#857 - Priming Your Workouts

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

A lot of times we don’t “feel it” and the workout seems daunting. Today we look at why it’s important to use priming to get things going whether you’re racing, training, or tapering. We’ll explain some of the ways to shift your mindset to start the day and get more out of your workouts. We look at some of the key indicators with regard to how to predict your race performance. We look at aerobic threshold and compare trainer rides to outside.

Topics:

Just start
Priming your workouts
Taper weeks
Workouts seem daunting?
Making decisions when stress is high
Missed workouts
Prisoner of the moment
Rigid triathletes
Taking ownership of the work
What gets you excited?
What drains you?
Making priorities
Ball park training
Being good with ranges
The longer you’re in the game . . .
Tri Calc addiction
Looking at the wrong indicators
Integrity of workouts
Benchmarks
Watt range
Total body of work is key
80% for 80%
Mental capacity
Treating your training like a business
Aerobic threshold
Trainer vs. Outside
Don’t be distracted

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0:00.0	All right.
0:04.0	All right. I try to think of an interesting intro there, but I don't have anything.
0:24.5	So it's just going to start.
0:28.3	Well, you know, I mean, as we kind of tell our athletes, it's like, you know, don't judge,
0:32.9	don't doge your workout by your warm up and don't judge the podcast by the intro.
0:38.6	It's, I feel you, dude, it'sune 10th the year 2025 welcome for everybody you listen to the crushing iron podcast this is episode
0:45.3	857 yeah weak intro but like i was telling my athletes the other day i'm really kind of into this
0:53.0	idea of priming priming the day with the workout.
0:56.2	I do the, I mean, I'll do the subboarder.
0:58.7	I'll do a little walk on the incline.
1:00.1	If I don't feel like working, it kind of primes me into doing something.
1:03.7	So, you know, this is just our primer.
1:05.9	We're trying to get into the podcast.
1:07.1	It is.
1:07.5	I love it. You're just talking shit and not making, you know, any sense.
1:10.9	And then you finally figure it out.
1:12.3	It's sort of like writing.
1:13.2	You just start writing.
1:14.8	And then it finally comes to you.
1:16.1	They always said that.
1:16.9	Like if you start writing something, you really don't have anything valuable for the first
1:21.8	two paragraphs.
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