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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#411 - Look For Approval From Yourself

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Train with an empty cup, always looking to learn. The questions never end and athletes with a mind open to improvement find the most enjoyment. Finding that passion is what keeps you engaged and having the most fun in a sport that can be demoralizing if you let it. Don’t try to impress your coach, spouse, arch rival, or kids, impress yourself. The races are coming and there are no failures, only opportunities to learn.

Topics:

  • Questions never end in this sport
  • Inspire Your Own Journey
  • Burn out rate
  • There’s no finish line
  • Never giving up on athletes
  • Coaches don’t “make” athletes be ready
  • “Learned” coaching as kids
  • Flipping your own switch
  • Who are you looking to for approval?
  • Have you disappointed your coach?
  • Where do you set your bar?
  • Put less pressure on yourself
  • React to losing like the pros
  • The collectors after Mike
  • What upsets Coach Robbie
  • When people force their reality on others
  • Don’t live in other people’s misery
  • The races are coming
  • A C26 Athlete Set to Swim the English Channel
  • Find ways to continue to push yourself
  • You grow or you don’t
  • It’s been really easy to be negative, don’t be
  • There’s never a better time to get up and do what you want
  • It doesn’t have to be perfection, start something . . .
  • Monks and the key to happiness
  • Following your passion and be productive
  • What upsets Mike

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Here we go, my man.

0:17.1

Hey, welcome aboard.

0:19.5

You appreciate you all tuning in. Today, it's Thursday, hey, hey, hey, welcome aboard. You appreciate you all tuning in.

0:21.1

Today, it's Thursday, September 24th, 2020, and welcome aboard.

0:26.1

Crushing Iron Podcast episode, let me get you the 401.

0:32.5

I like it.

0:33.3

Yeah, thank you.

0:34.3

The 401, so we'll call us one.

0:36.2

All the info you need, all the hacks, all the expert advice from two professionals.

0:41.0

No, that's not what we do.

0:42.5

If your first time tuning in, hey, we appreciate it.

0:45.3

We know you have a lot of options out there in the triathlon podcast universe and just podcasts in general.

0:50.4

And we know your time is valuable and giving us that.

0:53.7

That says a lot.

0:54.6

That humbles us oftentimes.

0:55.9

We appreciate you having us or tuning in rather.

0:59.1

And we cover, yes, we cover all things, triathlon and all things life.

1:04.1

We do cover swim, bike, run, nutrition, race recaps, race previews.

1:09.2

We have on the occasional guests.

1:14.5

Happy sad. Happy sad. what is happy and sad we cover that we do can we cover happy and sad yeah we cover all the feelings we cover all

1:20.4

the feelings that you might have on any given day uh we do we cover it all um yeah for the most part

1:26.0

mike and i is both coaches and athletes we just

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