#187 - Be Smart With "Days Off"
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Recovery is a major part of triathlon training, but a "Day Off" isn't always the right method. Today we get into why days off can derail you, along with looking at the next 24 - 48 hours in a different way, including "creating" days off without using one, and using two days to build one solid workout.
- Why Monday's Are the Worst Day To Take Off
- 24 Hours Doesn't Have To Be The Same Day
- Beating Negative Thoughts
- "Checking Out" is not The Best Recovery
- Training while you travel
- How Days Off Can Derail You
- Same Day Recovery
- Staying In The Groove after Vacation
- Coach Hints At What's Next For Him This Season
- One Mile At A Time
- Final Ohio 70.3 Recap
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Coach. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, Mike. |
| 0:13.7 | Good morning. |
| 0:14.5 | This is Monday, August 6th, 934, Central. Standard Time. And yeah, that's correct. This is the |
| 0:27.2 | crushing iron triathlon podcast. Welcome, everyone. Welcome. And happy Monday. It's good to be back on |
| 0:34.6 | central time for what is hopefully the next couple months. |
| 0:40.5 | I unpacked my suitcase last night for the first time since June 30th. |
| 0:48.0 | Wow. |
| 0:50.4 | Which, I mean, you know me just about as good of anybody besides Alley, and you know that I'm quite the homebody. |
| 0:57.4 | I like my routine. |
| 1:00.0 | I like things set. |
| 1:02.3 | I don't mind travel, but it's definitely not my favorite. |
| 1:06.7 | You know, a lot of variables can happen. |
| 1:09.2 | And driving and spending a lot of time of car. And so we |
| 1:11.6 | left for Florida, May 30th. We were there for a little over a week and then came back and then |
| 1:20.9 | I knew it was going to get pretty close to, we had something else. We were out of town for another |
| 1:25.1 | weekend. And then we had Ohio and then out of Ohio, I of town for another weekend. And then we had Ohio. |
| 1:30.7 | And then out of Ohio, I was home for three days. |
| 1:33.3 | And then we were back on the road to Virginia. |
| 1:39.0 | So, you know, a lot of stuff going on, but good stuff, fun stuff. |
| 1:40.7 | But it was nice. |
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