# JB Method

> Nervous system performance reset for elite athletes. A body-first method by Jani Brajkovič — former pro cyclist, World Tour rider, Olympian — focused on regulation, breath mechanics, recovery, and reliability under pressure.

## Pages

- [Home](/): What the JB Method is and who it's for.
- [The Method](/method): Awareness, Reset, Breakthrough, Mastery — the four-phase somatic performance system.
- [My Story](/my-story): How Jani built the method after years inside elite cycling.
- [Masterclass](/masterclass): Free video breakdown of the JB Method.
- [Articles](/articles): Newsletter on nervous system regulation, breath, recovery, and pressure.
- [Contact](/contact): Book a free 30-minute performance consultation.

## Articles

- [Why your easy days are exhausting](/articles/why-easy-days-are-exhausting): A first look at load leaks — and why recovery stops working when you need it most.
- [The stress budget: you're spending more than you think](/articles/stress-budget): Training stress is only part of the equation.
- [Sleep is a pressure skill](/articles/sleep-is-a-pressure-skill): Why sleep fails exactly when you need it most — and what your body is actually doing while you try to rest.
- [The sympathetic hangover](/articles/the-sympathetic-hangover): Why you're still paying for last week's load — and what Monday morning is actually telling you.
- [Pressure changes perception before it changes performance](/articles/pressure-changes-perception): The bridge between recovery deficit and competition output — through your nervous system.
- [The Freeze Trap: Why trying harder makes you slower](/articles/freeze-is-trapped-mobilization): Freeze is not the absence of energy.
- [The breathing myth athletes believe](/articles/why-breath-restriction-creates-anxiety): Why deep, fast breaths before competition reduce oxygen delivery — and how a longer exhale ends the anxiety spiral.
- [Why mouth breathing costs you more than you know](/articles/why-mouth-breathing-costs-you-more): Mouth breathing is a structural compensation, not a habit.
- [The three things that have to move before you can breathe](/articles/three-things-that-have-to-move): The nose is not the bottleneck.
- [The trunk decides what breathing costs you](/articles/the-trunk-decides-what-breathing-costs-you): Two athletes at the same FTP can have completely different sustainable hours.
- [The tax you pay for holding it together](/articles/the-tax-you-pay-for-holding-it-together): A body that has to hold itself together has no room left to breathe.
- [What happened after I won, and why it almost destroyed me](/articles/what-happened-after-i-won): Six months after the Dauphiné, my heart started skipping beats.
- [You can ride for seven hours. You cannot rest for ten minutes](/articles/marathon-vs-ten-minutes): Recovery is not the absence of work — it is a separately trained capacity.
- [Why some GC contenders will fall back in week 3 has nothing to do with talent](/articles/descent-not-talent): Why some GC contenders fall back in week 3 of the Tour has nothing to do with talent.
- [Your sleep score is measuring the wrong thing](/articles/sleep-score-wrong-thing): Your tracker runs an educated guess and presents it as a verdict — then the score itself makes your sleep worse.
- [Modern cycling nutrition is eating your career](/articles/cycling-nutrition-eating-career): The World Tour nutrition regime is sold as precision.
- [The bike that saved you can also break you](/articles/the-rider-nobody-warns-you-about): The cycling transformation everyone loves has a second half nobody films.
- [They spent 40 years calling it poison. Now they sell it in a gel](/articles/they-called-it-poison): Lactate was never waste.
- [The laziest sentence in sport is 'he's got the genes.'](/articles/the-laziest-sentence-in-sport): 'He's got the genes.' A close look at what the ACTN3 studies actually say, what environment does to a body from age 4 onward, and the four measurable ways this shows up in an adult athlete.
- [Relief is not repair](/articles/relief-is-not-repair): Every hard day drops the pressure and you feel better.
- [Your best result locked in your worst habit](/articles/your-best-result-locked-in-your-worst-habit): The 2006 Vuelta leader's jersey at 54 kilograms: why a real result is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a broken system.