What we do is hard, and that’s why we do it, but do you find the edges of your limits? We had a three day event in Chattanooga and were reminded why we love to test ourselves. Today, we look at ways to approach and push through the pain and discomfort. Also, why that matters in life and why it’s important to get out of your head, move things around in your body, and not quit.

Topics:

• Our Ironman Weekend Event in Chattanooga
• Races opening up around the world
• Swimming 2.4 in an Endless Pool
• Challenging Bike Course
• Flipping Your Switch
• When race excitement is removed
• Envious of the pain?
• Your celebration can look however you want it
• Rediscovering something you’ve lost
• Looking for connection
• Using race energy
• True grit experience
• One person can make a difference
• Finding a feeling of belief
• The keys to beating negativity and self-doubt
• Leaning into your thoughts of fear
• Long runs more for the mind than body?
• Isolation forces you to recognize strength
• What to expect in an Ironman marathon
• The ease of being distracted
• It would be easy to quit
• Yoga and leaning into it
• Don’t believe how you feel
• Mike’s first mountain bike race
• Why is it so terrifying to fail in training?
• Do you tap the potential when the lights come on?
• What’s your body capable of?
• What is pain?
• Approaching danger zones
• Attempting to Swim the English Channel
• Mike and the Park Ranger

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

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Train with an empty cup, always looking to learn. The questions never end and athletes with a mind open to improvement find the most enjoyment. Finding that passion is what keeps you engaged and having the most fun in a sport that can be demoralizing if you let it. Don’t try to impress your coach, spouse, arch rival, or kids, impress yourself. The races are coming and there are no failures, only opportunities to learn.

Topics:

• Questions never end in this sport
• Inspire Your Own Journey
• Burn out rate
• There’s no finish line
• Never giving up on athletes
• Coaches don’t “make” athletes be ready
• “Learned” coaching as kids
• Flipping your own switch
• Who are you looking to for approval?
• Have you disappointed your coach?
• Where do you set your bar?
• Put less pressure on yourself
• React to losing like the pros
• The collectors after Mike
• What upsets Coach Robbie
• When people force their reality on others
• Don’t live in other people’s misery
• The races are coming
• A C26 Athlete Set to Swim the English Channel
• Find ways to continue to push yourself
• You grow or you don’t
• It’s been really easy to be negative, don’t be
• There’s never a better time to get up and do what you want
• It doesn’t have to be perfection, start something . . .
• Monks and the key to happiness
• Following your passion and be productive
• What upsets Mike

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

  Please subscribe and rate Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes.

  For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com

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We're back in Chattanooga at the C26 Hub and optimistic about a lot of things. The weather, the racing, the possibilities. Today, we look at cutting through the clutter and finding the simplest ways to feel good and perform your best. Coach Robbie talks his coaching philosophy and how it's changed over nearly 20 years. Mike explores his inner monk. 

Topics:

• Back in the C26 Hub in Chattanooga
• The weather is making a difference
• Similarities in endurance sports
• Our podcast philosophy
• How Robbie’s coaching has changed since the start
• Covering the Gray Areas
• Danger of complacency
• Guiding principles of endurance
• Ignore the short cuts
• High Volume Responder?
• Coach’s big value discovery
• New and exciting all it’s cut out to be?
• When new is really old
• Collagen is now the thing
• How do you simplify training/life?
• Trying to get better and feeling good
• The hard part of trying to follow Pro triathletes
• Paying attention to the little things as a coach
• The best laid plans . . .
• Is training really “that” complex?
• Not being so rigid
• The Body/Car analogy
• The Tri-Calc math
• Yes, you can
• Finding that drive
• This SHOULD be IRONMAN Chattanooga week
• Missing that excitement
• Running etiquette

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

  Please subscribe and rate Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes.

  For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com

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One more podcast from the road before being back in the studio. Today, Mike & Robbie talk about the complexities of life colliding with the complexities of triathlon. How to "create your own race" in the sense of a short term goal. Motivation to get better and not use race day as an ending. They also talk about building a 3-sport engine and what you should be working on most with regard to your strengths and weaknesses. Also why tests don't tell the whole story. 

