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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#750 – Stacking Volume and Appropriate Fatigue

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today is about understanding feel, your body, and learning how to "play" within training. The cast was a bit inspired by a new trend in MMA and boxing where they spar but don't hit each other. They are more in the ring to work on form, footwork, and ensure better recovery. We think triathletes can learn a lesson from that. We talk about the power of stacking volume, understanding how fatigue masks fitness, and why finding a love for training easy is so powerful. We look at how hacks influence our mindset, true behavioral changes, and why many of us tend to lean toward going harder than we should. One of the biggest mistakes athletes make is going to hard on easy days, and going too easy on hard days. Get into a groove and be able to honor how you feel on any given day. 

Topics: 

  • When you're itching to race
  • Bad decisions
  • Why "expect?"
  • Why we don't do many interviews
  • You can go your own way
  • Aqua Joggers rule the world
  • Stacking Volume
  • Run results over time
  • Z1 and Z2 equal "play"
  • "Im not a runner"
  • Fatigue masks fitness
  • Appropriate fatigue
  • The great mystery of coaching
  • Bad decisions in training
  • Aerobic work is where the magic happens
  • Hack world 
  • Not having a plan
  • Behavioral changes
  • Consistency without thinking about it
  • Running under control
  • When running form takes over
  • Negative split 13 miles on a track?
  • Easy on easy days, hard on hard days
  • Honor how you feel today

 

Coaching Inquiries

Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com

Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com

www.c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right.

0:04.0

All right, Cr iron podcast, seven.

0:26.6

50.

0:27.6

750.

0:29.3

It's February 20th, the year.

0:31.9

It's 24.

0:33.3

Welcome to more to everybody.

0:34.6

You listen to the Crushing Iron podcast.

0:36.2

And as he said, this is episode 750.

0:40.5

Yeah, I thought I'd bring that up early because that's kind of a big deal.

0:44.7

Yeah, I guess it is.

0:45.9

Yeah, we're three-fourths the way there.

0:47.3

Three-fourths the way to retirement before we do our spinoff show.

0:50.9

Yeah.

0:51.8

Once a quarter.

0:53.4

I mean, I got to join the neighbors soon yes you do and and i'm i'm it's

1:01.5

going to take me at least 250 episodes to groom my replacement nick who is going to come in and

1:07.8

do and finish things off after episode 1,000 so we we got to figure out who your replacement is going to be.

1:12.9

Or maybe you'll keep going and maybe I'll just send off and Nick can come in and be the new guy.

1:19.4

And, you know, for all the Knicks out there, keep doing what you're doing.

1:23.2

I'll just keep it's a beautiful.

1:25.1

I'm going to go Bob Babett's route.

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