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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#886 – Max Flexibility Season

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Don't turn triathlon into a job you hate. Now is the time to embrace flexibility and work on being healthy, happy, and a more resilient athlete. Today we look at the toughest times of the year and how to use them to your advantage. We also get into how gratitude makes us faster. We talk about keeping an eye on how far you've come. We talk maintaining vs. losing and how your body will thank you on race day. We talk about why overly specific interval training is overrated. We look at burn out and how to make sure you can have a long and healthy life with triathlon as your guide.

Topics:

  • Embrace The Costume Day
  • Ironman Florida
  • 2nd Toughest Time of Year for Training
  • Last hour of the road trip
  • When we get sooo close to the season
  • Max Flexibility Season
  • It's keep moving time
  • Starting a band
  • Cramming for a test
  • The triathlete's seasonal cycle
  • Craving the run?
  • It's Yellow Season
  • Gratitude can make us faster
  • Look back at how far you've come
  • Don't let yourself fall so far behind
  • Being an Athlete versus Chasing a Race Goal
  • Not going too far in either direction
  • Maintaining instead of losing
  • Excuses in relation to the time of year
  • Choose your adventure
  • Making sure athletes do aerobic work
  • Specific training overrated?
  • Building a base . . . of consistency
  • Why people get burned out
  • Don't turn triathlon into a job you hate

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, man, welcome back to the best day of the year.

0:22.1

Best day is your favorite.

0:23.7

It had a lot of people sending me messages, got a couple cards, even a couple gifts in the mail.

0:28.3

You know, it was my favorite holiday.

0:31.4

It is Halloween.

0:32.4

Couldn't be more pumped.

0:35.1

It is my favorite day.

0:36.3

Went out last night.

0:37.7

You know,

0:37.8

I got home from vacation.

0:40.2

I mean,

0:40.4

and I was going to extend the vacation.

0:42.9

But I was like,

0:44.0

who wants to spend time on the beach?

0:46.4

Get me back for Halloween.

0:48.4

Yeah.

0:48.5

I can't.

0:49.0

I mean,

0:49.3

I went straight to the store.

0:51.6

I bought eight bags of Reese's peanut butter cup, my favorite, favorite candy.

0:58.6

And I said, I cannot wait to get home and give all this shit away, get 10% of it back,

1:04.2

and then liquor, black licorice, jelly beans, Rolos, junior mints, you know, I can't wait to just lose all this and have my dog be scared

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