#901 – Information Overload and How It Affects Training
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Let's just stop for a minute and think about the endless choices we have and how they can overwhelm us. Ever get that feeling like you need to get in shape before you go to the gym? We talk about the rabbit hole of hacks and how it can lead to action paralysis. We talk about how to structure your mind for the right "why." We look at why getting one percent better each day is a great strategy, but why it's so tough to stick with. Training should be about much more than a time goal, it should be driven by what is truly meaningful to you and it's well worth sitting in silence and really figuring out.
Topics:
- Getting fit before going to the gym
- Can you ever be fit enough?
- Intellectual experts vs. practitioners
- What's the hack?
- Action paralysis
- Endless podcasts, influencers, newsletters
- Drink from a garden hose vs. a fire hose
- We always want more
- When we feel like it's not enough
- Trying too hard
- The weight of the world
- The integrity of a workout
- Do we need more?
- We all need a bit of a buffer
- Being swept up in the moment
- One percent better each day but not seeing it
- Weight loss and patience
- Inability to set realistic goals
- What is meaningful to you?
- You have to have more than a time goal
- Swinging for the fence all the time
- Building habits that turn into routine
- Pick out the right lot and build slowly
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, coach. How you doing it? |
| 0:20.0 | Dude, I'm doing solid, man. I'm happy to be here. It's, uh, you know, I had, like I was |
| 0:25.6 | telling you before, I had a few beard sickles this morning, been a little spoiled with the, |
| 0:29.8 | uh, what I would call warmer than, warmer than normal winter temps. Uh, it's been just like |
| 0:35.5 | perfect outdoor, like pretty much everything. I mean, and Hayden's like, you know, like perfect outdoor like pretty much everything and |
| 0:38.1 | even Hayden's like you know like running like playing outside on like he's still |
| 0:42.0 | riding his bike to school and you know full on like shorts and t-shirt the |
| 0:45.8 | other day it's freaking January and then yesterday I think it's more of a reality |
| 0:50.5 | check got up this morning and make sure I did a little bit of a little bit longer of a |
| 0:54.7 | extended warm up before my run intervals and yeah I got done I was like wiping my like I had |
| 1:00.3 | obviously had gloves on I was wiping my face uh like one of my last intervals and like white stuff |
| 1:05.4 | was on and I was like nope got the beard sickles man and we're back nice but it's winter as it should be it's January 15th |
| 1:13.0 | the year 2026 |
| 1:15.1 | welcome aboard everybody |
| 1:16.6 | you're listening to the crushing iron podcast |
| 1:18.8 | and this is episode |
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| 1:22.0 | 901 yeah I feel like 901 |
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| 1:27.2 | oh I think it is has that presence about it let's check it i feel like 901 has to be a solid area code oh i think it is has that |
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| 1:34.8 | mind oh i knew it was maybe maybe maybe one of the maybe one i know it did sound like maybe one of |
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