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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#440 – Let's Start Small

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Is life happening TO YOU or around you? The little things add up to tackle the hard things. Spend time and effort on things that are your choice. New habits, new patterns. Is anything wrong RIGHT NOW? Be in this moment and not in a problem that doesn’t exist. What are you choosing to lose as a person by not accepting daily challenges? Facing the invisible enemy head on, even when it’s in your mind. **The Club Package is still available for for a few more weeks. More info here:  

Topics:

  • Lessons from Chris Nikic, the first Down syndrome Ironman Finisher
  • The power of partners, guidance and community
  • When Ignorance (to the right things) is bliss
  • “When we feel secure and supported the way in which we see the world changes”
  • A surprise C26 meeting 
  • Creating your own little world in the world
  • When you’re at your best others benefit
  • When to tune out
  • The spotlight is on health . . . what’s next?
  • How are anxieties change and what they do for us
  • We’re not immune to morphing emotions
  • Bing in moments that don’t exist
  • Living in the “what ifs”
  • Facing fears and walking through them to grow
  • Finding peace in things that scare you
  • What’s the whole point??
  • The invisible opponent
  • Sedentary and scared
  • Building up those in your corner
  • The daily wins
  • We need to have a challenger
  • The difference between simple and simplistic and why it matters
  • The trap of “easy means doing nothing”
  • The older we get, the less we know?
  • Sometimes we just need to FEEL it 
  • Doing what’s in front of you instead of being distracted 
  • Filling the little holes every day
  • What’s gained in the early parts of a challenging process
  • New habits, new patterns
  • When impossible days become less impossible 
  • Doing things without a second thought
  • The “impossible” 90 days of Robbie’s life
  • How the easy things add up to tackle the hard things
  • Changing the perception of problems
  • Reducing the overwhelming 
  • Remind yourself of the new feeling
  • The goal is to find new hills
  • How the mind makes you faster
  • Retaining confidence 

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  • Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

    Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy New Year, buddy.

0:18.9

The year, finally.

0:21.9

2021.

0:23.2

Today is January 4th, the year, as we said, 2021.

0:26.6

Welcome aboard.

0:27.5

This is the Crushing Iron Podcast, season 5, episode 440.

0:32.6

Oh, and we have some plans for you.

0:34.8

Oh, do.

0:35.4

It's a new episode, yeah, new season. We're going to change the whole

0:38.0

format. We're going to have new characters and new plot lines. And yeah, just wait until you see the,

0:42.0

the epic finale in 100 and, you know, something episodes down the road. But yeah, did you have

0:48.6

a good new year? Do you stay up late in fireworks? Oh, yeah, I was up, uh, I think I stayed up almost 12.

0:56.0

Did you?

0:56.5

Yeah.

0:58.3

The neighbors downstairs were having a big shindig.

1:01.0

Actually, I was up to about three because of them, thankfully.

1:05.2

Yeah, and I didn't go down to join them.

1:07.3

So, well, yeah, I think I went to, well, was this right?

1:10.5

I stayed up a little bit later than

1:11.6

normal I think I was up to like 10 15 which is which is a I'm telling you the last three nights I've

1:18.5

gone to bed it'll pass 10 and the flip side of that coin is though then I wake up at like six

1:25.3

and my normal routine has been like wake up at like five and I go to bed early

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