#902 – Do The Little Things Right

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today, we start by looking at the way Indiana built a program that seemingly came out of nowhere to win the National Title. It wasn't an accident and you can build yourself in the same way. And that process starts now. We'll look at micro gains and goals and how they stack up over time. We look at long term consistency vs. short term bursts and why the former is always better. We talk about just "knowing" when you're getting better vs. depending on numbers. We look at aiming low and getting things done vs. always wanting to see improvement. Improvement happens and small habits lead to big routines. Lower expectations and get to the work.

Topics:

Inverted world - Indiana is the National Football Champion
One play at a time
A disciplined process
Who makes the fewest mistakes?
The next thing is the most important thing
Have a short memory
Being grounded
The process starts now, one day at a time
Imagine yourself as a program
6 months vs. 6 weeks
Snowball rolling down a hill
Struggles with long rides?
Weave in longer rides now
Find something to work on and commit to
What is your focus right now??
Small habits lead to big routines
Gains by accident
Micro goals
It just felt better this week
Lowering expectations
When you just know without the numbers
Lay off the throttle
Yo-yo back and forth
Aim low
Most frequently skipped workouts
Next cast - Swimming

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Invert
0:16.8	Mike and Robbie.
0:19.9	All right, welcome to the inverted world.
0:22.2	We've got a basketball school won the National Football Championship.
0:27.6	Dude.
0:28.6	Wild.
0:30.1	If I had a dollar for every comment I read on Tuesday, from Tuesday's workouts. It was not the best day to day.
0:40.3	Stay up late last night watching the, here's the funny thing, right? You know, I'm all for, you know, Indiana
0:47.3	when the national championship game, good for them. But I had no idea how many Indiana fans I was coaching.
0:53.3	Yeah. I mean, I think ever, I was like mean I needed to do like a one of those like you know heat maps of the United States to see how many
1:02.8	people that I coached that are from Indiana live in Indiana or just kind of latched on to the Indiana bad way bandwagon was I swear to, 90% of people threw in the word my. I was up late at watching my Hoosiers. I'm like, since when were they your Hoosiers? Because I haven't heard you mention the Hoosiers in the last eight years I've been coaching you. But all of a sudden, here we go. But yeah, lots of comments here. And it was, listen, it was a rough, it was a rough weekend for sleep.
1:30.6	I mean, you and I were texting, you know, late in the National Championship game.
1:33.5	But there was some very solid football to be had on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
1:40.6	I mean, Hayden and I stayed up a little bit late.
1:42.5	He didn't have school on Monday.
1:43.3	We stayed up a little bit late. He didn't have school on Monday. We stayed up a little bit late watching the, the bears.
1:48.0	I can't remember who they play now. The Rams, we ended up watching that.
1:51.7	And like watching the last like 30 seconds when he threw that touchdown, we were both like speechless.
1:58.2	I was like, what did we just witness? It was a yeah, not a lot of sleep to
2:03.5	be had, but you know, just a friendly reminder how important sleep is because most people said
2:07.4	it affected, uh, it affected the workout. But yeah, we're back again. It's a Wednesday. Thanks for
2:12.4	the one day to lay. You know, we had to both recover. Well, I had to recover from a little bit of a
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