#705 – Marginal Gains
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Be the best of who you are, not the worst of who you aren't. Today, we talk about the importance of marginal gains in training, and life. Why do we do this sport? To get stronger, more resilient, and build the foundation we take on this journey. We talk about shifting our perspective on gains and comparison. There's a lot of power in marginal gains, and frankly, they are the key to better racing. No more beating yourself up because you're not "fast." Fast is relative in endurance sports. It's about how little you slow down. You can't go back and fix training, but what you can do is train for a better understanding of your effort and execution. Focus on recovery and being the best you can be today. With love to Somer and her family.
Topics:
- When the sole motivation is a race
- Life is 24/7/365
- Total separation from the sport
- 1:11 Ratio
- The healing process
- Everything is about gains and comparison?
- Mental and emotional de-training
- 3% better
- Food is food
- When we tend to beat ourselves up
- One more mile
- The performance pendulum
- Over analyziing decisions
- "I woke up this morning and this ride was sh*t"
- The gift of acceptance
- You can't go back and fix training
- Control in the moment
- Effort and execution
- Training the mind for execution and effort
- The best we got some days (or years)
- Sam Laidlow
- Ozzie Smith
- Under recovered
- The best of who you are, not the worst of who you aren't
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:07.0 | How you doing, bud? |
| 0:24.5 | It's good because of music. |
| 0:26.4 | I always get a little, yeah, I always either get a little amped or kind of take an exhale, give a big, you know, a big sigh of relief. |
| 0:35.4 | It feels good. |
| 0:36.1 | It feels good to connect. |
| 0:37.0 | Feel it good to be back. |
| 0:37.9 | Feels really good to talk to you. |
| 0:39.9 | Be back on board today and be ready to, ready to cast. |
| 0:44.2 | Today is August 15th, the year, 2023. |
| 0:49.2 | Welcome on board, everybody. |
| 0:50.3 | You're listening to the Crushing Iron Podcast, episode 700 and 5. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.9 | I mean, we talk, we've been talking quite a bit the last week. |
| 1:00.7 | Obviously, it's been a real tough week for everybody around the C26 community. |
| 1:10.4 | It's been one of those times where, and I think we had a question even like the closed Facebook |
| 1:14.8 | group and, you know, I think we both forget sometimes, I know, I do that, you know, 90% |
| 1:20.2 | of people that listen to the podcast aren't on Facebook or aren't the Facebook group. |
| 1:23.4 | So they're, you know, we're solid. |
| 1:24.5 | We, you know, we do two a week, two podcasts a week for basically, you know, the last six years, you know, a couple, couple one-offs, couple, you know, breaks here and there for some things that happened. But I saw somebody post on yesterday. And I kind of like, hey, you know, where are you guys at? You know, everything okay? Where you've been? And yeah, we did. Obviously, |
| 1:45.4 | if you're a regular listener, we took last week off. You know, we had, you've heard us, |
| 1:52.8 | she's been on our podcast, Summer Scandridge. She is a vital piece of our C-26 community and operations in general. We've mentioned her at almost the |
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