#893 – Listener Questions

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today the listener controls the show! We talk about building bike strength to be a better climber. We get into how to fall in love with the trainer and the treadmill this winter. We also look at strengths and weaknesses. How do you define them and decide where to put the most work. We get into swimming and how much you should be doing it. Some of the best drills and things to think about. Also, finding your swimming economy and body position. We also look at controlling your breath on the run and raising your bike threshold.

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Topics:

Thanksgiving Recap and favorite foods
Building climbing strength on the bike
Big gear/torque workouts
Faux Big Gear
Ways to pass time on the trainer or treadmill
Limited time - Do you work on strengths or weaknesses?
Determining strength and weaknesses
More time on the run or swim?
Body position and feel for the water
Hard time breathing on the run but legs feel fine?
Relaxing your breath
Swim drills
Swim economy
Raising your bike threshold
Bike progressions
Playing the long game
Negative split mentality
Do you lack time or energy?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, yeah, I needed that music, man.
0:20.9	It fired me up.
0:22.0	It's snowy and darkly, gloomy, and shit.
0:27.1	December rules.
0:28.2	December's here.
0:29.0	And, man, it came with a vengeance.
0:31.0	I mean, listen, there's no, I mean, like, no bigger smack to the face than
0:36.8	the December 1st that falls on a money that also falls on like a snow dump
0:42.0	You're like welcome we are here it is now winter you enjoyed yourself
0:48.6	You know over the over Thanksgiving the weather was a little bit mild
0:53.0	But yeah here we are we're here welcome and now
0:56.2	you get to deal with it for the next few months but hey you know what that's part of it that's
0:59.6	we signed up for because come july all we're going to do is bitch about how hot it was
1:03.9	it is a tuesday a beautiful tuesday it's snowy out the sunshine is uh is still here though
1:08.7	it's at simper second the year 2025 welcome aboard everybody you listen to the crushing iron podcast this is episode
1:15.9	893 yes it is and uh yeah we got a lot of snow but adding insult to injury the lake has frozen
1:24.2	um plunge season is over in the lake i think think, because it hit hard. And it's not going to
1:31.5	get above 32 for the next week and a half. We're done. Golly. That was a short-lived. I know. I know.
1:40.1	The first year I was up here, it was open most of the season. Last year it froze hard like this, too, and I'm kind of bummed because I don't know.
1:48.0	I can't see it happening.
1:49.2	I got one last plunge in at 32.9 degrees.
1:55.6	We had to walk, too, to go get the hole, man.
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