How To Not Suck at Cycling - Part 4

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today, it’s cycling and what makes you stronger, faster and more efficient. How do you get there? We get into cycling blocks and why they may or may not be your answer. Do you even have the fitness to attempt one? We look at having a master plan of attack. We talk intervals and intensity and power. We look at “stress buckets” and how you have to reduce one to fill the other. We also get into a nice little nugget toward the end about the Importance of Zone 2 riding and how you can do it more effectively.

TOPICS:

August is Full On Gas
Alaska - Atmospheric River?
Living for experience
Lake Tahoe memory
Decision making and toughness
Triathlon: A giant puzzle/whack a mole
Cycling: General strengths and weaknesses
Cycling Blocks
Understanding Stress Buckets
You need a Master Plan
Don’t sacrifice just for the sake of it
In order for a block to work . . .
Having enough fitness for it to matter
You need a big enough cake to make it work
Ironman is an aerobic event
“I just want to hammer it, Coach”
Fast vs. the ability to hold it
Building Aerobic Capacity
Master where you’re at first
More is often the mistake
If we can’t do the small things right, don’t do big things
The hardest work is getting all your workouts done
Finding Zones in your cool down
Efficiency is King

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

www.c26triathlon.com

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0:00.0	ready
0:01.6	let's rock and roll
0:03.8	all right
0:04.9	all pre-prod meeting in the books pre-pride meeting in the books. Let's go get it.
0:27.4	Let's go get it. Folks, it's August 4th, 2022. Welcome on board. You listen to the crushing iron
0:34.6	podcast, and this is currently episode 600 and five. It sure is.
0:41.0	605. That's a, man, that's a huge number. Speaking of huge numbers, before we do our intro,
0:46.0	you and I were kind of talking in what has now become an almost usual pre-show meeting,
0:50.5	where we catch up and go through things but you know august is traditionally
0:54.8	i wouldn't say it's a slow month because you know in terms of the 12 months of the year it's
0:59.4	it's not you know terribly slow but in terms of racing season that basically kicks off in
1:04.4	late april and goes through november august is kind of one of those down months where there's
1:09.0	not a ton of 70.3s and fools and even sprints in olympics i don't know it's because that's it's kind of one of those down months where there's not a ton of 70.3s in
1:11.1	falls and even sprints in olympics i don't know because that's it's the hottest time
1:15.0	of year um or you know school's going back but we're kind of going through the calendar and
1:19.7	starting this weekend you know going through what in a november i think i counted 10 you got
1:25.7	we have an athlete doing ironman, Calamar over overseas.
1:30.6	Next weekend, you got Iron Man in Alaska this weekend.
1:33.3	You got Airman, Arizona, November, California in October, Chattanooga in September, Florida in November, Maryland in September, Wisconsin, September, Conan in October.
1:43.5	And that's just named a few. And Iron Man, Canada, you know, in in October, and that's just name
1:44.1	a few. And Iron Man, Canada, you know,
1:46.1	in August, it is like, it is
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