\/em><\/p>\n

I decide to write Luca Bianchini<\/strong>, my MD Coach<\/strong>, a man of infinite experience<\/strong>. I explain what happened. He tells me I’m ‘low on carbohydrates’, and it is normal for my performance to drop: \u201cyou have to decide what your goals are\u201d. So I pass the ball to the nutritionist, who patiently explains to me in detail the wellness and health goals we had set. Mind you: I said well-being and health<\/strong>, not performance or results, I leave those to somebody else. And, if I do reach them, it will only be an indirect benefit.<\/em><\/p>\n

I return to Luca, who resets my workouts with a lower intensity percentage, and who assures me that soon, with little careful changes in my nutrition, I could have nice surprises. And I sure did! You never stop learning: this is yet another demonstration. I had put together a micro cosmos of sport-health-wellness that opened new horizons for me. The added value is having a coach who can personalize and constantly readjust the training to best suit my needs and goals. I’m being a \u201cguinea pig\u201d for myself and I like it, I enjoy it.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have the right tools, I have the right people around me and I am very, very lucky. For the record: with the new settings I finished the training as expected. The sweatband was back on, the playlist was \u201cright\u201d again and my “ego” gave a big sigh of relief, which is a reminder that every now and then, feeling at peace with yourself matters the most”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Jacek Berruti is one of those people with cycling in his blood. A true heroic cyclist. He had a good teacher, his father, Luciano, who gave him courage, foresight, goodness and an unbridled passion for the essence of cycling: a way to have fun and create harmony between people. This is why, on his birthday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":16882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[1561,1563,1308,158,1562],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=20537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21144,"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537\/revisions\/21144\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16882\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=20537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=20537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magneticdays.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=20537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}