How do we get better at cycling while retaining a strong run? Today we look at how your FTP can be misleading and taking you down the wrong road. We also look at key training sessions that make the difference in long distance racing. Better testing, cycling's body punches, and how every session is connected. 

Topics:

• Challenges of Northern Weather
• Godfather of polarized training
• Cross country skiing
• Keeping cycling simple
• The 80/20 principle in cycling?
• Managing time
• 3 kinds of cyclist categories
• Sweet Spot training
• Is the 95% FTP rule accurate?
• What happens when your FTP is wrongly high
• The hard pill for cyclists to swallow
• Are you gambling with your fitness?
• Swift and Trainer Road
• FTP Inside vs. Outside
• Testing to get better at testing
• Testing + Body of Work Equals . . . .
• How do you know if you had a good or bad day?
• Every training session is a “test”
• The most underutilized bike session
• Building Deep Cycling Strength
• Preparing for the body punches
• The most efficient use of limited time
• Extended intervals or shortened with raised intensity?
• Monitor the 22 hours of the day
• Every session is connected

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Many of us primarily identify as “triathletes” but does that take away from who we really are as a person? And does it make training harder? Today we look at designing your own lifestyle instead of forcing too many things and being scattered. We also look at approaching our lives with balance and fueling the real you, all while remaining someone who plays triathlon, does it to the best of your capabilities, and finds a well-rounded satisfaction in all the above.

Topics:

• Finding a good balance post-race
• Training should be taking care of yourself
• Would you take 5 weeks off?
• Stress is stress/energy is energy
• Your relationships with training
• Robbie’s break from racing
• Half or Full?
• Identifying as a triathlete
• Is it okay to be okay?
• Are you creating busywork?
• Pressure, Over-extending
• Friends support the direction you want to go
• Saving Spousal Credits

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It’s one thing to believe “anything is possible” but another to think “everything” is possible. Today, we talk about the best ways to use your offseason both mentally and physically. How to stay on track if you miss a workout or have a hiccup in your new diet. This is a great time of year to build for down the road, and do it without guilt or a self defeating mentality. It takes a lot of energy in the beginning to build a new habit, but eventually the new you will be on auto pilot. You just have to get there . . . and it’s a process.

Topics:

• Running gets all the blame as last discipline
• How do you increase runs and keeps swim & bike balanced
• The brain body relationship
• When creative workouts are entertainment
• New habits and outcome expectations
• Practice Creating a Habit
• Why are we so afraid of missing a day?
• “Oh, I’ll just start again on Monday”
• When we hit roadblocks
• Living life on an island
• Letting friends or a coach be objective
• Alleviating the most stress and nerves
• Effort is the biggest piece of your puzzle
• Worst in high school to the podium
• New Run Camp Tradition

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Do you live in black and white thinking and a world of highs and lows? There’s a time and a place for “hard” and a time and place for being at peace with the best you have to give. Today, we talk about moving into the Gray Zone more often as an athlete and a person. We look at self-sabotage, insecurities and talk about the secret to getting better. The Gray Zone is not a soft, lackluster place, it’s the place where the real work is done and where improvement truly happens

Topics:

• USAT Quote about Crushing Iron
• Re-connecting with friends
• Building confidence
• Black and white thinking
• Self Sabotage
• Speed work and adaptation
• Are you always more, more, more?
• Doubling down when you’re tired
• Dealing with insecurities
• Should you be doing less?
• Working with the person first
• Parallels with training and life
• The secret to getting better
• Taking the blindfold off
• Running without your watch
• I’m not going out like that
• Only You Understand Your Pain

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Are you willing to do what it takes to climb a mountain or do you prefer a shortcut? People everywhere are doing amazing things and it’s so easy to see but most times we have no idea what they did to get there. Sometimes we have to step back and attack the very thing we failed at because it’s hard and that’s where the growth happens.

Chasing shiny new objects rarely amounts to anything of substance.

Topics:

• Aging in triathlon
• Are you really getting slower?
• Are you accepting your age?
• Fasting and breath work
• Vitality in life
• Counteracting an extreme low
• Fearing boredom
• The simplicity of this podcast
• Do you have the patience to be durable?
• Phones, dopamine, and pagers
• Going back to a failure
• Start over Training Peaks
• Seeking pleasure instead of nurture
• Change for the sake of change

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So many of us want to find a quick fix to getting faster, but running is hard. And it’s where most people get injured. So, what’s the best way to get stronger and faster? Today, we break it all down in a clear, long-term plan for you to be a better triathlon runner next season. If you want to get straight to it, hit the 11:00 mark.