Topics:

• Triathlon redshirt
• How has this year changed us?
• The C26 Weekend Ironman
• Races can be whatever you want it to be
• No race is the same
• Race lead ups are never the same
• What to do when you don’t have a race
• Do you look beyond the race at hand?
• It’s easy to get lost in long term planning
• Zen . . . race as enlightenment
• No absolutes
• Understanding sacrifices
• It's incredibly complex
• Are you up for a 2-3 year plan?
• Robbie’s fresh perspective on training
• What’s your natural sport of the 3?
• Can you get that back quicker than others
• Why tests don’t tell the story
• The power of adding an hour of cycling a week
• Building a 3-Sport Engine

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

  Please subscribe and rate Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes.

  For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com

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We spent last weekend on a C26 Outreach Tour to our athletes in Houston, Madison, and Indianapolis. Today we talk about the experience along with how when life gives you lemons . . . We doing actually use that phrase, but it's certainly been a year of making the best of what we have. We swam, biked, and ran with our athletes on location, but maybe more importantly connected over meals and great conversation. 

Topics:

• C26 Outreach tour
• All about community
• Mike’s Recap of Madison
• Robbie talks Houston trip
• Feeling bits of excitement
• Feeling connected
• The IMWI “faux finish”
• Seasonal EPO
• What do you have to lose
• Figure out a way
• Staying on the road
• Are you all in or all out?
• Staying in the 70-80% range is HUGE
• The power of chipping away
• Workouts are all connected
• Don’t look at small sample sizes
• Find the fun and the energy from your workouts
• You’re always changing

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

  Please subscribe and rate Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes.

  For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com

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  www.c26triathlon.com

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  Robbie Bruce - c26coach@gmail.com

This should be peak season for the full Ironman races we cover, but alas, there will be no pretty medals. So, now what? Today, we grab our lunch pails to stay strong and positive about what's coming down the road. We also look at the biggest mistakes runners make and break down "go easy" and Zone 2 depending on your life situations. Unhinge the intensity and flow.

TOPICS:

• Staying positive about races
• Optimism about what’s down the road
• Committing to connection with people
• A lifelong pursuit
• The lunch bucket workouts
• I wanna show myself that I can
• Keep proving to yourself that you can in the future
• Building blocks of behavior
• David Goggins’ mindset changers
• When your motivator is taken away . . . now what?
• The feeling you get from working hard
• Are you proud of yourself or disappointed
• Mike’s endless pool PTSD
• The Number 1 Mistake Runner’s Make
• Do you run Enough??
• Do you run too fast too often?
• Knowing what’s too hard or too easy
• Has Coach Robbie ever had to fire an athlete?
• If so, why?
• How to adjust your effort to meet the workout
• Go easy? Go Z2? What does that mean to you?
• Zones vary depending on life stresses
• American Gladiator analogy with running
• Being able to “let go” when you run
• Running easy vs. digging in and pushing off as hard as you can
• Unhinge the intensity and flow

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

  Please subscribe and rate Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes.

  For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com

  Facebook: CrushingIron
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  Robbie Bruce - c26coach@gmail.com

Triathlon training is not one size fits all. Today we look at the psychology and physiology behind different training methods. We talk about the value in things like walk/run or total immersion swimming, but also look at ways to move beyond them into running and swimming with more purpose. We also get into riding and running hills while understanding power, ROI, and effort in your training and racing.

Topics:

• Square Peg into a Circle Training Plan
• Facing Fear of the bike
• Walk/Run/Walk Programs
• Galloway Method
• Total Immersion Swimming plus side
• Picturing yourself as a runner
• Injury prone?
• Are you getting too comfortable walking?
• Finding belief in your running
• Mike’s infamous “don’t walk” statement
• Confidence vs. Comfortable
• Turning walk/run into all run
• Cycling intervals outside in long rides
• Hitting power targets on rolling hills
• Consistent effort or power?
• Breaking rides into segment averages
• 1, 3, 10 second power average vs. lap avg.
• Go with the flow on the integrity of the workout
• Calibrating your internal power meter
• Riding through the hill
• The ROI on downhills is rarely there
• Managing terrain during races bike & run
• Effort on uphills and downhills
• Importance of Big Gear Work
• Withstanding relentless terrain
• When you go above threshold
• Practicing max aerobic power for short bursts
• Climbing hills with good rhythm
• How and when to attack downhills
• How long to hold back on the run
• Coast or pedal?
• Ironman Wisconsin hills

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

  Please subscribe and rate Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes.

