#183 - The Coach/Athlete Relationship, Plus More Listener Questions
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Battling "funks" is a huge part of triathlon training, but do coaches get them too? Today, Coach Robbie opens up about why he can get down on himself after a race weekend and how he digs out. We also get into listener questions involving picking your next race, stepping up to the next distance, and planning for next season, along with explaining the keys for finding the biggest gains in all three disciplines. Mike addresses his failed podium prediction.
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Today's Topics:
Do Coaches Have Funks, Too?
The Never-Ending Quest To Find Better Ways
Pre-Race Plan Thought Process
Why listening and adjusting are the keys to coaching
When Should A Coach Give Tough Love or Encouragement?
Mike Recaps His Podium Prediction Fail
What is the smallest change an athlete could make in each discipline that would result in the largest gain? What little thing is holding you back?
When's the right time to start planning for next season?
What is the perfect race calendar? Does it have to go in order by distance? Where does camp best fit/benefit?
How do you know when the right time to move up to the next race distance? What should you look for?
How do you know when the right time to move up to the next race distance? What should you look for?
Would You Train if You Didn't Race?
How Mike and Robbie Met
Planning for Ohio
Coach Robbie and Mike, along with 12 or so Crushing Iron coached athletes will be at Ohio 70.3 this year so please say hi if you see them around.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There he is. |
| 0:09.3 | Hey, there he is. |
| 0:10.6 | Good morning, Robbie. |
| 0:12.8 | How are you? |
| 0:13.8 | I'm doing okay. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm kind of in a little funk, but I'm all right. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh, really? |
| 0:18.2 | A little, I'm a coaching funk. |
| 0:20.7 | Oh. Yeah. Just had one of those weekends where I didn't feel like I did a very good all right oh really a little i'm a coaching funk oh yeah |
| 0:22.6 | just had one of those weekends where i didn't feel like i did a very good job so i feel |
| 0:25.8 | like you just kind of get in a funk and |
| 0:27.9 | as i was just texting with another athlete that you know i get 24 hours just |
| 0:33.0 | like the athlete does to either be super pumped and super proud of what I feel like I've accomplished, |
| 0:38.4 | or I get 24 hours to basically sulk and be frustrated, and then I move on. |
| 0:46.8 | When you say frustrated, you mean just with some race results? |
| 0:50.8 | No, no, no, not with results. |
| 0:53.3 | Not with results. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah, I mean, I think that, uh, I mean, results, you know, when you, when you try to, like, |
| 1:05.9 | detach from an outcome, the results just kind of are what they are. And you can't, I mean, just, I can't preach on one end, you know, you can't have these time goals because you never know what's going to happen and races are different and there's, you know, different conditions and circumstances and your body is this way. |
| 1:23.3 | But I think just, you know, on some weekends, you just, you have great results and you have |
| 1:29.2 | results where you feel like you could have done a better job coaching. |
| 1:33.0 | I think that's just kind of, which is totally normal. |
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