#433 – Are You Training Effectively . . . Or Just Getting More Tired?

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The ultimate questions: How much is too much, or is that enough? Today we walk through understanding the body and how you make gains or create losses in fitness based on minimal effective dose. We talk about the difference between Ironman and 70.3 training and how different athletes need different volumes. We also look at how best to approach Zone 2 workouts along with when you should make a decision to smash your legs. All in the them of why understanding your body outside of the numbers is the ultimate path to confident racing.

Topics:

Don't forget about the 2021 C26 Club, the training plan that lays out a full year of workouts around your races.
Mike and Robbie Rock n Roll Memory Lane
Understanding MINIMAL EFFECTIVE DOSE
Planning Races and Hopes for Accomplishments
The secret of NOT putting in volume
Moving up distance and hours to put in
The addiction of MORE
How you overtrain or hurt yourself
When your workouts are a negative
Getting the most out of the least
Burnout
Short Ironman Blocks
What if we plateau?
Are you training or just getting more tired?
Finding the mental and physical balance
What’s too much, what’s too often?
How to get your best daily response
Training volume for 70.3 vs. Ironman training
Managing stress appropriately
Why total training miles varies so much between athletes
Training is about loading stress
When sleep is better than a workout
Finding net positives vs net negatives
When you should push past prescribed volume
What to do when your body says “I’ve got more in me”
How to recognize when to quit a workout
Connecting perceived effort to your body and brain
Will an extra 30 minutes make you better or just “feel” better
Is what you’re doing necessary??
How to make the best in-race decisions
Believing that deep down we have the ability
“If you come into Ironman with no doubts and are totally confident, you’re overtrained.” - Sebastian Kienle
You should be confident enough that you don’t need to see it until you see it
Only a few matches to burn
Do you need to see it, or KNOW it?
Each training day should make sense
How you should approach Zone 2 rides
Recognizing “if you have it” today
Numbers and HR don’t matter unless you understand your body
How to CONTROL your race
Understanding Zone Range Average

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0:00.0	All right. That song fires me up every time.
0:22.1	Let's finally do it.
0:23.1	It's December 10th, the year 2020, that we will soon forget, hopefully, as quickly as possible.
0:28.7	This is the crushing iron podcast, and you were listening to episode 433.
0:33.6	Okay.
0:34.1	Is that right?
0:34.8	Yeah.
0:35.2	Sure.
0:35.8	That works for me.
0:36.7	It works for me too.
0:37.4	We appreciate you tuning in. If it's your first time joining us, hello right? Yeah. Sure. That works for me. It works for me too. We appreciate you tuning in.
0:38.6	If it's your first time joining us, hello there.
0:41.9	Stick around. We will negative split this podcast and bring you a lot of high knowledge,
0:46.0	entertainment towards the end, but we'll start it off nice and slow.
0:48.9	That's a huge promise.
0:50.1	That's a huge. I tend to try and, yeah, I know, I try to undersell over deliver.
0:54.2	Not much coming today.
0:55.4	Yes.
0:55.7	This is going to be terrible.
0:56.5	But please, thank you and stick around.
0:58.0	But no, we appreciate you too again.
0:59.4	We know you have a lot of options in the podcast universe, especially those that are
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