#785 – Listener Q&A

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Great questions from the listeners. We get pretty deep into HR training and testing, along with intensity control and duration. We look at prescription load model, reading HR. Are you getting fitter or just tired? Swimming less for easy swim races?? How much racing is too much or too little? How to keep your head in the game. Typical amount of training hours per distance. How to train year round and stay engaged.

Topics:

Our Wisconsin Camp
Great Ironman Training Weekends
Asterisk by a gold medal?
Preferred HR testing model
180-Age
30 Minute test - threshold
McMilan calculator
Building Cake and Z2 Training
When going long is inappropriate
Intensity control vs. duration
Training prescription load model
Practicing getting slower or better?
Inching up the HR
Are you fitter or Tired?
Intensity control and recovery
Strategies for specific races
Swim less?
Swim recovery
How many races is too much?
Racing too much or too little?
How to mix in a sprint or olympic
Race then run afterwards?
Keeping your head in the game
Typical training hours per week for a spring, olympic, half, full
Training year round and engaged
Communication with coaches

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back. We are back from camp in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:25.1	Yeah, it is, end of July is upon us.
0:27.7	It is July 30th, the year, 2024.
0:31.7	We'll get aboard, everybody.
0:32.9	You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast, and this is episode 785.
0:38.1	Yeah, and we had a great time, man.
0:40.2	It was something else.
0:41.4	I heard pictures were great.
0:43.1	It looks like weather was typical Madison, Wisconsin weather.
0:47.6	And as usual, it looked like the town opened up its arms and provided a awesome experience.
0:53.0	Great riding, great running, beautiful swimming,
0:55.2	and a lot of absorbing on the Ironman, Wisconsin-in Wisconsin's 70.7.3 courses last weekend.
1:01.8	Yeah, for sure. I was actually kind of impressed with the, you know, we ate out three nights
1:06.3	and did breakfast a couple times and every, you know, it's kind of a hipster town a little bit you know
1:11.2	it is and i was surprised by uh how the uh you know the staff at these restaurants was uh
1:19.2	actually impressed and intrigued by triathlon and iron man oh really yeah i mean it was kind of
1:24.6	nice i mean that's how i felt like chattanooga always was, too, you know.
1:28.3	Exactly, yeah.
1:30.5	Well, I guess it's kind of like a training camp for them.
1:31.9	Yeah.
1:37.3	A little little prep camp for September when, you know, getting ready for the masses to come in.
1:38.7	Yeah.
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