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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#780 – Volume, Frequency, Recovery

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Today we look how to get effective volume and why recovery should be an instrumental part of everything you do. We look at why it’s important to be aware of how and when you workout. We look at falling in love with the weather, good and bad. We talk about why summer can be the best time for base training. We look at making swim, bike and run EASIER. We talk about the Tour de France gravel stage and the importance of the day off. Spacing out your sessions and making sure you have enough fuel for your workouts.

Topics: 

  • Digging a hole to go nowhere
  • Spacing volume
  • The weather is what it is
  • Year round structure and support
  • The goal: always be fitter and faster
  • Best time of year for base training?
  • Using time and duration as EXPERIENCE
  • How to embrace weather extremes
  • The body is usually trying to warm up or cool down
  • Using workouts to learn
  • Spacing out sessions
  • Sometimes sleeping better is the best training
  • Triathletes as masochists
  • It’s not fun to beat yourself down
  • Food and Fuel and ability to do more
  • Gravel stage of the Tour de France
  • Hammered in training . . . hammered in life
  • Too much intensity
  • Building your ability to recover
  • Paying attention to when and how you workout
  • Take time to peel back the layers
  • Avg. power and normalized
  • Training can be energizing and/or draining
  • You need breaks

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Like you said, let's rock and roll at 780.

0:23.1

Rock and roll.

0:24.8

It is July 9th, the year.

0:27.6

Yeah, we're still stuck in 224.

0:30.3

Looking aboard, everybody.

0:31.5

Listen to the Crushing Iron podcast, and this is episode 780.

0:37.3

780.

0:39.3

780 and I don't know.

0:42.0

I'm looking at 2024 this morning.

0:43.1

It doesn't look too bad.

0:44.2

It's really nice out.

0:45.9

I'm in the moment.

0:47.8

I'm right here with you in a podcast.

0:49.1

That's right.

0:50.6

It's actually really nice. I actually worked outside a little bit this morning before tennis came on and

0:55.7

came inside. But yeah, it's actually, you know what? The weather is what you make it. You can choose

1:01.0

to be miserable with it. You can choose to be hot. You can choose to be cold. But a lot of times it just is

1:05.8

what it is. So it's all in the head. I think, yes, you have temperatures that vary, but you know what?

1:13.9

There's things that are great with all of it.

1:19.5

I actually having this conversation yesterday with an athlete who is kind of going through,

1:27.2

not kind of going through, is going through like so, stem cell stuff with the cancer diagnosis diagnosis and he's doing some like clinical trials

1:30.7

or he's traveling a lot to Boston and coming back and um and we were just talking about you know

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