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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#243 - Growth Is More Than The Numbers

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Do you expose yourself to situations that will make you better on race day? How do you handle race day energy? Today we talk about all kinds of ways to use training instead of letting training use you, including building muscle control in the brain that will better prepare you for races and life. 

Topics: 

  • Swim Analysis 
  • The Inconsistency of Devices
  • Don't Peak Too Early 
  • Under-fueling 
  • Having honest conversations with yourself
  • Treating the training Day as a Day
  • Putting Yourself In Different Environments
  • Understanding Effort as it applies to results
  • Build the Chassis to Use The Engine
  • Creating a solid mental and emotional chassis
  • It's Easy to blame fitness
  • Are You Building The Ability To Suffer?
  • The days of perfect race conditions seem to be gone
  • Adjusting your emotional governor
  • What are you willing to expose yourself to?
  • How fragile is your psyche'?
  • Racing is Troubleshooting 
  • The Race Energy
  • When Perfect Pat merges with Obstacle Oliver
  • Patient Pete 
  • The courage to keep self-exploration 
  • Pineapple on Pizza??

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ah, what a beautiful way to start off on Monday.

0:14.9

Man, you were a quick trigger this morning.

0:18.9

I was bummed that I was a little late.

0:21.7

902.

0:28.0

I just looked like 30 seconds, and not even 30 seconds before you just buzzed me in.

0:29.2

And it said you were offline.

0:32.1

And then I went to a different screen and there you are.

0:32.7

I know.

0:33.7

I know.

0:34.8

I came on.

0:38.7

I felt like I was slacking, man.

0:40.2

Yeah, it's all right, man.

0:40.8

It's Monday morning.

0:42.2

Everybody else is slacking on Monday.

0:44.9

Yeah, we haven't seen the sun in about three weeks. God, dude, it is.

0:46.2

I was just commenting on that with somebody's trainee peaks.

0:49.6

No, I was actually, I was doing a swim analysis this morning and uh this this fella from

0:59.2

california decided uh he had the nerve to send me a video of him swimming in an outdoor pool

1:04.8

oh did he yeah it it uh it got me going but hey hey at least least some people get to enjoy the outside weather.

1:14.3

But, yeah, in Nashville, we haven't seen the sun, and I don't know how long.

1:18.7

So, you know, hey, it is what it is.

1:21.9

Allegedly we're supposed to see some sunshine later this afternoon,

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