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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#225 - Progress Not Perfection

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Trying to motivate yourself at "A-Race-Level" all the time is a surefire way to injury, fatigue, and burnout. In the name of sanity, this is a great time of year to set your bar low. Instead of looking at yourself through a "race-shape-filter" be who you are and Just Do Something. The little things you do now will keep you out of a funk and eventually put you in the right place to train hard when the time is right. 

Topics:

  • New Years Resolutions Based on December
  • Don't Call Yourself A Failure
  • Feeling Great Today isn't a License to Kill Yourself 
  • Running SLOW Explained 
  • Hanging on by a thread 
  • When and Why Most Injuries Happen
  • Let your body move in different directions
  • Embracing the basics
  • Just DO SOMETHING
  • What's the Root Cause of Your Funk?
  • Riding the Fence in Limbo
  • The Filters We See Ourselves Through
  • Why we bite off more than we can chew
  • How the little things pay off 
  • Training AVAILABILITY is key
  • The secret to building good habits
  • Late Season Active Recovery 
  • Fitness and Speed Go together
  • Defining a Durable Body
  • Quit Pulling Expectations out of Thin Air
  • Committing to the Big Picture

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, Robbie.

0:12.6

All right, man.

0:14.7

We're going to have to do this, like, I'm not sure what kind of meditation train you're on.

0:19.8

This is, like, the second instance where we've been communicating you have, like,

0:22.8

predicted the future.

0:23.9

Oh, yeah.

0:24.3

Yeah.

0:24.6

Yeah.

0:24.9

So for those of you, well, none of you are going to hear it.

0:27.5

But first, welcome to the crushing iron triathlon podcast.

0:32.3

Episode, what, 247?

0:34.6

247.

0:35.5

How about 225?

0:38.7

225. We tried to start this up about 10 minutes ago, and Mike was lamenting about his 97th Skype

0:46.9

update this month, and I was bragging that I hadn't had to do one, and he said that basically

0:52.3

that just means my computer's going to shut down. I don't know if you're new one. And maybe 10 seconds after that, my computer shut down.

1:00.4

So if you listened to a couple of podcasts ago, we talked about Mike's meditative power that he's been having that it was included in like the SEC championship game.

1:10.5

But we are back uh and hopefully

1:14.5

better than ever with our Skype update uh again the crushing iron triathlon podcast um every

1:21.3

Monday and Thursday and we appreciate you joining us yeah welcome back to what I like to call the

1:26.3

bad soap opera.

1:28.9

Really?

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