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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#757 - Why You Should Fall In Love With Zone 2

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Efficiency might be the biggest key to you having a successful race and that all starts in Zone 2. Yes, we know it's "boring" but today we give you other ways to think about it, specifically as in, why do you not enjoy doing something that is good for you and your health? We talk about teaching the body to burn fat so you're not so dependent on calories. We look at swimming and why practicing swimming slow is a great exercise. We really boil down Zone 2 in a way that helps understand why it's the key to great racing. We look into cravings and calories and what they might really be indicating. Zone 2 is about getting and understanding the "feel" for racing, which ultimately isn't about how fast you go, but how little you slow down. Dive into the big picture and learn to love your Zone 2 work. 

Topics:

  • Swim Camp Experience
  • Simplification of a complicated sport
  • Swimming technique
  • Everyone looks different in the water
  • Do you work on swimming slow?
  • When your swim warm up is your fastest pace
  • Walking more than 30 minutes . . . 
  • Run form?
  • Diving deep into Zone 2
  • Using the Pull Buoy 
  • Slow and engaged climbing
  • Firm but relaxed
  • Shaving off 10's of minutes or seconds?
  • Efficiency is King
  • Too far or too hard
  • The feel, the force, the fast
  • Burning fat 
  • More purpose under the water
  • Think more about the final produce (aka race)
  • Under fueled or you just ate the wrong stuff?
  • Craving sugar or salt
  • Topping off the right tank
  • Once you get too hot, it's over
  • The point of no return with heat and calories
  • Calories equal energy
  • How will you spend your calories?
  • Most of us are bad spenders 

 

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

0:03.0

all right welcome back to the crushing iron podcast. Welcome back. It is good to be back. It is March 26th. The year. It's still 2024. Welcome to board everybody. Listen to the crushing iron podcast episode 757.

0:36.6

Yeah. And we are welcoming you back from texas with a massive swim camp and

0:41.4

it was it looked like it went great yeah i mean listen i was fully anticipating to die and and

0:49.1

wither away in the texas heat um but i i'm to tell you right now, I underpacked.

0:58.6

I mean, I'm a pretty light packer anyway, but it was chilly.

1:02.4

I know I'm not going to be saying that next time I'm down there.

1:05.7

I did, it was, it was beautiful.

1:07.4

We had, we rained a ton the first day.

1:09.5

We had two swim sessions both done in

1:11.2

the rain uh we were out there just roughing it uh could have easily canceled both because there

1:16.4

was a chance of lightning and supposed to lighting basically all day the first day

1:20.0

for winds and i you know huge team you know camp dinner perfect weather you know how it is you know

1:27.0

i am with hoodies in a t-shirt.

1:28.8

Oh, yeah.

1:29.2

And it's perfection.

1:30.6

And then the next day, it was calling for storms all day.

1:32.5

So instead of, you know, just, you know, caving into the weatherman and the projection, we just said, we'll double things up in the morning.

1:42.2

And then the afternoon, 2 to 4 p.m. which is our next

1:45.4

session and we did a little classroom session middle of the day it was it was all it said was

1:49.6

lightning and i just said you know what fuck it we're going anyway what's the worst thing that can

1:55.9

happen to send us home i don't know oh we went and nothing happened. It was fantastic. We didn't get

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