#843 – Intensity vs. Aerobic

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The argument for a weekend of RPE.

Topics:

Taking it outside to the streets
25 yards vs. 50 meters
Watt Ranges
Intensity vs. Aerobic
Different ways to fill stress buckets
Understanding ranges
Specific watts
Things we can’t know as a coach
The spirit of the workout
ERG mode
How to use feel with analytics
When your Zone 3 is different day to day
Elements matter
Duration and effort rule
What’s the intent?
Don’t be rigid
Negative split mentality for the win

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0:00.0	All right, welcome from a windy day in the north.
0:23.3	A little windy.
0:24.6	In the north?
0:26.1	Yeah, I'm in the north.
0:27.2	You're fortunate now?
0:28.1	I guess so.
0:29.4	Well, hey, listen, if...
0:30.4	Midwest.
0:31.4	I was going to say, dude, if Ohio's considered the Midwest,
0:34.3	you can be whatever the hell you want to be.
0:36.8	Yeah, I'm central Wisconsin.
0:39.2	There you go. We're sort of northern. Yeah. It's been a windy week here too. It's April 3rd year.
0:47.4	It's 2025. Looking more, everybody. You listen to the crushing iron podcast. This is episode
0:52.5	843.43. Yep. Yep. The boats flying all over the harbor. You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast. This is episode 800 and 43.
0:55.4	Yep.
0:56.0	Yep.
0:56.4	The boats are flying all over the harbor.
0:59.0	That's it.
0:59.6	How many pollen allergy comments have you gotten in training peaks this week?
1:07.4	I don't know.
1:08.5	I blocked that out.
1:11.2	You block it? No, I don't know. I blocked that out. You blocked it?
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