#872 – Owning Your Core Principles
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
There are so many opinions on training and nutrition these days. How do you know what’s really right for you?
Today, we talk about how we’ve sorted through the weeds and developed our own coaching philosophies based on racing and coaching thousands of athletes. What do you really believe in your heart and gut? It’s hard to stay true to those principles with so many outside influences. We get into going with your instincts, learning from mistakes, training in a way that’s right for you, racing to your capabilities, and talk about why everyone wants to blame nutrition or the run. Why do you get cramps? Why is your neck and back sore? Taper for dummies.
Topics:
- We’re feeling Fall
- Coaching traps
- Building your own philosophies
- Coaching on instinct
- We are what we’re exposed to
- Why do we get cramps?
- What do you really believe in?
- Nutrition and the run as scapegoats
- Why your neck and back hurt on the bike
- Coach’s convictions to philosophies
- Many people are paid to sell you something
- Being open minded to solutions
- Were you tough enough?
- Think and experiment for yourself
- Peaking with the fitness you already have
- How to recognize your fitness
- Lawn Mowing strategies
Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]
Robbie Bruce - [email protected]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings from a cool and crisp Wisconsin morning. |
| 0:25.4 | Yeah, it is also a beautiful, beautiful morning here in Overland Park, Kansas on this August 26th day. |
| 0:33.2 | It's a Tuesday in the year. |
| 0:35.1 | It's 2025. |
| 0:36.7 | Looking more, everybody. |
| 0:37.9 | You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | This is episode 872. |
| 0:43.1 | You got it, man. |
| 0:44.1 | And don't mind me. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm just over here shining my bike shoes and listening to boys, the men. |
| 0:51.3 | Getting in the mood, man. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, it is. Hey, listen if if it's not fall like where you are then just remember this moment right in february march early april and you're out there in your |
| 1:08.6 | shorts and your hoodie enjoying the outside trolling the |
| 1:11.7 | rest of America because you live on the west coast or in Texas or in Florida how beautiful the |
| 1:17.0 | weather is and how amazing is to be outside and not stuck on the trainer. |
| 1:22.9 | Oh, it's payback baby and we get the next month and a half head start to enjoy fall but no it's it's |
| 1:29.4 | it's a it is it's like i know with there i think feel like there's a few times of year where there's |
| 1:35.2 | like these huge attitude shifts with uh with like you know overall the overall population |
| 1:44.0 | i feel like this like two weeks span is one of them |
| 1:46.6 | because the kids go back to school and you're like thank god see you later i love you but you need |
| 1:53.1 | your space i need my space i need a routine i need to be able to stay on track i need some structure |
| 1:57.6 | and so do you the kids are off to school structure is back you got |
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