#42 - Recovery: The Most Underrated Part of Training
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In order to train hard, you have to adapt and recover even harder. Or . . . you'll stay the same. Same athlete. Same issues. Same speed. Discipline takes focus, energy, and dedication. Your lifecycle as a triathlete doesn't end on the day of your A Race. It lasts as long as you want . . . until you quit. Recovery is the most underrated aspect of training and life. Today we hit all these topics and more.
• Nailing your training starts with nailing your recovery.
• Adjusting your recovery cycle to your body and lifestyle
• Reigning in a high-octane
• Why (and how) your coach should adjust to you
• What are the best signs that you're overtraining?
• How coffee affects your recovery
• Mentally and emotionally guiding your recovery
• What cravings for sugar, caffeine, and pizza really mean
• How being tired and being tempted work together
• The most underrated recovery tools on the market
• Why mental stress = physical stress
• How your fascia can affect your brain
• A surefire way to remain the same speed
• The magic of active recovery
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, man, I was just hitting you up on the other line. |
| 0:10.8 | What do you mean? |
| 0:12.0 | I was literally dialing you. |
| 0:13.6 | How many lines you got over there, bro? |
| 0:15.4 | Ah, dude, you know, keeping it pretty busy, man. |
| 0:18.7 | I got like six under the radar podcast with other guests i've |
| 0:23.0 | even told you about wow that's pretty impressive man you know i have one with my brother that |
| 0:28.1 | we've never aired uh my brother i'm coming huh yeah my brother is actually driving to florida right now |
| 0:36.8 | to conquer uh the ride across Florida. |
| 0:41.1 | I thought he gave that up. |
| 0:42.5 | I know. |
| 0:43.1 | I thought he did too. |
| 0:44.8 | Your brother is, uh, he's kind of an enigma. |
| 0:48.6 | He's, yeah, he's such an interesting character, though. |
| 0:51.3 | We should probably have him on the cast, actually. |
| 0:53.0 | Oh, yeah, man. |
| 0:53.9 | We'd love, I'd love to discuss his minimal lifestyle. He's, uh... character, though. We should probably have him on the cast, actually. Oh, yeah, man. I'd love to discuss his minimal lifestyle. |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah, and what it's like to video and spectate watching your family member do an Ironman. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, yeah, I think let's do it. |
| 1:07.1 | We could stay true and never release it, but we should definitely do it. |
| 1:11.2 | Well, that's true, too. |
| 1:12.2 | He's actually going to be here on Sunday on his way back through, I think. |
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