#864 – Building Your Confidence

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at things you can and should be using to build your confidence every day. We talk about cutting negative people and why this is ultimately all about your growth. We look at the real reasons why athletes hate workouts at times. We talk about training to your current fitness and not being overly judgmental with yourself. We talk fatigue and look at positive ways to gauge your training and fitness. Don’t trust GPS in open water. The right way to use race energy. Staying even and grounded. Aging gracefully and accepting compliments along with having pride in what you’re doing.

Topics:

New Races
Ironman City Pick Strategies
Negative people in our lives
Looking in the mirror
Feel good during workouts?
Why we hat training sometimes
Train to your current fitness
Going from A-Z
The ultimate goal is a daily win
Don’t set up for a loss
Habits are hard to Combe by
Polarizing society
Simplify your life to create space
You have time . . .
Why athletes listen to this podcast
Don’t trust GPS in open water
How fatigue masks fitness
Using race energy the right way
Staying even and grounded
Aging gracefully
Take care of yourself first

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0:00.0	all right
0:02.0	all right we finally got it right we know know Cass it is. We're ready to.
0:24.1	We got the, we got the, the team's meeting room, locked down.
0:29.1	We were going through the wrong doors, ending up in the wrong rooms.
0:31.7	But yeah, we got it locked in.
0:34.1	And it is, it is August.
0:36.3	No, it's not August.
0:37.3	God, I'm like looking at thinking like school already july 16th
0:40.9	2005 well good board everybody you listen to the crushing iron podcast this episode 8604 yeah man that
0:49.7	that air quality he's messing with your head bro it sure is man is, man, that humidity, that dew point, the AQ.
0:57.3	If it's not one thing, it's another.
1:00.3	And, yeah, happy to be here today.
1:02.3	It's been a pretty solid last weekend.
1:05.0	You got Muscle Man 70.3 at Muncie, 70.3.
1:07.9	You got like Placid this weekend.
1:09.7	Busy times, some good races to watch
1:12.0	on TV as we kind of slowly build our way into the the mass, you know, late season count. We
1:20.3	was actually talking before we went live, looking through our athlete rosters of how many people
1:25.5	we've got doing certain races. And dear God, Wisconsin, it's like half the team as usual.
1:30.7	It's such a great race and a great venue as they're starting to announce some, you know,
1:35.2	some added races that I think we've been predicting here for a while.
1:39.7	They announced, I think it was yesterday.
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