#664 – Rekindling Your Competitive Spirit
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We always think we have more time . . . but you don't build confidence by doing nothing. Today we look at stoking the fire and finding our competitive nature. There's been a trend at eliminating opportunities to compete with ourselves and others. To push our limits. But limits, like fears are an illusion. We talk about the benefits of taking risks, going for it when you got it, and the subtle ways we dig emotional holes that get tougher to dig out from. The mind has a way of talking yourself into safety, but we know the best way to live is to get out and feel. To experience. Sometimes using fear as a compass is the best way to find happiness.
Topics:
- "Mild" Winters
- Limiting competitive opportunities
- The mind goes before the body
- Are you not "motivated?"
- Benefits of taking risks
- Challenge that competitive edge
- Being afraid is good - - face it
- Stop taking the flat route every time
- Feeling better after hard workouts
- When you got it, you gotta go for it
- Practice going for broke
- Masochistic training
- It's time to get back into fighting shape
- When athletes are most unhappy
- The Subtle Holes we dig
- We always think we have more time . . .
- You can't outsmart the universe
- We don't build confidence by doing nothing
- Digging deep physically and mentally
- Meditation and the thoughts that bubble up
- Fear as your compass
Coaching Inquiries:
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:03.0 | All right, live from Del Boca Vista. |
| 0:26.7 | From Del Boca Vista via Boloid, via Overland Park, Kansas. |
| 0:30.1 | It is a cool, brisk, sunshiny day. |
| 0:34.9 | It is February, or excuse me, it was March the 7th, the year, 2023. |
| 0:36.3 | Welcome on board, everybody. You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast, and this is episode 664. Yes, 2023. Welcome on board, everybody. Listen to the Crushing Iron Podcasts. |
| 0:38.3 | And this is |
| 0:38.7 | episode 664. |
| 0:40.7 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:43.2 | 664. |
| 0:44.0 | Did you happen to get |
| 0:45.6 | any of the |
| 0:46.9 | unseasonally warm weather |
| 0:48.4 | the last few days? |
| 0:50.2 | Is that mean |
| 0:51.1 | mid-40s? |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.8 | For you guys, that's mid- 40s because i had a lot of people |
| 0:55.9 | riding their bikes outside and freaking oh yeah yeah yeah definitely it's nuts definitely yeah |
| 1:01.6 | yeah we didn't you know it was nice but it was i wasn't you know i'm not in cold bike |
| 1:07.9 | riding mode yet maybe Maybe next winter. |
| 1:12.6 | Next, yeah. |
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