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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Find out why thousands of beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes are improving their training and racing with accessible, functional and genuine conversation about triathlon. Two coaches, who aren't afraid to laugh at themselves, look for smart and enjoyable solutions in a sport that's often dumb and painful. Mike Tarrolly and Robbie Bruce explore the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual side of training and racing everything from Ironman to a Sprint. on Monday and Thursday.
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Now displaying: December, 2024
Dec 31, 2024

Happy New Year from C26!

Today we start with . . . Information, disinformation, and disorientation. That’s where we’re at, and today we look at the power of simplicity with triathlon training. Sometimes our highest priorities get left in the dust because we’re shellshocked by all the information. Most of the time you should go easy, some of the time you should go hard. Find what you love most and fall in line.

Topics:

  • Information, disinformation, and disorientation.
  • Word of the year - simplify
  • Phase of disorientation
  • The highest priority can often be the last thing done
  • Triathlon only focus . . .
  • Jordan, Kobe, Seth
  • In some ways it’s never been harder
  • If it doesn’t feel easy we are doing it wrong
  • The power of mixing it up
  • Most of the time easy
  • Sometimes hard
  • People who are lost vs. people who know they are lost
  • What do you DON’T want
  • Finding what you love the most
  • If it’s not an immediate yes, it’s a no

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Dec 19, 2024

Let’s take a little look at your future. Are you training for the right why? Are you letting results drive the train or the process? Stimulate, don’t obliterate. Today, we talk about why it’s okay to just feel good and how you can compliment your state of wellness. We should be proving things to ourselves, not other people. What have you learned this year and how will you take that forward?

Note: We’ll be taking next week off so we wish you a Merry Christmas and thank you for being a part of our journey!

Topics:

  • A lot of people are checked out
  • The power of new year
  • What have you learned this year?
  • How can you be better?
  • Results vs. Process
  • Holding patterns longer
  • It’s okay to feel good
  • Stimulate don’t obliterate
  • A process that fits your life
  • Compliment your state of wellness
  • Don’t force it
  • You don’t always have to prove something
  • Decide who you are
  • 2 + 2 formula
  • Solving the wrong problems

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Dec 18, 2024

Are you taking enough chances in training and racing, or do you like to play it safe?

Today we talk about self-experimenting within the plan. Testing your limits a little bit to unlock the same routine. We also look at how to analyze a regret and use it as a positive. How do you know what’s right? You have to explore a little on the journey.

Topics:

  • 70.3 Worlds
  • Aiming for a 1:05 half in a 70.3 run?
  • Find your long term compass
  • Taking chances
  • Z2 or HIIT
  • Analyzing regrets
  • Playing it too safe
  • We all do better with a direction
  • Giving athletes a chance to be themselves
  • How do you discern what’s right for you?
  • Take what you got
  • Explore and experimenting
  • Don’t let someone else control your destiny
  • Unlocking the mind and your potential

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Dec 10, 2024

One of our responsibilities as a triathlete and a human is to figure out things that work best for us. Stress affects us all differently and one way to deal with it is to not take ourselves so seriously. Life is all about making deposits and withdrawals, where is your energy going? A big part of this sport is believing we belong and nourishing our own box. The minute we get too rigid with ourselves, we’re losing the point. Every great swimmer, cyclist, or runner has their own form and approach. We have to carve our own way and define our own success. How do we get more comfortable in our own skin and the spandex we wear on top of it?

Topics:

  • Bi-weekly dose of December therapy
  • Humanity forces humans into buckets
  • 100 ways to skin a carrot
  • Move your body
  • Hanging stress is stress is stress
  • We have the ultimate control
  • This too shall pass
  • It’s easy to give advice
  • December rules
  • Deposits and withdrawals
  • Flowing with the universe
  • Rigid training
  • Operating in the gray
  • Be a swimmer, a cyclist and a runner
  • What are you great at?
  • Belief in yourself
  • Looks like they’re not even trying
  • Being comfortable in your spandex
  • Nourish your own box
  • “I don’t know”
  • True conviction in who you are

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Dec 5, 2024

Modern life is loaded with inputs and sometimes we have to disconnect for our sanity. Today, we take a different perspective on the off-season. How can we get better without directly putting your energy into traditional triathlon activity? If you’re already jacked up about your race next Fall, you are probably running a little too rigid. There’s a time and place to sharpen the tip of the spear and starting now will likely lead to burnout. Give your mind and body some space to refuel with different angles that relate to your overall health and well-being. Relax and get back to your true center.

Topics:

  • Feels like a harsh winter
  • Training in cold vs. heat
  • Distance yourself from the grind
  • Time to experiment
  • Load management syndrome
  • Disconnect and re-energize
  • We need space
  • Take time away to think freely
  • Fend off burnout
  • Experimenting in your own mind
  • Too Much Input
  • It’s all about energy
  • Favorite bands with only two good albums
  • When it’s forced
  • Rigidity eats you up
  • Overload and obsession
  • Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
  • Sharpening the tip of the spear
  • Connecting non-connecting ideas to triathlon

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Dec 3, 2024

What are the little (but important) things that make us better athletes? Today, we look at how to work at training in a way that makes racing feel “easier.” We talk about going east and west to balance our perpetual north and south movements in triathlon. We get into the efficiency of movement and how to train in ways that make swim, bike, and run “click” in the mind. We talk about natural movement and how “thinking” can slow us down. It is often the little things that make you better than your opponent, and . . . can help make your training much more effective in the long run.

Topics:

  • Exertion levels in the cold
  • Slow Month Season
  • Vests and Ice Running
  • North and South vs. East and West
  • Efficient movement
  • Tightening with age
  • Yoga
  • Dissipating energy
  • Swimming with different strokes
  • Where does your pedal stroke fatigue first?
  • Creating weaknesses
  • Using ALL of our muscles
  • Neglecting strength, mobility, and stretching
  • Wasting energy
  • Making this sport EASIER
  • Highlighting deficiencies
  • “Thinking” we’re in good shape
  • Does it click?
  • It sucks to suck at “this”
  • Perfect practice makes perfect
  • Thinking makes you slow
  • The little things that make you better than your opponent
  • Do it without thinking
  • The 10% rule

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

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