#265 - Testing Your Limits
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Are you going through the motions, or testing your comfort zone? Do you train with people who focus on growth or get stuck in a routine? No matter who you are, there is always room for growth. Our potential is vast, but we have to find ways to push ourselves and test the limits. Even if that means we won’t have something pretty to post on Instagram or Strava.
Topics:
- Confidence, Consistency, Community
- Giving athletes opportunities
- Put yourself in a situation to be vulnerable
- How to breakthrough with confidence
- Mike fixes a lawnmower
- New locations and breaking limits
- Day to day regiments can create comfort zones
- Why we conform to our own constraints
- How to see yourself as a better athlete
- Making yourself uncomfortable
- Are you going through the motions?
- Taking challenges head on
- Robbie’s Open Water Swim Soap Box
- When to choose Open Water practice over the pool
- Why mental breakthroughs are more memorable
- How to break the routines of your ride and run routes
- Group and training partner traps
- Find people who are supportive of growth
- How to see growth outside of your pace
- Recognizing gains that aren’t obvious
- Changing behavior with consistency
- Coaching is setting you up for success
- Mental and emotional shifts
- Don’t forget who you are
- Being paralyzed with “fine"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's not a competition. |
| 0:05.5 | It's growth. |
| 0:07.1 | The growth potential is there is no limit. |
| 0:11.3 | And that's the only measurement that you should have when you train or when you come to a training camp or when you go work out with the group. |
| 0:17.6 | It shouldn't be in my first or last. |
| 0:19.6 | It should be who was I when I showed up today? |
| 0:23.4 | And who was I when I left? |
| 0:31.6 | Good morning, Coach Robbie. Welcome back, May 6th, 2019, Crushin' Iron Podcast, episode 265. |
| 0:42.7 | Yep. |
| 0:43.2 | Man, you must have the counter handy. |
| 0:45.4 | No, I'm telling him, I've been on a pretty good groove here, and we've had a lot of really good feedback here the last few podcasts and so when people have |
| 0:55.2 | like emailed in or commented they've been they've been very specific in uh telling us or |
| 1:02.6 | telling myself or posting like what specific podcast it was and so it's kind of help me it's |
| 1:08.3 | kind of help me stay in the moment and stay in tune to what the actual number it is that we're on. |
| 1:13.3 | And, yes, crushing our podcast, 265, every Monday and Thursday, we come to you, and we appreciate you listening. |
| 1:21.8 | We do. |
| 1:22.9 | Man. |
| 1:23.7 | I got to tell you, man, I've been up early today. |
| 1:28.1 | Really? Oh, yeah. I've been up early today. Really? |
| 1:29.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:30.8 | Okay. |
| 1:31.4 | Well, seven. |
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