Topics:

• Connecting with athletes
• World Series chat
• What it takes to be MVP
• Running for Triathletes 11:00 mark
• Why Hacks Don’t Work
• Athletic Attention Deficit Disorder
• Running Durability
• Phase 1 of Running (12 weeks minimum)
• Running Slower To Get Faster
• Minutes vs. Miles
• 10% Increase Ceiling
• Adaptation vs. Healing
• How long is long run?
• When to add hills
• Phase 2 of Running
• Tempo, Stamina runs
• Hill Training Mistakes
• Is Steeper Better?
• Training Stress Scores
• Should You Go Past Phase 2?
• Phase 3 of Running
• Beware of Phase 3
• Running by Feel
• Brick Workouts
• Simplicity is rarely simple

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"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there." –Vince Lombardi

Sometimes triathlon can eat you alive, but when we’re down, we can only control one thing . . . our reaction. Today, we talk about emotions and how they can drag us down in training, and ultimately races. We can’t control the weather, the pool lanes, or outside factors in life, so how do we lean in instead of walking away? Today’s success is one positive decision away, if we can stay out of our feels.

Topics:

• The C26 Texas Road trip
• Ironman 70.3 Waco Recap
• Be prepared for the unprepared
• Cold and windy in Texas in August
• Tougher swim than they thought
• Surprisingly hilly run
• You can’t control the weather
• You can choose your attitude
• Do you put yourself into adversity?
• The comfort of comfort
• Are you all up in your feelings?
• Are DNF’s a bad thing?
• Being calm within chaos
• Tough Love
• Perfect conditions
• How do you get through the tough stuff
• Reacting and responding to bad situations
• Are you rigid and stuck in your ways?
• Not understanding the moment

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Robbie takes a tour of the Houston Astros stadium before the World Series and they guys use a few baseball analogies with triathlon. Then the conversation goes into refreshing off-season training along with removing layers of season long fatigue. They also talk about discipline and how that means different things to different people. Workout guilt, non-presence, and how to be flexible. 

Topics:

• Robbie’s World Series Tour
• Family members spectating races
• One little mistake
• This is time to be flexible
• You can’t win the race in the swim
• How to refresh off-season training
• Run Focus
• 3 disciplines but one sport
• Thinking of the future but wanting a break
• Dark, Cold, Moody
• Decision making for shortened workouts
• Correcting overtraining
• Removing layers of fatigue
• Volume compared to life
• Workout guilt and non-presence
• Finding appropriate training load
• Don’t Coach yourself with a sledgehammer
• Leave your runs more energized
• Swim like water polo, bike like mountain biker, run like a soccer player (trails)
• What is discipline to you?
• This is the time of year to Re-Build

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Do you train and live with grace? Sometimes it can feel like a lot of pressure to define our "why" but often it change by the day. Today we look at how we're trying to approach life, training, and this podcast in ways that allow ourselves to take away the pressure. There's a lot of power in doing what feels right and takes away undo burden. How triathletes can find a lot of benefit in the power in the act of simply "doing." 

Topics:

• Mike’s dismay about Wisconsin football
• You don’t have to know your Why
• A new why every day
• Removing Expectations
• Why am I doing this?
• Stillness Is The Key - Ryan Holiday
• Not All Who Wander Are Lost
• Giving yourself Grace
• Predicting your Unpredictability
• When we enjoy “doing”
• Enjoy Doing
• We’re Late To Our Own Party
• Exercise is supposed to give you energy, not take it away
• What is your identity?
• You need to do what you want to do
• The weirdest thing about living for addicts
• The problem with goals
• A consistency challenge from Coach

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Today we talk about what it truly means to "want to get better" in triathlon. We look at how Age Groupers can benefit by taking the same training approach as the pros. We take a deep look at running for triathlon, including what speed really means and why less is often more in race season. Are you over-complicating training to distract yourself from the mission you truly want to accomplish?

