#736 – Exploring Your Discomfort Zone

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today we start with why 70.3's are gaining popularity and roll that into training with more intensity. We look at how to explore higher zones and how to work that into your overall training. We talk about why it’s important to remind yourself what it feels like and why you have to train it to truly know it. We get into why it can be more stressful to train alone and why it’s important to swim, bike, and run with people faster than you. We talk about racing as a compass and look at how to test the boundaries and flirt with slightly unnerving workouts.

Topics:

70.3’s gaining popularity
Underestimating your race
70.3’s as training for your full
There’s a lot of different ways to stimulate
Using racing as a compass
Training to discomfort
Testing boundaries
Legs can’t keep up
If you don’t train it you don’t know it
The importance of understanding ALL the zones
In all disciplines
Pyramidal training
Polarized
Remind yourself what it feels like
Understanding All Out
The top of the range
The mental fatigue of hard sessions
Training with faster people
Applying race numbers to training?
Outside vs. inside effort
Group riding
Higher stress when by yourself?
Find slightly unnerving

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0:00.0	All right, dude, I think it must be triathlon season.
0:25.8	Dude, it feels like the sun's going to be out later tonight.
0:29.1	It's going to be warm.
0:30.7	People are racing this weekend.
0:32.2	I mean, people have been racing.
0:33.4	But yeah, we're inching closer and closer.
0:37.3	It is March 11th, the year. Yeah, it's 2025.'re inching closer and closer it is march 11th the year yeah it's
0:40.2	2025 we'll get word everybody listen to crushing iron podcast this is episode 837 right yeah enough of
0:47.7	the winter doldrums let's uh get your head out of your ass and let's go yeah seriously and if you
0:53.4	and if it's still a little bit chilly, just get over it because listen,
0:56.8	we're this close.
0:57.8	We're, we're pretty much mid-May, spring break for a lot of people.
1:01.3	It's time.
1:02.2	So let's, yeah, if we get a little bit of cold, appreciate it because you know what?
1:06.5	This is like the time of year where we just complain no matter what the weather.
1:11.4	Unless it's like 45 to 50, it's either too hot or the cold comes back.
1:15.8	Let's just embrace it.
1:17.1	It's going to be changing every single day.
1:19.1	It's going to be kind of like, I mean, I feel like it's here in the Midwest too.
1:21.7	But remember when we lived in Nashville, people always said, like, if you don't like the weather, stick around.
1:26.4	Because it's like always changing
1:28.5	like last week the kids were going late to school because of a blizzard then by thursday it was 70
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