  For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com

  Facebook: CrushingIron
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  Instagram: C26_Triathlon

  www.c26triathlon.com

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  Robbie Bruce - c26coach@gmail.com

What are the most important parts of swimming, cycling, and running for you? Figure it out, and master those first. Today, we discuss an athlete visit to our Hub and how we broke things down into actionable steps that will help him be better without being overwhelmed. We also look into how we go about resetting our diet and nutrition when it starts taking a murky turn. First episode of listener voice call-ins.

Topics:

• He Fell Asleep Racing the Bike
• Sleeping & Eating
• Nothing is ever finished in coaching
• Confusing is NOT enjoyable
• Unlocking your key layers
• The simple steps for teaching swimming
• Removing fear, intimidation, anxiety in the water
• Unlearning swim complexity
• Why the swim is so important
• Morning swim emotion
• Working so hard to go nowhere in the water
• Body position return on investment
• The pursuit to figure it out
• Nutrition Reset
• Simplifying food
• Slowing down
• Better sleep for better diets
• The basics of what works
• Junk Food basics
• Better diet momentum
• Stretching, foam rolling, massages

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

  Please subscribe and rate Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes.

  For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com

  Facebook: CrushingIron
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  Instagram: C26_Triathlon

  www.c26triathlon.com

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  Robbie Bruce - c26coach@gmail.com

The “gray area” of life (and training) is the most confusing. Do you go where you want to go, or look for someone else to tell you the right way? You should try to understand the black & white, but own the gray. How do you feel about skipping a workout? The way to learn is to push the boundaries . . . and remember that everything is connected. As always, we connect training to difficult decisions in life and today, we look at making decisions on the go. Whether it workouts, work, parenting, etc. . . lessons are learned by experience. And accepting that experience. Do you beat yourself up for “Wrong decisions?” It’s time to stop doing that, and work through them with people that matter.

TOPICS:

• The Gumby 5k
• It’s a great time to be flexible
• Encouraging ownership of flexibility
• Get it done, and do it right
• Ridding the guilt with you, friends, family
• Disappointed “future self?”
• When a coach alleviates stress
• Keeping “within the spirit” of your workouts
• People that can encourage your individuality
• Our realities are different and relative
• Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way
• We need people to empower our decisions
• Links of a chain . . .
• Working intervals into long rides
• The maturity level of knowing when to break a streak
• The addictive nature of endurance
• We all have the ability to get addicted to something
• The frustrations of thing not going your way…
• When people choose you to take out their frustration
• Turn training into “me time” first
• 45 minutes to yourself to be me and feel me
• Accumulated life fatigue from not taking time to yourself
• The social media feed of angst
• When we stew in our own muck
• How do you handle skipping workouts?
• Coaches should want athletes to KNOW THEMSELVES
• This journey is for YOU
• You missing the race or the journey?
• “A man who isn’t his own doctor is a fool.”
• Building layers of confidence on yourself
• Letting go to the lesson
• When you “own it” it’s more valuable
• There is no copy and paste life

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• The C26 Online Hub is now open to the public! Click here to learn more about what's in the Hub and take advantage of our "Pay What You Want" for a limited time.

  Looking for an awesome coach? Former Professional triathlete, Jessica Jacobs is now coaching for C26 Triathlon. Check out her bio and contact information at our Coaching Page on C26Triathlon.com 

  Big Shout out to podcast listener and Wordpress designer Bobby Hughes for helping get the new c26triathlon.com off the ground. If you like what you see and may need a website, check out Bobby’s work at https://hughesdesign.co/

  You can also slide by www.crushingiron.com which is now the official blog page for the podcast. Community and coaching information are at www.c26triathlon.com 

  Our 2020 C26 Camps are sold out (other than swim camp) Find out more on our Camps Page.

  If you'd like to support the Crushing Iron Podcast, hit up our Pledge Page and help us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance!

  Are you thinking about raising your game or getting started in triathlon with a coach? Check out our Crushing Iron Coaching Philosophy Video

  Please subscribe and rate Crushing Iron on YouTube and iTunes.

  For information on the C26 Coach’s Eye custom swim analysis, coaching, or training camps email: C26Coach@gmail.com

  Facebook: CrushingIron
  YouTube: Crushing Iron
  Twitter: CrushingIron
  Instagram: C26_Triathlon

  www.c26triathlon.com

  Mike Tarrolly - crushingiron@gmail.com
  Robbie Bruce - c26coach@gmail.com