Topics:

• Kona broadcast
• Fascinating Race
• Age Groupers Like to Complicate Things
• No Running for Kona?
• Fine Line Between Sick and Fit
• Travel and work loads
• Cam Wurf
• Fitness is Fitness
• Lucy Charles’s engine vs. durability
• Running Durability
• Biking Translates to Run
• 1% overtrained is worse than undertrained
• Can you really get “sprint” faster?
• Biking for Your Run
• Build Your Run Foundation Now
• The body gets better on its own time
• There are no short cuts
• Triathlon as a way of life
• Overcoming overtraining
• One trick/One pace ponies
• Finding desire without a race on calendar

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Once again, C26 Triathlon was on the ground for the entire day at Ironman Louisville. Today, we recap the sites and sounds of another truly moving experience. We're always reminded of how grateful we should be to be able to do this sport and Sunday we saw loads of incredible moments. We also talk about the cancelled swim, the volunteers, the modified start, and feedback from the new run course. 

Topics:

• What stuck out to us
• Run course turns/out and backs
• Cancelled Swim thoughts
• The cold weather start
• “Please don’t let my dad die tomorrow”
• Wrapping Your Mind Around Ironman
• Awesome Volunteers
• Hugs and Embraces 32:00
• Emotional Finishes/Roller Coasters
• It’s Their Own Battle
• A great reminder of who we are as humans
• Getting to the Start Line Emotionally Fresh

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What does it take to stay at the top of your game? Today, we look at what professional triathletes do to race at the highest level and translate that to age grouper training. Simulating race environments, forgiving yourself, and reducing stress through the process. We also give KONA predictions for the men and women. 

Topics:

• Ironman Louisville
• KONA
• 80’s 90’s rock bands boy bands
• Milli Vanilli at the pool
• Olympics - One Day Pressure
• So Many Things Can Go Wrong
• Training All-In for One Race
• Simulating Race Day
• Trimming fat and reducing noise
• The three P’s of Stress
• How Pros take the bad stress out before a race
• Personal Life and Racing
• Forgiving in the moment
• Evander Holyfield
• When we dig too big of a hole
• You don’t get points for 27:00
• “Should I make it up next week?”
• Recovery Within Workouts
• “Emotional Recovery”
• Understanding rest days
• KONA predictions

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Most of us are in the transitional period (off season) and today we talk about how to re-locate passion and fun in your life (and the sport). We are all "more" than triathlon, but it can sort of take over the brain. A lot of time it's about taking off blinders and setting boundaries. So many options, how do we settle into what's right for us and nurture our hobby at the same time? 

Topics:

• Chasing “one more race”
• Navigating the “interim”
• Off season decompressing
• Balance and Boundaries
• When you get hooked in a pattern
• Nurturing Your Hobby
• Pace someone else
• So many options, what do we pick?
• The opportunities we miss
• Self discovery
• We’re always late to our own party
• FOMO of the brain
• The Triathlon Blinders
• Common Sense Approach is Unique?
• It’s okay to Not Know
• Remembering where you came from
• Transitional Training
• Make Being Consistent a Practice
• Go have fun!

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An underrated challenging swim, a tough but fair bike, and a new run course that offers a little more elevation and three loops. Today, we look at the little things that can make a difference on the course at Ironman Louisville. We also talk about some of our favorite moments since 2012, take a few jabs at triathlon expos, and look at the overall experience that is Ironman Louisville. 

Topics:

• 3 Loop Run Course
• Our Favorite Louisville Moments
• What’s Worse, Hot or Cold Races?
• Practice Swim (Swim Finish)
• Swim Course
• Underrated Difficulty Swim
• How to breakout your effort on the swim
• Where to swim in the channel
• What to sight off
• A few jabs at the Ironman Expos
• How and where to mount your bike
• Riding river road
• Protect your nutrition on the tracks
• Comparing IML Bike to Wisconsin
• Mile 80
• New Run Course
• Lots more turns
• 4th Street Live Finish

Link to Mother/Daughter story referenced in the podcast: https://crushingiron.com/moms-daughters-and-ironman/

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The faces told the story, and the obvious topic from Ironman Chattanooga is the tough conditions–but how did athletes that raced well handle heat better than others? Today, we dig deeper into why expectations can turn into future resentments and why the toughest race you'll ever face is the one you're training for. What we learned from Chattanooga and how tough days like this help us find our "why." 

