#329 - 7 Essentials for a Triathlete's Christmas List
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What if you looked at your Christmas wish list as a way to help you be a better triathlete? Today, we break down 7 essential and affordable items that might not be the flashiest things but will definitely help you feel and perform better next year. Be a better swimmer, cyclist, runner, and racer with the Crushing Iron Essentials. Thanks for listening!
Topics:
- Sound investments for Triathletes
- Set Yourself Up for Success
- The Seven
- 1. A Race Fueling Plan
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- The most underrated item for racing
- Figure out your exact formula to fuel race day
- Don’t wing it
- Most of us under-fuel by massive amounts
- Fueling to lose weight vs. performance
- You’ll need time to train your gut
- 2. The biggest pull buoy you’ve ever seen
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- The pull buoy is meant to assist you to swim more
- Especially for weak upper body athletes
- 3. A really good bike fit
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- Find a reputable fitter
- Crank length and contact point
- Shims in shoes, right pedals
- Hip angle
- 4. Outdoor run gear
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- Training inside wears at you
- Get used to being relaxed in cold
- 5. The 3 A’s - Accountability/Affirmation/Allies
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- Someone, or something
- A positive supporter
- 6. Power Meter over Smart Trainer
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- Buy function over entertainment
- Keep it simple, work hard
- 7. Bet on Yourself
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- Buying things is an extension of not believing yourself
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| 0:00.0 | If you have to invest in anything this coming year, |
| 0:08.7 | hit a pick one out of those, out of those, this seven. |
| 0:12.8 | Invest in yourself. |
| 0:15.1 | Music Good Thursday morning, Coach Robbie. |
| 0:29.1 | Good morning, Michael. |
| 0:30.9 | It must be ready to. |
| 0:31.7 | It's that. |
| 0:36.6 | It's that. |
| 0:36.9 | It's awful. It's like, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingled. I'm in the spirit All the way. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm in the spirit. |
| 0:46.2 | You are in the spirit. |
| 0:48.5 | You know, it's funny, I didn't wake up in the spirit. |
| 0:55.8 | As most of these seven or eight listeners, know I'm a Thanksgiving fan but I have I was walking back at the office |
| 0:57.9 | day, I was walking by the kitchen |
| 1:00.0 | and there was a person |
| 1:02.0 | handed out candy |
| 1:04.0 | canes. |
| 1:05.5 | Ooh. Yeah, which is |
| 1:07.8 | a very underrated candy in my |
| 1:09.9 | opinion, but it got me in the Christmas spirit. And right before that I had sent you a text, I don't know if you got it or not, but that we would have a little, little Christmas cast today. But I did not get it either. |
| 1:22.8 | No, yeah, we're going to do a little, yeah, I noticed that when you started Skyping me at 10, but we, yeah, we're going to have a little Christmas cast today. |
| 1:30.2 | And, hey, if it's your first time listening, we appreciate it, welcome aboard, crushing iron |
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