#920 – Optimize Your Engine and Decision Making

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Are you paying compounding interest on fatigue and recovery? We look at several different ways to address today's workout depending on where you are mentally and physically. Just because something is in your Training Peaks doesn't mean it's perfectly crafted for you on that day. We always want to encourage athletes to make the right decision based on how they feel, what is going on in their lives, and what the body is telling them. And believe us, there can be mixed signals. Today, we address the signals saying it's time to get after it and the ones that may be begging you to flog yourself for the wrong reasons. What's today's appropriately effective does?

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Topics:

Compounding interest in training
Compounding interest in fatigue
The find line between fun and the infirmary
Constant ambition
Who are we trying to prove things to?
When you want to bury yourself
On the days when we don't have it
How to think about warm up
Being stuck in the moment
What is your body telling you today?
Clear the air during warm up
What the signals are really telling us
The problem with pre-built workouts
Making your own recovery decisions during workouts
What to look at when you start
Finding extra mental gears
When the subconscious tells us we suck
Flogging yourself for the wrong reasons
Looking forward to tomorrow's work
Compounding gratification
How many days in a row can we kick the can
Snow plow analogy
Wrecking your nervous system
Appropriately effective dose for good recovery

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, man.
0:20.3	It's a podcast time again here in the central plains of Wisconsin.
0:28.4	The central plains, tornado valley, as where we're coming from today.
0:34.2	Yeah, run and hide, duck in your shelters, mass chaos.
0:37.1	Well, we must not have had a tornado, man, because I have a, you know, run and hide, ducking your shelters, mass chaos. Well, we must not have had a tornado, man, because I have a, you know, like a dinner tray table thing.
0:43.9	Still there?
0:44.6	Sitting out on my patio because I use it for my laptop and still there.
0:50.7	Yeah, I generally like, I've got these trees in our front yard that I just hate. All they do is like drop seeds in my mulch and grow weeds. And I fucking hate them. Hate them, but you can't remove them. It's like an H-O-A thing. You have a certain amount of mature trees. Anyway, I always use like the stick because in there, like the branches are so like brittle i just use like the stick
1:12.0	metric if i wake up and there's like one or two sticks in the ground and drive i'm like yeah that's
1:16.3	moderate wake up with like eight to ten and i got to go out there and like you know proactively pick
1:21.7	them up then it was severe but outside of that like you know like you said the dinner tree you got to
1:26.2	use like the dinner tray thing you can't get all up in arms about all kinds of
1:29.3	You know tornadic and severe listen to spring. It's gonna happen. That's just what is what it is. You know what? We needed the rain
1:36.3	It is uh, hey, but you know what? What it brought was a beautiful day. It is May excuse me. It's not May
1:42.2	Jumping ahead of us. it's April 14th the year
1:45.8	two thousand 26 welcome aboard everybody you're listening to the crushing iron
1:50.4	podcast this is episode 920 21 21 no you're right you can't do that to me this is like the thing that
2:03.9	gives me the most anxiety because I never even remember if you confirm it I just kind of like
2:07.7	throw it out there I'm like I think I I think I got it and then yeah you just freaking you
2:12.2	toy with my emotions on a Tuesday I know I know I look I'm gonna apologize for that
2:16.9	because I've been I saw a thing the other day
2:18.7	about paying debt on your trauma.
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