#313 - Keep Things Simple - The Professional Mindset
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about what it truly means to "want to get better" in triathlon. We look at how Age Groupers can benefit by taking the same training approach as the pros. We take a deep look at running for triathlon, including what speed really means and why less is often more in race season. Are you over-complicating training to distract yourself from the mission you truly want to accomplish?
Topics:
- Kona broadcast
- Fascinating Race
- Age Groupers Like to Complicate Things
- No Running for Kona?
- Fine Line Between Sick and Fit
- Travel and work loads
- Cam Wurf
- Fitness is Fitness
- Lucy Charles's engine vs. durability
- Running Durability
- Biking Translates to Run
- 1% overtrained is worse than undertrained
- Can you really get "sprint" faster?
- Biking for Your Run
- Build Your Run Foundation Now
- The body gets better on its own time
- There are no short cuts
- Triathlon as a way of life
- Overcoming overtraining
- One trick/One pace ponies
- Finding desire without a race on calendar
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I do. I totally believe this and I posted something around the same sentiment yesterday in our crushing iron Facebook or closed group for the podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | That was about how difficult age groupers like to make things. |
| 0:12.8 | I put in two quotes in there, but then one of the, I guess the analogy I gave, so I won't read the whole thing, was professionals are 2 plus 2 equals 4. |
| 0:20.7 | Age group athletes are 7 minus 2 plus 5 minus 9 plus 3 equals 4 |
| 0:25.0 | they want to complicate things as much as possible they want they want to spend more time thinking of |
| 0:30.7 | ways to make the shortcut shorter or the way to get to raising a performance shorter than they are |
| 0:36.2 | actually willing to be able to do the work. |
| 0:45.7 | Hey, coach. |
| 0:47.4 | Happy. |
| 0:48.2 | Happy Thursday. |
| 0:50.4 | Sorry, the delay there, my friend. |
| 0:52.4 | That's all right. |
| 0:53.3 | We, uh, hey, we're flexible, but we still arrive. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, but on time, yeah, as it should be, welcome aboard. |
| 1:00.0 | Crushing Iron Podcast, 313? |
| 1:03.2 | 313, it is. |
| 1:05.1 | 313, I kind of pulled that out of, you know, where. |
| 1:07.9 | You did? |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, I did. |
| 1:09.9 | Well, I remember we did the 3-11 because I got jokes on that. |
| 1:12.6 | So we knew we did that one. |
| 1:13.5 | We did it Monday. |
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