#890 – The Psychology of A Day Off

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Going HARD is easy to understand, but taking rest for recovery of your mind and body can sometimes create guilt. Why do we think like that?

Today, we dive into the psychology of taking a day, or two, off when our body needs it. We also talk about getting trapped in upper Zone 2 and how that can often turn into Zone 3 which is wearing you down far more than you think. We look at junk miles and asked if they really are junk, or if they're something more than we think. We talk flexibility, pliability, and how range of motion can create more economy in your stroke, peddling, and stride. Explore the definition of "quality" and look at things from a different perspective. Be objective and understand the big picture.

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Topics:

Thanksgiving ranked as a holiday
Making up time in training . . .
The Psychology of Days Off
Gordo Byrn Perspective
Rest is extremely important
Over trained or under recovered?
Why is it so hard to take a rest day?
Is Zone 1 junk miles?
Does Zone 2 turn into Zone 3 for you?
Flexibility, pliability, limberness
Walk/runs
The continuum from yogi to bodybuilder
Using HR - Controlling HR and time
Don't ruin the rest of your week on one set
Do "junk miles" help your pliability?
Rest, recovery, quality
Different buckets of QUALITY
Howe economical is your body?
Deteriorating quality as we go
Monitor yourself objectively
Courage to take a day off
Being flexible in the training plan
Going hard is easy to understand, loving yourself and respecting your body is tougher.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Uh, that tail, welcome to the podcast.
0:07.0	Seriously. We already had basically this. Uh, exhale. Welcome to the podcast.
0:21.6	Seriously. I mean, we already had, basically, this is, we already had episode 890 before we even turned the recording button on. I know.
0:28.6	I could have just like clipped that one off and then plugged it in for today, but we're not. We'll just call that the warm up and this will be the main set. It's November 13th, the year 2025.
0:40.0	And welcome, everybody.
0:41.3	You'll listen to the crushing iron podcast.
0:43.1	This is episode 890.
0:46.4	Yeah.
0:47.3	I mean, it's just a weird thing, right?
0:49.2	But we do that a lot.
0:50.7	And I do consider that the warm up.
0:53.1	I mean, it's like a really good example of how you know
0:57.3	if we just start sometimes we get warmed up by like minute 40 of the podcast and and then it starts
1:03.8	heating up but like sometimes when we warm up like this we're ready to go out of the gate yeah we're
1:08.6	getting our juices flowing um before before i forget because
1:12.4	i was when we said 890 and we can just roll around into our topic for today but uh you know
1:18.6	if we're going to go to a thousand around 950 should we open up our our registry uh oh i mean like
1:25.8	let people let people get us some parting gifts like some red yeah we can go you know we can yeah some parting
1:30.7	gifts that like you know cold plunge dot com and
1:33.7	Reese's reissas peanut buttercup dot org like those are i mean i feel like we could just
1:38.2	let you know free to lay it down with their registry i think we should just
1:41.8	open that thing up right now, dude. That's right.
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