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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#865 – What Can We Learn From Katie Ledecky?

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How on earth can Katie Ledecky continue to dominate for so many years? It’s not like training plans are a secret, so what could possibly be the difference, and how can you learn from her mentality. Today, we discuss her approach to swimming, her stroke, and her racing strategies. We also talk a little Tadej Pogacar and some Tour de France. And why it’s important to do what you love but also spend time, be patient and do things that make you uncomfortable?

Topics:

  • Birthdays… how important are they after 40?
  • Katie Ledecky and her complete dominance
  • How much faster does kicking make you?
  • What’s it take to keep focusing on getting better?
  • You can get away with a lot more when you’re young
  • Holding speed without your kick
  • Understanding negative splitting in long course racing
  • Aerobic training
  • Is Katie Ledecky’s training that much different?
  • Tadej Pogacar is one with the terrain
  • Katie is one with the water
  • How dial in are you year round?
  • 5 star athletes that crash and burn
  • How our youth impacts us later in life
  • What do you choose to do when you’re happiest?
  • We want it now
  • Work at things you suck at
  • Dip your toes, build confidence, and be all in
  • Stay in the game

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, well, well, well.

0:19.3

Well, I'm not going to say it.

0:22.2

What'd you say?

0:22.9

I was going to say the number, but that's your deal. Oh, dude, I mean, it's just another birthday. I mean, yeah, I mean, now we're celebrating. Yeah, Hayden, Hayden was nine on, I don't know what day it is. It's Sunday. Yeah, Sunday was his birthday. turn 9 which is yeah which yeah, which is a little, I mean, which is always cool. Like, I'm sure someday, like, you know, when he's super bored, probably older and I'm, like, probably dead and gone. He'll go back and listen to some of these podcasts because it's pretty much like a trajectory of his entire life. Because we started at what, like two or three months after he was born something like that

0:54.7

because i mean i used to get the fucking evil eye and he's like you know screaming and crying

1:00.8

i'm like yeah i got to go slide on over to the to the rec room and do this podcast um before

1:09.1

well i mean we still really know what we're doing but before we had any idea we were doing i still didn't really know what we're doing, but before we had any idea

1:12.7

that we were doing, I still didn't even know what we're doing. It hadn't less of a clue back then, but I had a little Amazon Mike and the plug it in and like, yeah, we're just get on there and talk to Mike. He's like, you're going to go talk to Mike again? I'm like, yeah, talk to Mike And look, here we are.

1:08.9

Nine years, well, part of the podcast,

1:11.1

almost nine years later, still doing it still. Yeah, I talked to Mike again. And look, here we are. Nine years, well, part of the podcast,

1:28.8

almost nine years later, still doing it. Still cooking strong. Still loving. It's July 22nd,

1:33.9

the year, 2025. Welcome board, everybody. You listen to the crushing iron podcast. This episode

1:39.6

865. Yeah, 865. We were talking before the cast. I think it's important to bring it up.

1:47.0

I just recently had a friend. He's in his 50s. He stopped talking to me because I blew off his

1:51.9

birthday party. And I was talking to you about when do we stop thinking about and being celebrating

1:58.3

birthdays? And I just think, I think that might have been 25 years ago

2:02.0

for me or so oh for sure you know people gather up or whatever that's fine but it isn't going to be a big to

2:07.4

do no and i mean i mean and athletes i think get the picture here but i mean you'll probably

2:15.6

have this too some churches love seeing like the athletes that put in their own birthday in trainee peaks.

2:21.8

Like that's going to like give me a soft spot in the heart.

2:25.6

Like you know what?

2:26.7

Day off, baby.

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