Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Is it important to do your long run the day after your long rides? What are the best smart trainers for your budget and success. Should you refrain from sex before a big race? We get into all that and more, along with a pretty good tangent discussion about how to work on really understanding and executing your pace and effort. We look at technology and why it's for some and not others. We also look at what the greatest skill an endurance athlete can master.

Topics:

• Used bikes and bike fits
• Smart trainers
• Should you do your long run after your long ride?
• Sex before a race
• Why tech is annoying to us
• What's the point of tech without the work?
• The greatest skill an endurance athlete can have
• Intuitive understanding of how you feel and what you have left
• Creating less opportunity for excuses
• Why people have bad races
• Adapting workouts to your mentality
• lactate meters for age groupers

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected] Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

We talk Olympics’ triathlon. We get into the heat. We get into adjusting for the heat. We talk Norwegian method as a strategy or burnout? Adrenaline as your only fuel. Swimming in a pool before a race if the swim is cancelled. Post race recovery food and methods. The goal is not the session. Downward spirals. And your NEED TO KNOWS about Louisville 70.3

Topics:

• Monogetti in the heat
• Elimination of toxins
• Coconuts
• What if your race was pushed back a day?
• Olympics’ Triathlon
• Norwegian method
• Red - Color for RPE
• Hard work, consistency, communication
• Longevity goal: Be in for the long run
• Adrenaline for fuel
• The ease of consumption
• Swim in a pool if IM Swim is cancelled?
• Post race recovery foods and methods
• Adjusting your zones times for heat
• How to keep enthusiasm after a race
• In the run lab
• When we see yellow in TP
• The goal is not the session
• We care about your race . . . and health
• Pom pon megaphone coach
• Downward spirals
• Need to knows about LOUISVILLE 70.3
• How to stay cool

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

Today we open it up to some of our own athletes to ask questions. We get into races that may not live up to the hype, Travel, stress, and exhaustion, sleep, fueling for health, a quality of life perspective, and lowering cortisol levels. We also talk snow shoes, cross country skiing, and when is the appropriate time for Christmas decorations.

Topics -

• Gray blanket season
• What if your race doesn’t live up to the hype?
• The hype train
• Grass is greener
• Christmas trees before Thanksgiving?
• Travel, stress, and mental exhaustion
• Are you trying to get in too much?
• Going easy to get energy
• Serious sleep
• Fueling for health
• A quality of life perspective
• Lowering cortisol
• Doing things right
• When to step away from long course
• What’s your desired outcome?
• Mental and emotional bandwidth
• Show shoes and cross country skiing
• Turkey costumes and drag

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

The saying goes, “new year, new me,” but should it be, “new year, real me?” Today, we look at goals from a perspective of picking ones that will actually align with who you are as a person and athlete. We talk about why being healthy is a great ideal, but it can also be vague without diving in a little deeper. We look at building a strong foundation as a person and how to spend time wisely in the right direction. Now is the time to eliminate the “fake goals” that have been creeping into your life, and truly uncover who you really are.

Topics:

• Figuring out who you really are and what you want
• Standing in line
• Goals can be anything
• Do your goals make sense for you?
• Egos and past selves
• Being too excitable
• Always being ready to say yes
• Being healthy is very vague
• Pay attention to what feels good and why
• The best athletes think of triathlon as a lifestyle
• Building a strong foundation as a person
• Training in solitude
• Holiday parties
• I want MORE
• Spend 2 hours a week working on you
• Do you feel strong? Did you feel good?
• The goal is to be more grounded in who you are
• Fake goals. Fake Failures

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

Today we start with why 70.3's are gaining popularity and roll that into training with more intensity. We look at how to explore higher zones and how to work that into your overall training. We talk about why it’s important to remind yourself what it feels like and why you have to train it to truly know it. We get into why it can be more stressful to train alone and why it’s important to swim, bike, and run with people faster than you. We talk about racing as a compass and look at how to test the boundaries and flirt with slightly unnerving workouts.

Topics:

• 70.3’s gaining popularity
• Underestimating your race
• 70.3’s as training for your full
• There’s a lot of different ways to stimulate
• Using racing as a compass
• Training to discomfort
• Testing boundaries
• Legs can’t keep up
• If you don’t train it you don’t know it
• The importance of understanding ALL the zones
• In all disciplines
• Pyramidal training
• Polarized
• Remind yourself what it feels like
• Understanding All Out
• The top of the range
• The mental fatigue of hard sessions
• Training with faster people
• Applying race numbers to training?
• Outside vs. inside effort
• Group riding
• Higher stress when by yourself?
• Find slightly unnerving

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

Robbie Bruce - [email protected]