#905 – Responsive and Adaptable On The Bike

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today, we take a look at what why it's so important to be responsive and adaptable on a bike and show you how to build those skills.

We dive into the importance of having a cadence range and the ability to respond on a dime. We talk about what it means to ride your bike vs. letting your bike ride you. We look at trainer vs. outdoor riding and why you're probably not getting as much out of trainer rides as you should. We talk about distractions and how it may be affecting your ability to improve on the bike. Why Netflix could be holding you back. And, finally we talk about multi-tasking and how it is ultimately taking away from your ultimate goals.

Topics:

Friday Night Loser's Club
The ability to change cadence
Creating range of ability in cycling
Outside vs. The Trainer
Being Responsive on course
Ability to increase cadence on a dime
Ride your bike, don't let your bike ride you
Distractions on the trainer
Conditions matter
Zoning out during rides
Being Committed to getting better
Are you really focused?
What are you looking at while on the bike?
Neuro-muscular fatigue
Watching the news
Becoming dependent on distractions
Why do we glorify multi-tasking?
Reduce distraction gradually
Addicted to stimulation

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, all right, man, Another day to talk about swimming.
0:22.7	No.
0:23.6	We can't say that because everybody's going to turn us off completely.
0:27.7	They probably skipped over the last year.
0:29.2	They're like, oh, I'm going to skip this one.
0:30.6	Like they fast forward to the first 10 or 50 minutes of every podcast.
0:34.4	They're like, nope, swimming, nope, swimming, nope.
0:36.7	No, we're back at you today, but it's not going to be about swimming.
0:40.8	It is, however, Thursday, January 29th, 2026.
0:45.9	Welcome to everybody.
0:47.6	You're listening to the Crushing Iron Podcast.
0:49.3	This is episode 900 and 5.
0:53.1	Yeah, it is.
0:53.9	Not 804. Not 804 know it's funny how we just kind of I know
0:59.4	right like when you're doing this long you're like something like man a
1:02.3	man it's and maybe it's an 804 like no 101 more than that yeah back to back to 905
1:08.4	I'm just gonna stop guessing because like you know you've you got like your trusty pen out there, but sometimes we have to go back and look. But, yeah, when we're not worried about metrics or comparison, right? Sometimes we're just waking up and doing it every Tuesday and Thursday hopping on here for, you know, the best, the best hour we can or hour-ish. But no, no swimming today, no swim talk. I don't want to bore you guys again. We have gotten some pretty good feedback about it. But yeah, I mean, you know, given the fact that it's pretty snowy and icy and chilly, and the majority of you are, you know, avoiding the pool like the plague right now anyway, or the pool is even closed and i do got to say like i'm sure you
1:45.5	you hear this too right like we get lots of like the typical pool excuses you know lifeguard didn't
1:54.0	show up you know forgot my swimsuit you know forgot my goggles forgot my watch forgot my you know
2:00.2	swimpy three player.
2:02.5	The lane was too crowded.
2:04.3	There's too many people there.
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