#258 - Appreciate The Big Picture
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 ⢠739 Ratings
šļø 12 April 2019
ā±ļø 59 minutes
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Summary
This is the first time in over two and a half years we've missed a Monday or a Thursday release, and the reason is a good one. It also sets up the bigger discussion about how we should be grateful to be able to do this sport and why it's important to appreciate that every day of training. We do this for fun, for hobby, and to feel good. As always, strive to be healthy and happy first.Ā
Topics:Ā
- Robbie's Mom Story
- Slow vs. Fast and when
- Work vs. Good Work
- Fine balance of feeling good and fatigue
- Doing workouts just because they're on the scheduleĀ
- Lack of sleepĀ
- Brain vs. Body StressĀ
- Do We Appreciate what we're doing for our Body and Mind?Ā
- Understanding "ALL OUT" in workouts
- Track Tuesday Tribulations
- Speed work IS NOT the only way to get fast
- What's your 5K "Effort" really mean??
- Bike Interval workouts
- Speed work on small increments Ā
- Instant feedback and speed workĀ
- Self-sabotageĀ
- Lance Armstrong Cadence Ideal?
- The Challenges of ModerationĀ
- Look at yourself as a person vs. an athleteĀ
- Explaining Zone 1, 2, 3, and 4
- How to find your ZonesĀ
- The psychology of different athletesĀ
- Finding flow and letting go of the mindĀ
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, man, what's happening? |
| 0:14.4 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:17.3 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:18.6 | And not a phrase. |
| 0:20.0 | We are accustomed to saying, but we're saying it today. |
| 0:25.1 | This may be in the history of our podcast, the first Friday podcast we've ever produced. |
| 0:30.8 | Yeah, there you go. That's a way to look at it. Yeah, we're always looking for first. This is my first three is my first three-hour ride on a, on a |
| 0:37.8 | Saturday in May where I've averaged a heart rate of 145 and watts of 230. First time, |
| 0:44.8 | hit it today. No, we, we'll post that. Yeah, I would too. First off, welcome, |
| 0:51.3 | crushing iron podcast. What are we? Episode 258. |
| 0:54.9 | Now I'm lost. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, it's too 58. |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah, it's 258. We don't need to give ourselves any extra credit. |
| 1:03.8 | We usually come to you every Monday and Thursday and have so for what's getting closer and closer to three years. |
| 1:10.6 | And we appreciate you joining us, but yesterday we did not come to you. |
| 1:16.1 | And we had to make some decisions. |
| 1:19.7 | Late, well, late is a relative term. |
| 1:24.0 | Wednesday evening around 9.30, if you've been listening to the podcast, you know that our family is kind of in-between moves. |
| 1:33.0 | We are moving to Chattanooga. Our house will not be ready until June. But we sold our house in February, so we're staying with my mom and her upstairs. And so, uh, that's where we're at now. |
| 1:45.7 | And around 9.30, which is late for us, for Allie and I, uh, in Hayden, uh, Hayden just was |
| 1:52.4 | struggling to, to go to sleep Wednesday night. He was just super restless. And so we were still awake, |
| 1:57.9 | um, which usually been trying, we try to get in bed between eight and nine. And all of a sudden we just heard this like smack, smack, which kind of sounded like a door. |
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