#542 – Time To Stop Making Excuses
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The truth is, success in triathlon is up to you. Today we talk about transitioning from a long holiday season into 2022 with a no excuses attitude. We look at prisoner of the moment syndrome, creating healthy pressure, and knowing when to push harder. Commit to saying yes and getting out the door, feel like a winner, but don't go zero to sixty.
Topics:
- So many excuses
- Do SOMETHING
- Great habits get harder
- Jump starting your training with spending
- Early season races are closing in
- Less margin for error
- It’s up to you!
- Let it go
- Knowing Who You Are
- Knowing Who You Are Not
- Crash diets
- Your weaknesses
- Prisoner of the moment syndrome
- I need to quit
- I need to do it ALL
- Dipping your toe in for a minute
- Creating your own pressure
- You just have to get it done
- 4 week block targets
- Take off the pressure
- Practice not making excuses
- No as a favorite word
- When to be committed to yes
- Taking pressure out of your day
- Feeling like a winner
- From Zero to Sixty
- Know your Body
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| 0:00.0 | Well, buddy, we finally got one. |
| 0:19.1 | We finally got together. |
| 0:27.4 | Thank you for our witness for a little patience. have been oh you know period of Christmassy it is December 29th 2021 welcome aboard everybody it is the crushing iron podcast we are episode 542 yep 542 did you get anything uh did you get anything fun from Santa this year, Mike? |
| 0:41.1 | Are you asking me that question right now? |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah, I'm asking. |
| 0:43.6 | After the conversation we just said, you're hanging me out to dry, man. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm hanging you out to dry. |
| 0:50.1 | Oh, yeah, I got a beautiful painting. |
| 0:52.2 | Maybe some shave gel or, you know, something, you know, a good pair of wool socks. |
| 0:56.0 | Um, I got, uh, what do you call those things, gift cards? |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, dude, gift cards are money. |
| 1:04.0 | I know, yeah, like Visa gift cards, even better money. |
| 1:07.0 | They literally are money. |
| 1:09.0 | I know, it's like, my family hates it. They're like, |
| 1:11.7 | what do you want for for Christmas? I'm like gift cards. Like I don't care to where. You can give me a |
| 1:17.3 | 200 gift card to public and I'll be the happiest guy on the planet. Yeah. There's nothing better |
| 1:21.9 | than seriously going grocery shopping with someone else's money. I mean, it is like it is freedom. I love it. |
| 1:28.3 | That's pretty good. A gift card. No, I told my mom. I see she always gives those. I've got about |
| 1:34.1 | 18 of them in my wallet and they probably have like $3 or $8 or something like that. That's how they |
| 1:39.4 | make their money. There's like everyone's got a couple of people. Yep. I get bold and I'll go over and I'll use it. |
| 1:46.0 | Sorry, your card has been rejected. |
| 1:49.0 | That's the thing. |
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