Topics:

• Lots of hot action
• The toughest race you’re going to do
• Assuming things before the race
• Fried off the bike
• Truly knowing your body
• Displays of toughness
• Out there alone finding your why
• Attaching ourselves to outcomes
• Finding your why not
• Comparing races
• Think about the obstacles you overcame
• Expectations are future resentments
• You can’t “win” every day
• When you speak things into existence
• Put for the effort, execute, and listen to yourself
• Are you worried about disappointing your coach?
• We’re never really “there”
• Change is a Process
• Internalizing your pressure
• Racing for free and fun
• Find your happy place in the race

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Mike and Robbie hit the Ironman Chattanooga Expo for a race preview podcast recorded at the Blue Plate. The vibe, the scene, some more race tips for what promises to be a hot day. 

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Topics:

• IronKids
• Race Mentality
• Procrastinating pain
• Jim Lubinski sighting
• Pro Predictions
• Is back to back races a good idea?
• Cooling Buses on the course
• Swim mindset
• Well Wishes to racers
• How to "slow down" your mind 

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Have you ever thought of post-races as a reverse taper? Sort of a cool down back to your baseline? Today, we look at some struggles Mike has faced since Ironman Wisconsin and how shifting perspective and balancing expectations is the right approach to the next goal. Moving on but taking what you have with you. How do we "re-discover discovery" after a long goal is met? We also take a look at Ironman Chattanooga race strategy towards the end. 

Topics:

• Chattanooga Heat
• Different levels of fatigue
• How long does an Ironman Recovery take?
• The reverse taper
• Phantom Pains
• “Warm Down”
• Fitness doesn’t disappear as quick as you think
• Losing the Immediacy of a race
• Races as a motivator
• Psychology behind post-ironman
• Losing weight process
• Balancing Your Expectations
• The Excitement of Discovery
• Re-discovering Discovery
• Process Oriented Thinking
• Removing Expectations
• The Little Things add Up
• Do Your Best and Leave The Rest
• Remind Yourself Why It’s Good
• Moving forward vs. Laboring In the Past
• It’s Okay to Change
• When to give up on Goals
• When goals are counterproductive
• Mini- Ironman Chattanooga Preview

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Who wins? An athlete with the most talent or the one who makes the best decisions? In long course racing, we lean toward the latter. The only things you control are effort and execution and when it's hot, those play an amplified role. Today we talk about how to make the right decisions and why you need to calibrate your thought process when race conditions are tougher than normal. 

Topics:

• Talent vs. Discipline and Execution
• Racing in Heat
• Mental, Physical, Emotional for Heat
• When athletes forgo being smart
• Times vs. Overall vs. the Field
• Is Mike doing Louisville?
• An official bonk
• Racing Risky vs. Haphazard
• Stay cool as long as you can
• It’s rarely your run to blame
• Giving up time on the bike
• Knowing the athlete’s strengths as a coach
• Don’t be fooled by temps on the bike
• Can you enjoy a bike pass?
• Self-sabotage
• Never compare races
• Decisions decide the outcome later
• We want gains now!
• Decisions should mostly lead to no change
• Spending more energy to get it done now
• Delegating your energy throughout the race
• Ironman Wisconsin Tribute Video

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How do you move Speed and Durability Needles for long distance racing? Planning your calendar in cycles and blocks is one of the trickiest parts of training. Mike talks about some mistakes he made going into Wisconsin and Coach Robbie gives us lots to think about when it comes to improving cardio vs. building your chassis. Plus, the key to "un-loading," why hills are so important, and how to prepare for open water swimming.

Topics:

• Open Water Swim Mentality
• How to prepare for Open Water
• Why certain bikes have more drafting
• Why Mike botched the IMWI swim
• How to Swim Ironman Chattanooga
• How to Swim Ironman Louisville
• There’s no substitute for 25’s and 50’s
• Understanding Training Blocks
• Why we get “over-trained”
• The key to “un-loading”
• Handling Odd Work Schedules
• Cardio improves faster than the Chassis
• Why Hill Work is so Important
• How much should we push the needle in running?
• How do we find the breaking point?
• Speed vs. Durability
• Giving yourself more time

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Struggling with your Swim? Join our new SWIM SQUAD 12 Month Program and build confidence in the water. You'll get 4 workouts a week, 4 customized video swim analysis, weekly swim tip videos and discounts on our Swim Camps. For more information go to this link. 

