#524 – Create Challenge and Lean Into Life
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
2020 forced and taught a lot of people to lean into the side of taking the easy road. Today we get into why it’s more important than ever to do hard things and push your comfort zone. It’s really easy to get obsessed with time goals, but creating challenges and experiences in life is more powerful. We get into why it’s important to be fun, flexible, find the kid inside and try new things or something out of the norm.
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Topics:
- Recapping the racing weekend
- Ironman California Cluster
- Ironman making tough decisions
- Detaching from PR Goals
- Fitness or luck?
- Time related results trap
- Breaking away and trying something new
- Gaining experience in life
- No Easy Ironman - Ever
- Mixing up the muscle groups
- The hardest Ironman is the one you’re training for
- Choose something out of the norm
- Satiating your appetite
- 2020 - So tough for so many reasons
- What’s the point?
- Needing energy but not having energy . . . it’s a pickle
- Hacks are . . .
- Animal instincts
- Disassociating from the data
- Let loose
- Dump the metrics
- Fun and flexible
- Find your inner KID
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Coach. It's a Monday. It's for October. 25th. Monday for October. |
| 0:24.2 | 2021. Welcome aboard, folks. This is the crushing iron podcast. We are episode 523. 24. 24. I thought I nailed it. |
| 0:35.1 | It just reminded me I got to get my notebook. Yeah, go with your notebook. |
| 0:38.1 | I'll get your notebook. I'll get a little soft open. |
| 0:41.0 | We appreciate you tune in. |
| 0:42.2 | Hope you're having an awesome start to the week. |
| 0:44.3 | It is a gloomy, but you know what? |
| 0:46.8 | Pleasant fall morning here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. |
| 0:49.0 | We hope you're having amazing weather wherever you are in the U.S. or abroad, hoping you're having a lot better weather than they |
| 0:55.0 | had at Ironman, California on Sunday. We'll go into that little bit. But if it's first time |
| 0:59.3 | tuning in, welcome. We appreciate you giving us your time. You know, you have a lot of options in the |
| 1:03.3 | triathlon podcast universe and just podcasts in general and that your time is valuable. We appreciate |
| 1:08.1 | you lending us your ear today. We cover it all. We cover swim bike run detailed podcast. We cover race recaps. We do race previews. We have on a guest |
| 1:17.3 | once every 94 episodes it feels like. But for the most part, Mike and I is best friends, |
| 1:22.8 | coaches, athletes ourselves, just kind of sit back, relax, have an open-off discussion about what |
| 1:26.9 | we're going through, what our athletes are going through through we work with a wide range of athletes from across the |
| 1:31.8 | globe from beginners to elite level amateurs so we kind of we tend to have a good grasp when |
| 1:38.0 | everybody's going through sometimes it'll also hop into our Facebook group which is crushing iron |
| 1:41.8 | group if you want to be a part of that conversation, you can answer one simple question. |
| 1:46.2 | And we'll let you right in. |
| 1:47.4 | But that's it. |
| 1:48.0 | We have no sponsors. |
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