#256 - Understanding Your Taper
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We start with a little more about "training progression" and how to let go of perfectionism. Then we move onto tapering. Explaining why your taper may look different than someone else's. Also, how fitness plays into the taper and how to be fresh and ready to spring from the gate on race day.
Topics:
- Exciting time of the year
- Oceanside, TX 70.3
- More on training "Progression"
- We all learn differently
- Choosing a coach
- Pre-race nerves
- What your taper should look like
- Does your taper need more tension?
- Peak to taper phases
- How do you know if you're nailing taper
- Race sharpening vs. being lazy
- Appropriate Load in your taper
- Your body as a race car
- Trust the process
- Training Through a Taper
- The Golden Rule for fatigue
- Being crisp and emotionally fresh on race day
- What does fitness and Improvement look like?
- Fitness + Resilience = Success
- Turning Fast into Far
- How to begin an Ironman marathon
- Impulse decisions
- Put Long-Term Development first
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, buddy? |
| 0:12.3 | Yeah, same to you. |
| 0:15.4 | How are you? |
| 0:16.4 | You're good? |
| 0:17.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.9 | We hope you're good. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:27.6 | Crushing Iron podcast podcast episode 258 oh man did you do you not have the counter hand we've moved and i can't place it the moment i think hayden like took |
| 0:32.6 | the counter i know it's like actually podcast 256 or something oh yeah you're right 256 yeah 256 but hayden i think likes it he plays it um and he's working on it's like actually podcast 256 or something. Oh yeah, you're right. 256. Yeah, 256. But Hayden, I think, likes it. He plays it. And he's working on his numbers. |
| 0:42.0 | So I think we've been using as like a studying tool. |
| 0:46.0 | Oh. So I actually don't know where it is, but it's actually a great studying tool to learn numbers. |
| 0:50.6 | But that's where it is. And that's his status, and we hope your status is good. |
| 0:55.4 | And again, appreciate you joining us, crushing Iron Podcasts, episode 256, every Monday and Thursday, |
| 1:04.6 | and here we are. Thursday, race week for a lot of people, I know. race week it's a it's actually one of the more |
| 1:12.9 | fun times of the year i mean it's all fun but there's just it now begins like the cascade of |
| 1:19.8 | never-ending events almost like it's just going to be every other week everyone gets to get |
| 1:25.0 | excited now which is actually good timing because it's, we're generally |
| 1:29.9 | entering one of, if not the most absolute, boring periods of major sports for guys like me who have |
| 1:39.1 | zero interest in what they call baseball. I can see her interest. |
| 1:47.6 | And I couldn't care less about spring football. |
| 1:49.7 | Like, what a waste of time to get interested in. |
| 1:51.3 | So it's good to fill a gap. |
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