#271 - Building Winning Habits in Triathlon
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Habits are also how you think. Everyone says they want to get better, but not everyone is willing to continue to move forward to the point where they don't have more to give. A lot of people talk the talk, but are you really doing the work it takes to get better, but more importantly break the chains of bad habits.
Topics:
- What feels better than open water?
- A lonely and isolated sport?
- The Chains of Habit
- You Can't Fake Swimming
- Are you doing the work to crush tomorrow?
- Swimming while conserving energy
- Translating Swim Workouts to Open Water
- Swimming is the polar opposite of data
- Keys to a faster bike
- Light bikes vs. Heavy bikes
- Habits: Doing things more than you don't
- Fast Tracking New Behaviors
- The Pull Buoy Myth
- You're Thinking Yourself into Anxiety
- Why The Swim is Important
- Confidence and Relaxation in Swimming
- It's NOT just like "riding a bike"
- How to flow with open water contact
- 54:50 - "change my entire day"
- Swimming your own race
- Two Swim Pro Tips ;)
- Sun Screen Tip :)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | most of us have bad habits we want to break. |
| 0:03.9 | We just don't want to break them bad enough to make the changes that, you know, |
| 0:09.0 | are going to reflect the goal or the expectation that we ultimately want. |
| 0:13.4 | We just make excuses about why we haven't changed. |
| 0:16.8 | But the real reason is I've just chosen not to. |
| 0:29.5 | What's on your mind, coach? |
| 0:32.4 | Oh, happy Memorial Day. |
| 0:33.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.7 | Feels good, man. |
| 0:37.5 | It is good. Holiday cast, welcome aboard, the. It is good. |
| 0:39.7 | Holiday cast, welcome aboard, |
| 0:43.0 | crushing iron podcast, episode 271, |
| 0:46.2 | every Monday and Thursday for, as we said, |
| 0:49.1 | 271 episodes. |
| 0:52.0 | And we hope you're enjoying your day off. If you're stuck at work, |
| 0:53.7 | hopefully we can help you pass the time quickly. |
| 0:56.1 | If you're out grilling and hanging out with your family, stop listening to us and go back |
| 1:00.5 | and hang out with your fam. |
| 1:02.7 | But yeah, welcome. |
| 1:03.9 | We just finished up a great swim camp and are pretty jazzed about a lot of things, including |
| 1:09.0 | swimming. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah, swimming's on the mind, for sure. |
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