#340 - Race Weight - Go With Your Gut
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
We are by no means experts, but today we take an open look at the never ending debate over weight loss and proper race weight. Everything is on the table including body image, guilt, shame, binge eating, strength vs. optimum weight, and power per kilo. Triathlon is often a road to weight loss, but changing a lifestyle comes with a lot of stress and cutting calories is a slippery slope. We talk about finding your race weight and when to be at it. So many diets, so many choices, but what works best for you?
Topics:
- Go too hard too soon
- Proving yourself in practice
- Weight Control
- Body image
- Strength vs Weight
- Power per kilos
- Comparing to other people
- Binge eating
- Hydration and diet
- Stress and pounding and weight
- Periodizing your training
- “Perfect” Race Weight
- Giving the body time to adjust
- Changing too much at once
- Societal categories
- Intuitive eating
- What’s best for you?
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| 0:00.0 | it's like July, August, September, like some of those brutal times year and that's when |
| 0:05.6 | your highest volume is. So highest stress, highest need for recovery, highest need for nutrients, |
| 0:10.2 | highest need for fluid. You don't want to be cutting calories then either because all the extra |
| 0:18.0 | volume you're doing, all the extra intense you're doing is going to be negated or even worse. |
| 0:22.4 | And you see this with so many people. |
| 0:23.8 | Like the reason you feel sluggish and tired is oftentimes not because you're training too much, |
| 0:30.8 | is because you're not fueling well. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. and we're rolling. Welcome to our entire podcast. Man happy Monday today. If you're listening in real time, |
| 1:08.4 | and if you're just catching up, it's January 20th, 2020, and this is episode 340. 340th episode of the Crushing Iron Podcasts. Hey, how you doing, buddy? |
| 1:13.2 | I'm doing good, man. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm snowed in here in Nashville. |
| 1:17.8 | You got snow? |
| 1:19.3 | It's flaking out there. |
| 1:21.0 | I was going to say. |
| 1:23.5 | I looked out and I'm like, that looks like snow. |
| 1:26.2 | And then I thought, well, there goes today for |
| 1:29.5 | 90% of this town. 90% of national. I was like, yeah, you said snow didn't. I was like, man, I haven't |
| 1:34.9 | heard anything about like snow. We got nothing here. Obviously, chatting gets different weather, but |
| 1:38.9 | we're not that far away. But yes, you know that in the south if you get, because it's funny, because we see, |
| 1:45.6 | you and I, like, we both work with a lot of athletes that are in, like, Wisconsin, Minnesota, |
| 1:50.9 | you know, the northeast, like, all over and, like, parts of the country that, like, get legit |
| 1:55.9 | snow. I mean, you know this from going to Wisconsin. You know what legit snow is like and they'll like post pictures of like running like 10 miles on their yak tracks and like four degree temps and getting |
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