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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Peaking, Burning Matches, Taper, Open Water Swimming.
More great questions from listeners, including how close together can an athlete burn matches on races? We look at peak training, what it means and what it should feel like going into taper. A deeper look into the theory of taper and if you need less or more. Older athlete discussion involving strength and speed vs. endurance. We also dive deep into open water swimming and how to prepare for the conditions in a pool.
Topics:
- Coaching collides with training
- Old Man Kickball
- Burning matches back to back?
- Wet matches don’t burn as hot
- 6-10 weeks of peak training per year
- Simmer to Boil
- What exactly is Peaking?
- Peak drag
- Taper theory
- Don’t remove intensity in taper
- Aging up strategies
- Older athletes - Strength and speed vs. Endurance
- Prepping for an ocean swim without an ocean
- Lake swims vs. ocean
- What strong swimming means
- Open water vs. the pool and how to compensate
- Stay straighter in open water
- Anaerobic benefits of swimming
- Swim and Bike impact on the run
- Swimming is mandatory!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, we can't, we can. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome to the triathlon podcast. Sometimes. Sometimes for the masses. It's April 14th. It's a Thursday, folks, year 2022. Welcome on board, everybody. This is the crushing iron podcast, and we're episode 5773. Yeah, to fight that by years. I think I said about |
| 0:42.1 | 45 seconds ago before you ruined our awesome opening. Sometimes you got to get back on the bike. |
| 0:48.6 | You got to get back. Sometimes you get back on the bike. I hope you're all having an awesome, |
| 0:52.3 | awesome day. And let's be honest, you probably |
| 0:54.8 | already mailed it in for the week. It is the Thursday before a good Friday, which means a lot of |
| 0:59.4 | you aren't going to work. A lot of kids are out of school. And you know what? Why wouldn't they |
| 1:03.2 | be? They just had spring break. Why not leave them that again? And that means in like two more |
| 1:06.3 | weeks, we probably have another like, you know, Friday and Monday off, like, you know, who needs to go to school anymore these days? |
| 1:11.4 | Nothing I'm better. What needs to go to school or work, really? |
| 1:13.0 | Oh, work really. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.9 | And then you got each this weekend. |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah, I'm headed down to Nashville tomorrow to see family Easter. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm also going to get a little. We will leave at the same time. |
| 1:28.4 | And then I'll come back early as they'll probably drop me like a bad habit after about, after about five minutes. |
| 1:33.7 | Oh, you're going to start at the top and do the hills? |
| 1:35.7 | Or you're going to start down in the safe section? |
| 1:37.9 | I might, I'll probably stay safe. |
| 1:39.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.1 | Really? |
| 1:40.6 | Yeah. |
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