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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#878 – Listener Q&A

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Today we dive into your awesome questions with what might be one of our longest podcasts to date. We tackle back pain and bad bike position. We get into the best lifting exercises for performance. We look at the power behind tackling non-traditional triathlons and other events. We look at how to be faster and stronger as you age. Vo2 max as seniors. How do you know when you need a break. Capitalizing on race fitness or flirting with burnout? And We put the spotlight on ourselves to find out what we preach but don't always follow. 

Topics:

  • Back pain
  • Bad bike position
  • When to get new shoes for cycling and running
  • Complex lifting for strength and speed
  • Do the best triathletes lift heavy??
  • What advice to we give out but not always follow?
  • Do we look at workouts we give and think, "man, I'm glad I'm not doing that."
  • Non traditional triathlons
  • Being a well rounded athlete
  • Keep triathlon as your base focus but branch out
  • Capitalizing on fitness gained from a race or flirting with burnout?
  • 60+ athletes and speed, strength, and injury prevention
  • How to tell when it's time to take a break from swim, or bike, or run
  • What do you want to be doing in 10 years?
  • When do I go from a online training plan to a coach?
  • What coaches are good for

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, my aching back.

0:22.7

No.

0:26.7

He's not that old.

0:28.0

He's just, you know, maybe this is like the most extended doms ever from Ironman, Wisconsin is like the delayed, delayed onset muscle sorenness for Mike, it sounds like.

0:38.7

But it is a rainy, cool fall day here in Norville Park, Kansas.

0:42.3

This is September 23rd.

0:44.2

The year, it's 2025.

0:46.6

Welcome to everybody.

0:47.8

You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast.

0:49.5

This is episode 800 and 78.

0:52.7

Yeah.

0:53.3

I mean, I got a spinal cord sleeping injury, man.

0:57.1

Seriously?

0:57.7

I was just woke up.

0:58.8

I'm like, whoa.

1:00.1

I'm trying to brush my teeth.

1:01.3

My neck is cocked.

1:02.9

Yeah.

1:05.0

Yeah.

1:05.5

No, I, we don't, I'm just, I'm serious, but I'm not going to dwell on that.

1:10.2

I just thought I would you know give my

1:11.7

athletes some of their own medicine well I mean listen if you you know well now we can now you know

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