#288 - When Good Is Better Than Great
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Should you put more weight on your great workouts or bad? Probably neither because it's a process and everything is a building block. As the pressure builds it's more important to stay level when evaluating yourself. Take a look at where you've come from and figure out how a bunch of "good" workouts are the best way to great.
Topics:
- The Spectrum of Athletes
- Beginner, Improver, Kona Qualifier?
- Short Term Memory, Long Term Appreciation
- Good Days, Bad Days
- After the Excitement Wears Off
- Is It All About What's Next?
- Triathlon and Life Should Compliment
- Let Yourself Float
- The Life Metaphor
- Do we always have to have an answer?
- Three sports is like spinning plates
- Expectations are future resentments
- Why it's all about showing up
- Do you feel surprisingly good on Monday?
- Taking pressure off race goals
- Is "good" not enough?
- Shoot for Good over Great
- Can you restrain yourself in workouts?
- Strive for the Middle
- Appreciate what you're doing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Without knowing, you kind of touched out in one of my biggest pet peeves, which is, you know, I'll give a workout within a zone range for an athlete, especially on the bike. |
| 0:09.9 | Let's say it's eight intervals. |
| 0:11.4 | They will execute to perfection, the first seven. |
| 0:16.3 | They're nailing their zones. |
| 0:17.7 | They're nailing their, they're doing everything right. |
| 0:20.8 | But God forbid, I just execute executed make this a good workout. |
| 0:24.9 | That last rep baby, I'm going all out. I'm going zone six. I'm going to show you, I got it. |
| 0:31.4 | So you went from going a perfectly executed workout with the intended intensity, the intended amount of stress put on you, |
| 0:40.4 | the intended amount of hopefully fatigue and adaptation, and you wouldn't just totally |
| 0:45.0 | effed it up because you wanted to go cowboy to grate and you couldn't just ride your horse |
| 0:50.1 | to good. |
| 0:50.6 | Music to good. |
| 1:01.7 | Hey, hey, how's things at the head office? |
| 1:04.1 | Hey, happy Thursday. |
| 1:05.7 | Corporate office. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.1 | Corporate office H.Q, if you may, here in Chattanooga. |
| 1:15.0 | This is episode 288. |
| 1:17.6 | Yep. On point? |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah, sweet. |
| 1:19.0 | All right. |
| 1:19.3 | Welcome, Cursing Iron Podcast, episode 288. |
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