Central Park Inline Skate | World Champion Joey Mantia

The life of living in New York is leaving your apartment on your skates and you go and you ring the bell on the 100 year old lift that is run by a real person. How's it going? Good man. I'm gonna head over to Central Park and do a little skate. There he is. My guy. It's hard to find a rhythm and a flow here. So many bumps. Double push really relies on smooth pavement. So if you have a lot of brakes or it's rough to get this free speed through here in this transition, you have to really have decent Pretty hard. See what happens. Just me, selfie stick, and a bunch of traffic. Oh, I'm hurting. Way too hard. Way too humid. Maybe I got it. I don't know. Didn't seem that it definitely wasn't that fast. Oh man, I feel like when I was being a real athlete and actually taking this serious and eating right, sleeping right, supplementing my nutrition, it's probably the biggest thing I've noticed that is missing. I feel like this was so much more enjoyable and easier. Just being able to push harder with less effort, or perceived effort at least. For me, there was three supplements I really didn't think I could live without when I was training, and that was beta alanine, choline, and ashwagandha. You've probably heard of beta alanine if you're a cyclist or high-end athlete. Choline, maybe. It's an essential nutrient that most people are deficient in, and ashwagandha is probably the least known one Indian root that helps regulate your stress hormone. The more you understand about how you train and why you train the way you do, and what's going on inside your body with hormones, the more that one makes a lot of sense. Beta alanine essentially is the lactic acid buffer. It helps the stuff that burns in your legs flush out. The choline is an essential nutrient that helps your brain talk to your muscles essentially, which is really important for athletes to be able to maneuver and increase cognitive function. Ashwagandha helps reduce your cortisol in a healthy way, and that's been my experience with those three. Noticeable differences when I'm taking them versus when I'm not taking them. Do your own research on those. If it makes sense, you can add it to your repertoire as needed, but maybe I'll do a follow-up at some point in the future about the dosages and the products that I was taking.