Chris Hoy wins gold in the track cycling men’s keirin at the 2012 Olympics
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What is the aggregation of marginal gains? British Cycling performance director David Brailsford explains the idea as taking every process involved in riding a bike and improving each and every part by 1%. The combination of all these small improvements results in a significant increase in performance.
Clive Woodward used a similar concept with the World Cup winning England rugby union team. Woodward states that improving performance isn’t about doing one thing 100% better, but about doing 100 things 1% better. He refers to the little things that add up to a measurable difference in performance as the ‘one percenters’.
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