#410 - Exploring The Gray Areas and Dropping The Hacks
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We're back in Chattanooga at the C26 Hub and optimistic about a lot of things. The weather, the racing, the possibilities. Today, we look at cutting through the clutter and finding the simplest ways to feel good and perform your best. Coach Robbie talks his coaching philosophy and how it's changed over nearly 20 years. Mike explores his inner monk.
Topics:
- Back in the C26 Hub in Chattanooga
- The weather is making a difference
- Similarities in endurance sports
- Our podcast philosophy
- How Robbie’s coaching has changed since the start
- Covering the Gray Areas
- Danger of complacency
- Guiding principles of endurance
- Ignore the short cuts
- High Volume Responder?
- Coach’s big value discovery
- New and exciting all it’s cut out to be?
- When new is really old
- Collagen is now the thing
- How do you simplify training/life?
- Trying to get better and feeling good
- The hard part of trying to follow Pro triathletes
- Paying attention to the little things as a coach
- The best laid plans . . .
- Is training really “that” complex?
- Not being so rigid
- The Body/Car analogy
- The Tri-Calc math
- Yes, you can
- Finding that drive
- This SHOULD be IRONMAN Chattanooga week
- Missing that excitement
- Running etiquette
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| 0:00.0 | back at the hub back in studio welcome aboard today is September 21st, 2020, and this is the Crushing Iron podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | Back in studio again, episode 410. |
| 0:27.9 | Is it really? |
| 0:29.3 | Well, last week I made that Beach Boys reference of She's Real Fine, my 409. |
| 0:33.7 | Oh, that's right. |
| 0:34.2 | And that's the only reason I was able to remember what podcast it was. |
| 0:36.3 | Yeah, we were back in studio after doing a one day, three podcast deal before you and I both took a week off. And then |
| 0:45.8 | we were both traveling. You went to Madison. I went to Houston. We had a little C-26 tour in |
| 0:49.5 | Indianapolis, Madison, Houston, getting together our athletes in those areas, and we were gone. |
| 0:54.4 | And I recorded here via Skype. |
| 0:56.7 | So our last week's podcast from much more in line with the previous 390-ish that we had done. |
| 1:03.1 | But we were back, hopefully crystal clear on a Monday morning. |
| 1:06.1 | A, I have to say, beautiful Monday morning here in Chattanooga. |
| 1:10.8 | It is beautiful. There is on a Chattanooga. It is beautiful. |
| 1:12.5 | There is on a cloud in the sky. |
| 1:13.6 | It is crisp. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm in a hoodie. |
| 1:16.3 | It was, that's my perfect. |
| 1:17.8 | If I had to be a temperature, I'd be this. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.0 | This is, is this what they call like San Diego weather? |
| 1:23.2 | This is, dude, you took the words right on my mouth, man. |
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