#732 - Listener Q&A - 11-27-23
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Solid questions from our listeners today. We get into how to handle this off season with regard to strength, durability, and what is "triathlon specific" training. We look at cross training, load balance, and how to get better at "going to the well" so you understand it and build confidence. Is it more important to work on your core, or upper, or lower body with supplementary work? Finding the best running shoe for you. And, is swimming and cycling more ultimately the simplest solution to better long course racing?
Topics:
- The Off Season leaves more time to "think"
- Struggling with finding good running shoes?
- Biggest pet peeve in endurance sports
- Mixing in strength training for off season
- What's most important: Core, Upper or Lower body?
- Run pacing
- Leaving your race in training
- Stacking logs for the fire later
- You can't run more if it's not easy
- Learning by mistakes
- Don't be afraid to "go to the well"
- Training stage fright
- How much off season "triathlon specific" training
- What are you most confident about?
- Do things that make you fitter
- Wayne Gretzky and cross training
- Balance your load
- What is triathlon specific??
- Are you having fun?
- Volume benchmarks for improvement
- The return on swimming
- It's not really how fast you are
- Is more cycling the easiest long course solution?
- Keeping durability
- Where do you find fun
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, man. |
| 0:19.8 | Happy post- Thanksgiving from Snowy and Icy, Wisconsin. |
| 0:24.8 | Yeah, you guys got it. |
| 0:26.8 | You guys got it good. |
| 0:28.6 | Allie and Hayden went home early Saturday morning, |
| 0:31.0 | and I'm still here in Nashville gearing up for our run camp that starts tomorrow. |
| 0:34.7 | And they got home, and four hours later, four inches. |
| 0:38.2 | We didn't get nearly as much to think as they had planned. |
| 0:40.3 | I think we were calling for Gabe. |
| 0:41.2 | But yeah, you guys are up north or you're getting what you get when you live up there, |
| 0:44.5 | which is ice, snow, cold weather. |
| 0:46.8 | But it is a beautiful Monday morning here in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 0:50.8 | It is November 27th, the year, 2003. Welcome on board, everybody. You listen to the |
| 0:56.3 | crushing iron podcast, and this is episode 732. Yeah. And man, I'm telling you, I mean, this is first time |
| 1:02.5 | I've ever, you know, lived on a lake. And just watching the freezing process is fascinating. |
| 1:09.1 | Kind of goes. time lapse photography. |
| 1:11.7 | Well, I mean, it just kind of comes and goes and depends on the sun and like it starts |
| 1:16.3 | freezing on the edge and then there's like bubbles throughout it. |
| 1:19.2 | It's just pretty cool. |
| 1:21.4 | You're like a marine scientist or whatever they call people like that. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.1 | You're getting into it but |
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