#304 - Moving The Needle
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
How do you move Speed and Durability Needles for long distance racing? Planning your calendar in cycles and blocks is one of the trickiest parts of training. Mike talks about some mistakes he made going into Wisconsin and Coach Robbie gives us lots to think about when it comes to improving cardio vs. building your chassis. Plus, the key to "un-loading," why hills are so important, and how to prepare for open water swimming.
Topics:
- Open Water Swim Mentality
- How to prepare for Open Water
- Why certain bikes have more drafting
- Why Mike botched the IMWI swim
- How to Swim Ironman Chattanooga
- How to Swim Ironman Louisville
- There’s no substitute for 25’s and 50’s
- Understanding Training Blocks
- Why we get “over-trained”
- The key to “un-loading”
- Handling Odd Work Schedules
- Cardio improves faster than the Chassis
- Why Hill Work is so Important
- How much should we push the needle in running?
- How do we find the breaking point?
- Speed vs. Durability
- Giving yourself more time
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| 0:00.0 | There's too many athletes like to add two different types of stress at the same time. |
| 0:06.7 | They like to have speed and they like to add volume because more is always better. |
| 0:11.0 | But most times you can only add one type of stress because if you had two types of stress |
| 0:14.9 | where you're increasing weekly volume and duration and speed, your body can only handle so much stress. |
| 0:20.2 | All right. |
| 0:22.8 | Where am I going to find this? |
| 0:25.6 | You know, am I going to reduce the total run volume? |
| 0:30.2 | And now we're going to do maybe one, two quality sessions a week where we push it a little bit. |
| 0:30.5 | And is that going to be enough? |
| 0:31.5 | And again, that goes back to planning your entire year. |
| 0:37.0 | And so like when athletes say, hey, you know, |
| 0:39.2 | I'd like to work with you as a coach, you know, when should I get started? |
| 0:43.3 | I'm like, tomorrow. |
| 0:57.8 | And here we go with the crushing area podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | Man, coming out of the gate strong as well. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm bringing it. |
| 1:03.0 | You're fired up. |
| 1:05.1 | You're fired up? |
| 1:11.2 | I mean, your version of fired up is like, you know, like a flashlight. |
| 1:14.3 | It's usually pretty tame. |
| 1:19.8 | Unless it's race week, and as we all found out, that fire can burn bright. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm like a candle on the side of a bathtub. |
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