#845 – Type A vs. Type B Athletes

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of personality traits :) Well, not really. The goal here was to look for common ground and how qualities on both sides can help the other. There’s a lot of labeling in this world, so we look at ways of bringing good together from a training and personality habit side. What can we learn from being a little flexible on the f*9karound?

Topics:

Type A, Type B, Type C
Life on a continuum
Too hyped?
Too chill?
Flexible on the f7karound
Too far one way or the other?
Is Robbie Type A or B?
Are you cheating yourself out of growing?
Yellow in Training Peaks for the win
Combining qualities
Keeping the mind busy
Avoiding the rabbit hole
Wide or narrow guide rails?
Don’t labor in Guilt

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Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up, man?
0:20.2	Hey, it's snowing where you are. That's what I know. That's what I've heard. What's up, man?
0:23.5	Hey, it's snowing where you are.
0:24.3	That's what I know.
0:28.0	That's what I've heard multiple times, not just from you, but also those in training peaks.
0:31.7	Yeah, it is apparently not spring for everybody.
0:36.4	No, and I think I'm going to go out in it because it might be my last shot.
0:40.9	I'm going to say, dude, I think right now, I mean, it's full on appreciation phase.
0:43.7	It's gnarly, but, yeah.
0:51.3	It's like, you know, appreciate the warm weather, appreciate the cold weather because, I mean, we have about a month, right?
0:58.8	The month of, I think, April to May, and then the month of i think april to may and then the month of october november is about the only two months a year where everybody's pretty much happy weather's pleasant you're kind of like
1:05.5	in that you're in no man's lane you're strad on the fence between cold and hot you're not really wishing for colder you're not really not most people right you're not wishing for warmer you're just right there you're in that you're in the robbie bruce tim you're in hoodies and hoodies and shorts which is i mean it's it's a proven mood booster i mean everybody's on a better mood when you can wear a hoodie and shorts. But then about a month later, it gets to be like 80.
1:29.1	And everybody's like, oh, God, so hot.
1:33.3	Like, I don't even know that I could do my runs outside and I bike and I'm just wearing it on me.
1:38.1	And the next thing you know, you're like that for like five months and you hit October, November.
1:42.4	And you're like, oh oh this is it back to
1:44.6	hoodies and shorts weather perfect run weather dew points down humidity's down it's getting a little
1:48.9	bit of that seasonal EPO and then December hits the first snow and you're like fuck this like where where
1:55.2	when is it going to get warmer again so yeah we're kind of stuck in that like no man's land I think
1:59.8	of uh you know, really appreciating.
2:03.8	Because let's be honest, there's, I mean, first off, like we always talk about the weather, which just shows how old we are.
2:10.6	That's like what old people do.
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