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A lot of times our first instinct is to blame someone or something, but the truth usually sits within us. Our effort, our consistency, and our timing. Today, we talk a lot about off season and the best ways to make sure you're tinkering from a smart place. We also look at the concept of training backwards and the importance of building a chassis that can support the engine. 

Topics:

• Fun time of the year
• Chomping at bit or struggling to move on?
• Resting on your laurels?
• Hardest part of being a coach
• Planning backwards
• Looking at your A-Race a year out
• Building trust and restraint
• Building the chassis vs engine
• Fast and short builds
• When training gets stale
• Intensity and distribution and stress
• Accumulated stress score
• When do you need intensity?
• Strategic Tinkering
• Do you take risks?
• Consistency vs. Modification
• Goals and Guilt
• What are we willing to sacrifice?

Registration is NOW OPEN for 2020 C26 Camps. Find out more on our Camps Page. 

Struggling with your Swim? Join our new SWIM SQUAD 12 Month Program and build confidence in the water. You'll get 4 workouts a week, 4 customized video swim analysis, weekly swim tip videos and discounts on our Swim Camps. For more information go to this link. 

Support the Crushing Iron podcast on Patreon, where the community pledge is only $3.26 per month. There are other options, but every little bit helps us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance.

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Today we stare down the barrel of brutally honest reflection on the training we’ve done for a particular race. How do we genuinely solve our problems. Were we lulled to sleep by peaking too early? Did you confuse a weakness for a strength? Did you run too far and not enough? Midway through this cast Robbie asks Mike a question that may entirely change the way he trains. 

Topics: 

• How do you feel after races?
• When we get a case of the BUT’S?
• Are you energized by the challenge?
• Getting better with age?
• Problem solving as a coach
• Not being distracted by what didn’t work
• Are shorter builds better?
• 70.3 vs Ironman Training
• Peak Phase 5-7 Weeks?
• 1/2 marathon vs. an easy 17 miles
• Peaking too early?
• False sense of security
• Interval cycling
• Running Frequency vs. Distance
• Double Ride Weekends are King
• Long runs overrated?
• Getting Tired Doesn’t Mean You’re fitter
• When more training makes you slower
• How to appropriately challenge yourself
• 35% Long Run formula
• Are you mistaking your strength?
• Who slows down the least defined

Registration is NOW OPEN for 2020 C26 Camps. Find out more on our Camps Page. 

Struggling with your Swim? Join our new SWIM SQUAD 12 Month Program and build confidence in the water. You'll get 4 workouts a week, 4 customized video swim analysis, weekly swim tip videos and discounts on our Swim Camps. For more information go to this link. 

Support the Crushing Iron podcast on Patreon, where the community pledge is only $3.26 per month. There are other options, but every little bit helps us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance.

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Mike raced, and Robbie coached over 20 athletes to the finish line at Ironman Wisconsin. Today, they talk about the experience both from on and off the course. The washing machine of a swim and how that can affect the rest of the race. The ever present onslaught of hills. And the deceivingly tough run course. They also talk about what it was like to experience Madison with a huge throng of C26 athletes and their families. All that, plus thoughts on how you should the Ironman course that’s best for your mind and body. 

Registration is NOW OPEN for 2020 C26 Camps. Find out more on our Camps Page. 

Struggling with your Swim? Join our new SWIM SQUAD 12 Month Program and build confidence in the water. You'll get 4 workouts a week, 4 customized video swim analysis, weekly swim tip videos and discounts on our Swim Camps. For more information go to this link. 

Support the Crushing Iron podcast on Patreon, where the community pledge is only $3.26 per month. There are other options, but every little bit helps us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance.

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Mike and Robbie celebrate #300 podcast by recording in front of a live audience in Madison, Wisconsin. Today, they are joined by 2011 Ironman Wisconsin winner, Jessica Jacobs. Jessica is a former pro and current C26 athlete who is back racing as an amateur after hitting the bottom as a pro. She talks about how she found the Crushing Iron podcast, her run duel with Meredith Kessler at Ironman Wisconsin and how she has found a new peace with racing. 

