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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#758 – Balancing Structure With Fun

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Triathlon training should be structured, but we're all about keeping the fun alive. Today, we talk about weaving them together to make the process more enjoyable and effective. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to show up green in Training Peaks, but aren't a bunch of oranges and yellows better than a week of red? Do we move to change our mood or change our mood to move? There's a lot of power in having a solid outline and moving a little off script. How to recognize what's the best decision for today. Is your workout appropriately challenging for your mental and physical state? Who wins, the human or athlete? Plus, Mike's soup can analogy. 

 

Topics: 

 

  • Plunge addiction
  • Putting pressure on ourselves
  • Racing a ton vs. once or twice a year
  • Structure vs. Routine
  • Outlines with room to go off script
  • Not having a plan is a plan
  • What is right for you?
  • What is reasonable today?
  • Sometimes it's not doable
  • Forcing yourself to learn as you go
  • No one likes micro managers
  • Soup Can analogy
  • Go through a thought process
  • Appropriately challenging
  • Move before mood or mood before move?
  • Human vs. Athlete
  • Orange and yellow or a week of red??
  • Wallowing in shame and disconnected
  • Own your own journey
  • Final Four predictions 

 

Coaching Inquiries

Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com

Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com

www.c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yep, yep. Hey, do you ever sing along but not say it out loud when they say that pop, pop, yada?

0:26.9

Every time.

0:29.5

I do a little silent, like, drum, you know, whatever thing on my desk here with my two pointer fingers.

0:39.8

You know, it's funny.

0:41.8

I posted that old podcast with Zach Schoelwalter the other day.

0:49.0

The old Badger basketball player that played in the Final Four in the next year,

0:52.8

he decided he wanted to do Iron Man.

0:54.8

Yeah.

0:55.3

And I just went back to listen to it a little bit to make sure, you know, just to see how it felt.

1:05.0

And the music's different on that one.

1:08.3

Yeah, we got a lot of hate mail.

1:10.7

I know. Like a lot of hate mail we tried to

1:13.3

change up. People are very, I'm telling you, it's like, it's like if you, you know, you drink the

1:18.9

same cup of coffee every day, the same brand, the same flavor. It's the same temp. You go downstairs.

1:25.2

You don't have to think about it. Just take a sip and it's the perfect start to your day. And when you hear, you know, the same thing,

1:32.3

you hear the tune that rolls in and gets the podcast rag. And once it changes, it kind of feels like

1:38.0

something's stolen from you. And you know what? It is. And I just remembered, because we were

1:43.9

just talking about this before the cast,

1:45.4

what we're going to talk about today.

1:46.6

But the name of that song that we use is called Three Two Fun Go.

1:51.3

Yep.

1:53.4

So it's pretty appropriate, maybe.

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