#61 - Make Hills Your Best Friends
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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Coach Robbie always says, "Hills are good for the flats and hills, flats are only good for flats." Hills don't build up mileage, but they build elevation and your body. Today we give you some good inspiration to take the long way home by putting more hills (or hill repeats) into your workouts.
In Today's Podcast
- 2000 feet in straight up hill repeats
- How to wrap your mind around hill training to make it more enjoyable
- Why you should be running for time, not mileage
- Making your easy days easy and your hard days hard (mentally and physically)
- Hill training for strength
- When in doubt, take the hillier route
- Hills and cycling
- Why hills can mean less stress on your body
- A hill correlation to swimming
- Will Mike Do Muncie?
- Coach Robbie's swim analysis
- Mark Spitz talk
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, man? |
| 0:07.5 | What's up, Michael? |
| 0:08.6 | Here we go. |
| 0:09.8 | Cushing our podcast, number 61. |
| 0:12.7 | Oh, 61. |
| 0:14.1 | It's a solid number. |
| 0:15.7 | It's pretty solid. |
| 0:17.1 | Yeah, how are you doing? |
| 0:18.5 | Well, man, it's been a tough couple days, but I am doing all right, man. |
| 0:24.4 | I mean, it was, as most, a lot of you maybe know, I lost one of my best friends, and I was just in Wisconsin for his funeral. |
| 0:32.8 | And, I mean, he touched so many lives that it truly was one of those celebration kind of things. |
| 0:38.4 | And, I mean, there's just endless stories and people from grade school and high school and college and chiropractic school and you name it. |
| 0:47.6 | But I did want to share a real quick story from there, if I may. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, go for it. |
| 0:53.9 | I think it's kind of a big life piece, you know. |
| 0:57.4 | And it was told by his brother who did the eulogy there. |
| 1:01.5 | So John Pete's brother told the eulogy, and he told a little story about back in high school, |
| 1:07.8 | when Pete, Pete was 6'6, and he was a pretty good, well, he's a really good basketball player back in the day. And he had a high school when Pete, Pete was 6-6 and he was a pretty good, well, he's a really good basketball |
| 1:11.4 | player back in the day and he had a high school rivalry with this guy named Brad Graybow, |
| 1:16.7 | who was 6-5 and 265 and he ended up playing linebacker for the Badgers for three years. |
| 1:23.3 | He's just a monster. |
| 1:26.0 | Anyway, they had a rivalry in high school and their senior year in the tournament, the final game they'd ever play against each other. |
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