Digest 2.26.2021
Our bi-weekly collection of interesting articles, on-goings and tools for healing, expansion and connection.
Watch
The Perfect Ride with Leon Cerrone
With the recent release of Specialized new S-Works Aethos bicycle, they’ve produced a short film featuring Leon Cerrone and his idea of the perfect ride in London, UK. It’s an intimate look into some of Leon’s favorite spots, beautifully captured by Agnus Sung on a typically rainy day in the city. The new bike itself, was “designed with the perfect combination of ultimate ride feel, light weight, and style—from accelerating up steep pitches and descending technical descents, to all-day saddle comfort on even the longest coffee rides” | Link
Listen
James Clear on Getting 1% Better Every Day
James Clear is the author of one of my favorite books, Atomic Habits, which I just listened to for the second time in the last four months. It’s an essential and practical guide to re-shaping your life for conscious growth, transformation and success, in my opinion. On Ryan Holiday’s podcast, The Daily Stoic, James shares some of his experiences and insights for creating identity habits and goals and why that’s the only way to go | Link
Inner Work
How to Do Inner-Child Work for Healing Trauma and Self-Acceptance
Over the last few years I’ve gone deeper and deeper within myself to understand the world, who I really am and my core wounds as a human being. The more I understand, I feel confident that inner child work is vital to real healing and growth. My own experience has been life-changing, but it’s really only been the last couple months that I’ve specifically committed to spending time with little Ryan each day, and in a month it’s already been profound. Rising Woman founder Sheleana Aiyana has created a very useful guide for this work and she also provides a guided meditation that you can begin to use yourself | Link
Physiology
The Nue Co Vitamin D
I’ve been using @thenue_co products for a couple of years now from the Debloat to the Magnesium Spray, but its become more evident than ever in the last year that we need to do what we can do look after our own health and that starts with our nervous and immune systems. There have been studies that show nearly 80% of us are deficient in Vitamin D, which is vital not only for keeping our immune system strong, but for absorbing other vitamins and minerals, mental cognition and much more. Personally I don’t love taking too many pills either, so taking Vitamin D sublingually is easy and absorbs 2.6x better than a capsule. Three sprays gives you 3,000IU but I personally aim to take 10,000IU in the winter and 5,000IU in the summer. Right now you can get 20% off @thenue_co with code RYANNUE20 | Link
Tools
Reigning Champ Polartec® Power Stretch® Pro™ Tights
Polartec® Power Stretch® Pro™ is a 4-way stretch fabric with reinforced elastic fibres for durable shape recovery and high abrasion resistance. Combined with Dot Air mesh panels, this versatile midlayer is lightweight, highly flexible, and pulls moisture away from the body for faster evaporation during activity. Handcrafted in Vancouver, these are one of my favorite note items, both for wearing in the home office all day, but also for runs on cooler days | Link
Tags: Digest, Movement, Tools, Mindfulness, Nutrition