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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#274 - Epic Challenge Syndrome/ Respect Your Body

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Do you suffer from "Epic Challenge Syndrome?" What's the cut off line when pushing your body to get faster and stronger? And how do you gauge it? If there's one golden rule in triathlon (especially as we get older) it's "Respect Your Body." Taking things slowly almost always wins. Today we look at ways to produce longer and healthier careers in triathlon and the bedroom (well, kidding on the last part, but maybe not?). 

  • Epic Challenge syndrome 
  • Building speed and longevity
  • Healthy conversations with your body
  • Depression, Anxiety
  • Volume and Moods
  • Finding the Right Volume
  • Load Volume in Taper 
  • Are you Bought In?
  • Training on the Defensive
  • Confidence In Your Coach
  • Eat when you're ready instead of rushing
  • Races aren't ever the same
  • How to measure fitness
  • Outshooting your Fitness
  • THIS is the hardest race you've done
  • Can you sleep with your results?
  • Effort and Pain 
  • What you give should be enough

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If I'm anticipating taking more days off than not, then by all means, crush myself.

0:08.6

But when you flip that switch of today was awesome and I really want to make tomorrow awesome,

0:13.2

so instead of staying up an extra two and a half hours watching some stupid Netflix documentary,

0:17.5

I'm going to go to sleep because I want to try at least repeat it if not make it better tomorrow.

0:23.6

And you can't do that by wiping yourself clean every single day.

0:36.9

Oh, you caught me off guard there, buddy.

0:39.7

Geez.

0:40.4

Better late than never.

0:42.4

Yeah, well, or early than never.

0:45.2

Early than, yeah.

0:46.0

I mean, it's like the...

0:47.1

We're early and late.

0:48.5

We're early, well, technically, we're neither.

0:50.2

We're always on time since we produce a podcast twice week for totally free.

0:54.6

We're never really late.

0:56.1

No. Right.

0:57.9

We are never really late.

0:59.7

But welcome to that free podcast, crushing iron, triathlon podcast, episode 273?

1:09.3

274.

1:10.4

I mean, I got, I mean I got

1:11.3

listen this

1:11.9

I gotta get back on track

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