#900 – Understanding Your Fatigue

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today we get into understanding fatigue and what it means. Is it in your head or your body? Lungs or legs? It all matters and it's important for you to be able to recognize and adjust so that you can get the most out of your sessions or simply get off the couch. We look at different signs in swimming, cycling, and running that show fatigue and sort of look at the "seriousness" of each and how to roll right through it.

Topics:

Triathlete Tattoos
Gross pics sent to coaches
Reading books or faking it?
Post-holiday fatigue
Longer Zone 2 rides and runs
Why do you feel better deeper into the workout?
Swimming to test fatigue safely
Too much focus on "times"
Stress is stress
Adapting to the sessions
What is weighing you down?
Run Camp as a science "lab"
Don't let the numbers affect your day
Red Zone of fatigue
Feeling "off"
Why to be a fan of HR
Bike approaches to working through fatigue
High power/Low HR means system is firing
Does it feel like a fight?
Is it your legs or lungs?
Stacking days and getting the right stimulus
Can't put a finger on it
Rebalancing "the off" feeling
How do you feel meeting the intent of the session
Restaurant picking strategy for your family

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0:00.0	all right welcome back back
0:19.8	it's different for us different for us without the music dude it is different it's different for us
0:23.8	without the music yeah i mean we had uh we're a little bit late in the ocean we were going through
0:28.1	the trathlet you know we're updating each other on our on the trathlet transfer portal news uh coming
0:33.4	out of the weekend and seeing you know if there was any we've, we've had any more C-26 NIL dollars to spend.
0:39.0	If we're going to go after any big hitters, uh, with a dead period coming up.
0:43.4	But no, it's great to be here.
0:45.5	Yeah, it's January 13th, the year 2000, C-26.
0:49.9	Welcome to everybody.
0:51.1	You're listening to the crushing iron podcast.
0:52.9	This is episode 900 episode
0:57.5	900 today we did it we did 900 of them oh man you know it sounds like a large number i mean
1:07.6	i forgot until we got on i was like that's the pretty that's a substantial number. I mean, I forgot until we got on. I was like, that's the pretty, that's a substantial number. Yeah. On the, you know, on the milestone list, yeah, 900. Yeah.
1:18.9	I got a, I'm still here. Athletes said he's got to take a few days off swimming because of a tattoo,
1:24.1	and I asked if he got a C-26 tat for the 900th.
1:29.0	He said, that's coming next.
1:31.3	That's coming next.
1:32.7	I said, I'm sorry to hear that, dude.
1:35.3	Yeah, seriously, right?
1:36.6	I mean, it's like, we're like, uh, indie.
1:40.6	That's true.
1:41.5	Exactly.
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