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Link to explanation of how Ironman Wisconsin transition works: https://youtu.be/3ShFLI_EeLw

Registration is NOW OPEN for 2020 C26 Camps. Find out more on our Camps Page. 

Struggling with your Swim? Join our new SWIM SQUAD 12 Month Program and build confidence in the water. You'll get 4 workouts a week, 4 customized video swim analysis, weekly swim tip videos and discounts on our Swim Camps. For more information go to this link. 

Support the Crushing Iron podcast on Patreon, where the community pledge is only $3.26 per month. There are other options, but every little bit helps us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance.

You can also support us at our new store at CrushingIron.com. We have some NEW classic logo t-shirts and the Official Crushing Iron Spectator shirt for sale. Support the cast and get some new gear for it!

We feel like the world is watching and our time will define us, but racing success is in the effort and execution. There are a lot of little things we can do before and during a race to ease the load. Putting all these goals, specifically time related may be unfair to yourself and will certainly increase the weight and the burden of what is already a big enough challenge. 

• Let Speed and Strength Come To You
• The off-season is exciting
• What happens when we chase results
• When emotions force poor choices
• This is MY year
• Social Media Motivation is So Easy
• Race Day Positive Thought
• Controlling Controllables 
• Let the Race Come to You
• Execution and Effort 
• The Biggest Weight You Carry on Race Day
• Letting go of the burdens
• What if the Swim is Long??
• The unreliability of scales
• You don’t know what your day’s like until mile 80
• When you have zero expectations
• Relieving yourself of the decision making process
• The Brain is your CEO 
• Acknowledge the Day . . . then accept the outcome
• Breaking News on IMWI Tri-Club Point Standings 

Link to explanation of how Ironman Wisconsin transition works: https://youtu.be/3ShFLI_EeLw

Registration is NOW OPEN for 2020 C26 Camps. Find out more on our Camps Page. 

Struggling with your Swim? Join our new SWIM SQUAD 12 Month Program and build confidence in the water. You'll get 4 workouts a week, 4 customized video swim analysis, weekly swim tip videos and discounts on our Swim Camps. For more information go to this link. 

Support the Crushing Iron podcast on Patreon, where the community pledge is only $3.26 per month. There are other options, but every little bit helps us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance.

You can also support us at our new store at CrushingIron.com. We have some NEW classic logo t-shirts and the Official Crushing Iron Spectator shirt for sale. Support the cast and get some new gear for it!

We focus on the Ironman Wisconsin course, but anyone doing an Ironman will benefit from the strategies discussed today. We talk about the unique transition, tactics for the rectangle swim, how to tackle the hills, and what you should be doing on different parts of the run. Robbie has coached over 35 IMWI finishers and this will be Mike's 3rd time doing Wisconsin. The biggest takeaway on this course is you have to stay focused. Lots of turns, gearing, and opportunity to get caught up in the energy of the amazing spectators. 

Topics:

• Mike and Robbie's long history with Wisconsin 
• Transition Explanation
• Swim Line up
• Sighting tips
• Coming into transition
• Tips for T1 
• Staying warm as bike starts
• Getting used to the roads
• Gearing tips 
• So many turns 
• Forgetting to hydrate
• Don’t assume last stretch is downhill
• Gearing the first loop
• Stay in YOUR MOMENT
• Beware Cool Temps Misleading You
• How To Stay Focused
• Coming out of T2
• Stay your lines
• The hills
• When to do what
• The cruel tease of the second loop

Link to explanation of how Ironman Wisconsin transition works: https://youtu.be/3ShFLI_EeLw

Registration is NOW OPEN for 2020 C26 Camps. Find out more on our Camps Page. 

Struggling with your Swim? Join our new SWIM SQUAD 12 Month Program and build confidence in the water. You'll get 4 workouts a week, 4 customized video swim analysis, weekly swim tip videos and discounts on our Swim Camps. For more information go to this link. 

Support the Crushing Iron podcast on Patreon, where the community pledge is only $3.26 per month. There are other options, but every little bit helps us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance.

You can also support us at our new store at CrushingIron.com. We have some NEW classic logo t-shirts and the Official Crushing Iron Spectator shirt for sale. Support the cast and get some new gear for it!