Where I Started, Where I Finished, What I Would Have Changed

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast features Taren's personal story -- life before triathlon, how he got into the sport, what he did to achieve his best race results (including a 9:41 as a debut IRON-distance time), and what lead to the downfall of his health. He talks about where he is now and where he's headed.

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0:00.0	My name is Terran Gazelle. In my late 20s, I was overweight, unfulfilled, and couldn't even run to the end of the block.
0:06.9	Over the following 10 years, I lost 65 pounds, racing triathlons, running races, cycling events, and world championships.
0:14.1	But eventually, the suffer culture of endurance sports training caught up to me causing health issues and injuries.
0:20.2	Now, my company, Motiv and I are on a
0:22.2	mission to help people live more fulfilling lives by reaching endurance sports goals using healthy
0:27.6	methods. We can all kill it on race day without killing our bodies. Let's do it.
0:33.1	What's up, Motivators? Taryn here. Today I want to do something a little bit different. I was
0:38.4	talking to somebody who's followed me for a number of years recently who said that the very
0:44.0	first podcast that we did where I talked about my background, largely in drinking and living
0:50.8	a really unhealthy life in my 20ss gave him the encouragement and confidence that he
0:55.8	needed to know that he could accomplish his endurance sports goals. I realized that it's been,
1:02.8	I think, four years since I did that video and I haven't really talked a whole lot about it
1:08.2	since, but it's something that can maybe provide people with a lot
1:12.9	of inspiration to understand that no matter where you are at in your life or your fitness
1:18.7	abilities, that you can get to a point that you never thought possible. I also realize that
1:25.9	recently I've been talking a lot about the detrimental effects to what I did over the course of my endurance training career, that while it did allow me to put out some good races, has resulted in a lot of common issues that a lot of endurance athletes go through.
1:44.8	So what I want to talk through today is my entire endurance sports journey that I've
1:50.8	gone through to give you a little bit of encouragement that you can reach your endurance
1:55.7	sports goals without the risks of going through what I went through.
2:02.3	Because a lot of what I went through was really unnecessary
2:05.4	and it was just a matter of me getting wrapped up in the endurance sports culture,
2:10.4	not because it was something that would result in better performance.
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