Episode Details

Today, we open the podcast to listener questions from our Facebook Group (search Crushing Iron Group). They range from bike periodization, to maintaining fitness without a race scheduled, to benefits of training for time vs. mileage, handling missed time due to illness, short course vs. long course training, pilates, how each discipline helps the others, 70.3 nutrition and marathon training, strength training . . . and more. Questions are bolded below.

YA Man! Can you talk about bike workout periodization and what structures build overall strength that increase the ability to translate into faster bike splits?

• Allergies or Sick?
• Base, build, race specifics, intensities,
• Athletes response to specific stimulus
• If something's working, why change it?
• Attention to detail vs. lazy

For those not racing but want to keep in some reasonable shape/fitness to where they could build back toward racing in the future, what are some tips to navigate that time?

• What fits your schedule?
• Have fun and do variety?
• Be grateful you can
• Get off Netflix
• Your body could be thanking you

If we MUST eat solid food on the bike during an IM, what are the best options?

• So varied but we're all different
• What you can and want might be different than what you should.
• Depends on intensity
• Whatever it is, practice for your gut
• You have to fuel for the run
• Bike calories are easier to take
• Experiment NOW on the trainer

Can the "How to not suck at running" method work for a 11 year old girl who wants to run a half marathon?

• Working with youth is so much different

I know y'all have discussed this before but would be great to get a good explanation of training off time versus mileage. I don't need the explanation for myself (time all the way) but I have a hard time conveying the idea to others that think mileage is the most important.

• Your body only knows time and perceived effort
• Understanding the weekly volume of stress
• Wind, terrain, overall stress all matter
• People force themselves out of their zone

Awesome! How do you coach an athlete who misses 3-5 consecutive days of a high-volume block due to illness? Obviously there's a lot of individual variability here, but missing nearly 10 hours of training is mentally challenging..not to mention your body hasn't moved in days. Just wondering how you would suggest re-introducing training within a high-volume block.

• You can't just make things up, you should re-work things
• We need to figure out why and lessen the stress
• Wait 24 hours even after you feel good again
• Catch up doesn't work

I feel like Mike is not being himself lately. Can we just work in a few YEA MANS?!? Mike has to continue to be the Mike we have grown to love - don't change Mike!! Be yourself!

Also what will it take to get Mike Tarrolly to resume his signature yea man riff. We need a solid yea man in the pod today to resume consistency.

What's the fastest tt bike in the world?

• The one ridden by the fastest cyclist

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