#787 – Be Your Own Athlete

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Everyone has different life scenarios and it’s up to you to figure out what works best in training. Is it not enough, too much? Why do you think that? Today, we look at carving your own way within the outline. Things to look at as you train for different distances. How to be confident you’ll be ready to perform on race day. We talk about mental bandwidth and stocking tenacity for race day. Looking for flow state, key warm up thoughts, and ways to not leave your race in training.

Topics:

Why am I doing this?
Not enough or too much?
Assuming e should feel bad during Ironman training
Volume dependent on the race distance?
Olympic distance training similar to 70.3
Different life scenarios
Creatitivity and letting out the athlete
Enjoying the sessions.
“I feel like I need . . . “
Every workout doesn’t have to be crushed
Athletes needs are different
Flow state
“I don’t want to know”
The loudest tend to be more insecure
Believe in your training resume
Leaving your race in training
Mental bandwidth
We take the loss - you take the wins
Shortening the race in your mind
Trying to figure out what works for YOU
Warm ups

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0:00.0	All right, buddy. All right, buddy.
0:22.0	Coming at you, 67 degrees currently.
0:26.2	Feels good.
0:27.2	Yeah, I'm in a hoodie in shorts.
0:30.2	And you've been listening to this podcast for any amount of time.
0:32.9	We know that that is my sweet spot.
0:35.6	I'm in Minnesota this week, doing a little father's sun trip with Hayden.
0:39.9	He's doing hockey camp during the day.
0:41.3	And then we're doing some father of son things in the afternoon.
0:44.8	The weather has been just absolutely perfection.
0:49.1	And for a rude awakening when I go back to Kansas.
0:51.2	But it's beautiful.
0:52.5	And it's a beautiful sunny day.
0:53.8	Hope you're all having a great start to the week. It is August beautiful, and it's a beautiful sunny day. Hope you're
0:54.1	all having a great start to the week. It is August 7th. That's a Wednesday, and the year is still
0:59.0	2024. Welcome on board, everybody. You're listening to the Crushing Iron podcast. This is episode
1:03.6	78. Yeah, that's great, man. I'm having a father-daughter week with my little dog, Maddie.
1:11.2	And yeah, I'm getting there. She's moving around a little bit. I take her out on treat walks.
1:16.3	I'm like, here's another one. Oh, how far did she have to go before she gets a treat probably get like, you know, like a little piece of cheese or something, seven or eight on a walkout to the end of the driveway and back.
1:32.4	Just getting her moving.
1:34.5	I'm torn ECO, man.
1:35.8	She's going through it hard.
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