#149 - Turning "Training Art" Into A Race Masterpiece
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
When is a painting (or your workout) finished? Unfortunately a lot of artists (triathletes) probably walk away without fine tuning the little things. Using a triathlon analogy, many of us leave workouts short because we think "we've done enough for the day" or flip the switch to lazy the minute the calendar turns to "taper." Today we talk about the little ways we can build discipline in workouts to create better long-term patterns and ultimately "Masterpiece Races."
- What Difference Does Skipping a 10 Minute Cool Down Make?
- Being Rested Vs. Rusty
- Not Minimizing What May Seem Like a Minimum
- Finishing Off Your Training - Setting Up Your Training To Finish The Race
- Overcoming Race Challenges
- Building The Discipline To Finish Your Workouts
- How We Create Bad Habits That Are Hard To Break
- Your Race Is Another Training Day That You Can't Quit
- Building Your Practice So You Know How To Close Out a Race
- How Effort and Decision Making Impact Your Race
- The Little Lies We Tell Ourselves and How They Build
- How Training Pressure Escalates Closer To a Race
- How We Self Sabotage Our Races In Taper
- Building Great Training Memories of Training Before Your Big Race
- The Details Matter When You're Closing In On a Race
- Why Training Is Art and Your Race is the Masterpiece
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Monday, |
| 0:11.5 | Man. |
| 0:13.5 | Happy Monday, Robbie. |
| 0:15.6 | Dude, I'm telling you, man, I'm just glad you're alive. |
| 0:19.5 | Well, I am alive. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm just usually alive at different hours than you. |
| 0:25.2 | Yeah, that's not necessarily sure, because you said you were up early this morning, |
| 0:30.1 | and I bet I was probably either up or close to being awake. |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah, I get in that gray zone, man. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm telling you. |
| 0:37.4 | As we always say, there is nothing good about |
| 0:40.7 | the gray zone. I know it. You're right. I just cruised through the gray zone for a little while and |
| 0:46.4 | ends up wiping me out. No, I was up late painting because when I'm thinking about what can I do |
| 0:53.5 | to make life better for our athletes today. |
| 0:57.7 | That's the kind of thing I think about. |
| 0:59.0 | So last night I was painting because I'm hosting athletes for the camp. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, I'm happy about it. |
| 1:07.1 | I just got carried away. |
| 1:09.0 | I need a little discipline. |
| 1:10.4 | You do need. Hey, remember, you got to recover. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, that's true. |
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