Hang Tough and Find Your Own Motivation
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This is our 600th podcast, but there’s no fanfare… we just keep showing up. We started doing only Monday and Thursday, but sometimes that didn’t always work out for us and staying too regimented could made us lose steam. Be flexible, recover, do what’s right for the long-term growth. Today we dive into mid-season training and how tough it can be to stay motivated when you might not be seeing a ton of progress in the heat. We look at ways to find the little wins that keep you going toward the big goals. We talk about subtle clues, and training relative to how you feel. Also talk about ways to reframe your days off and maximize recovery days. We do this to be healthy and happy, so learn to appreciate how triathlon is helping you on a day to day level.
Topics:
- Heat, humidity, dew point
- I feel great . . . I feel like sh*t
- Resiliency and how it matters
- Tolerating hard environments
- Increases: Temps, humidity, stress
- Frustrations triathletes feel right now
- Future Tripping - make it work for you.
- Subtle clues that you’re getting better and stronger
- Seasonal EPO
- Summer volume = Fall Gains
- Relative Training
- Ebb and flows of the summer
- Reframing your days off
- Maximizing recovery days
- What do you do to recover?
- Optimistic thoughts and finding nuggets to keep you going
- Hanging tough and aim low
- Exhausted?
- Little positive thoughts that build up
- Detach yourself from swim, bike, run
- Win your personal lottery - Finding that lost $20
- Spice things up
- Breaking rigidity
- Get on a kayak or hike
- Don’t get to a point where you resent this sport
- No such thing as perfection
Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]
Robbie Bruce - [email protected]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, another milestone. |
| 0:25.0 | We made it, buddy. |
| 0:26.8 | We got here somehow. |
| 0:29.1 | Somehow, some way we made it. |
| 0:30.8 | It's July 18th, the year, 2022. |
| 0:34.6 | And ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to episode 600. |
| 0:39.3 | 600. Yeah, if you could see where I'm doing episode 600, you wouldn't believe it. |
| 0:47.4 | And you would probably think, how are these guys, how do these guys have you made it to 600? |
| 0:51.3 | And why are people still listening to them? Because, you know, you're probably sitting in your mom's basement and I'm sitting upstairs in the bedroom uh but yeah somehow |
| 0:58.7 | we've made it and we hope you made it through the weekend uh pretty busy weekend not nearly as |
| 1:03.6 | busy this upcoming one with i think ohio 70.3 like placids this weekend a lot of great races |
| 1:09.3 | uh here in july but we hope you had an amazing weekend. |
| 1:12.3 | For your first time tuning in. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:14.5 | We appreciate you giving us your time. |
| 1:16.6 | We know you have, well, let's face it, you get a lot of options in the |
| 1:19.9 | triathlon podcast universe and just podcasts in general. |
| 1:22.6 | Your time is very valuable. |
| 1:23.9 | So we appreciate you tuning in today. |
| 1:26.2 | We cover it all. |
| 1:27.2 | We will do swim, bike, |
| 1:28.2 | and run specific podcasts. We will do race recaps. We'll also do race previews. But for the most |
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