#376 - Fitness over Speed
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Do you get caught up in the numbers or look at the body of work? Athletes have to understand that fatigue masks fitness and shooting for numbers or speed on every workout is a losing proposition when it comes to racing. Today we talk about training in heat, preparing for specific courses and why understanding accumulated stress is the secret to racing. Your race isn't today, so what are you doing to get better?
Topics:
- Podcasting future
- Losers on Netflix
- The Heat is on . . . did you just get slower?
- Judging fitness in a vacuum
- General fitness vs. Performance Fitness
- It’s how your body handles stress
- Do you recover well after intervals?
- Can you replicate intervals?
- You can’t always chase a speed or a number
- We become our own reality of who we think we are
- Your fastest days could be more about conditions
- Creating fitness for Wisconsin or Florida?
- You hit it in training but not the race
- Training for specific race courses
- Fitness is about ability to bounce back
- Time running vs. distance
- Stress score points
- Tired legs and accumulated fatigue
- Fatigue masks fitness
- What are you trying to build?
- What are you trying to become?
- When you’re too tired to show off your engine
- Expressing current fitness vs. Durability
- Today is not the race, so what are you doing?
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| 0:00.0 | But it's having that patience to not want to show yourself that, you know, and burn a match every single week and just try to see an extra interval of speed. |
| 0:08.7 | But then also understanding the bigger picture, which is what kind of fitness am I trying to build? |
| 0:14.4 | Am I trying to build the fitness that can hit up track Tuesday and, you know, to have my best 400 meter interval of the year, but I'm shelled |
| 0:22.0 | for two or three days, and then I'm not actually holding or increasing my aerobic fitness, |
| 0:26.8 | and I'm not actually able to run for a long period time because I'm not running enough. |
| 0:29.9 | Like, what are you aiming for? |
| 0:31.4 | And that's a conversation every athlete, especially every self-coached athlete has to have |
| 0:35.5 | with themselves, is what exactly am i trying to build |
| 0:39.3 | happy memorial day buddy hey dude happy may 25th 2020 is Memorial Day. It's a holiday. Most of you |
| 0:56.3 | are relaxing by the pool, on the beach, grilling out dogs, having hamburgers, sipping on |
| 1:02.6 | peanut colladas and margaries with your buddies. Mike and I are settled down, isolated, and |
| 1:08.9 | here on our respective couches and beds, recording this somewhat |
| 1:13.2 | spirited podcast for today. |
| 1:16.6 | Spirited. |
| 1:17.2 | No, that's not going to be spirited. |
| 1:18.4 | But hey, we appreciate you all tuning in. |
| 1:20.5 | I would hope at least and imagine most of you are going to listen to this on a Tuesday |
| 1:24.6 | and not peruse and take advantage of our podcast. |
| 1:29.3 | Today, as we are releasing it, which is today, Monday, we generally don't take any breaks, |
| 1:33.7 | but we'll come to you twice a week. |
| 1:34.9 | Most of the time, Mondays and Thursdays, we give you triathlon-related info, races, race |
| 1:40.7 | recaps, interviews of race directors, race previews, you name it, we cover it, |
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