THE IRON MINDS | FULL DOCUMENTARY | ORCA

if you achieve and you calculate correctly you can have some incredible results but it's very easy to miss calculate and fall down the other side of that slippery slope and have very poor performances you need a structure you need the discipline and you need to love what you're doing otherwise it wouldn't work if you have a bad day then then that's the moment when you really lose the race and if you have a good day and if you are in the right mindset that's where you could win the race race day training it all takes a lot of mental energy and I do think the mentality is the biggest part of triathlon I mean physically your body is a machine you can make the body do things it doesn't want to do if you truly believe it can and the kids is if you truly believe it some people just have it and good going in this situation could keep going in this situation and I will always like try to look forward to this situation where it really matters in a way where you really can push and show that you are strong and that your will is strong and that's just something you have to keep in mind during the whole preparation and everything that of course you prepare for the seven and a half hours before this point but at the end it's this point where what really matters to to push that's always also the best the best situation that's where when you really were down with your body and everything and when you're really getting tired and that's where you where you yeah what keeps you or what keeps you smiling at the finish that you that you done it and that you push through it even if it was very hard I mean that's what it's all about in in long horse racing and then it doesn't matter if you are like first place or eighth place because sometimes if somebody is stronger you couldn't just you couldn't influence the performance of your opponent the worst enemy in in the mind while racing is when you come to a certain point where you struggle a lot physically and one part of the mind tells you that you have done enough and you don't have to push it that much or you mean you start to compromise a part of your mind start to compromise try to do compromises so you don't have to push it that hard at the very end and that that's the thing you have to overcome a not to go down not to slow down the mind was just telling just kept telling me stay within yourself stay within yourself keep the rhythm the to me of the bike when the bike feels good it is like music the legs turn over you are relaxed you're not fighting especially in a race that's as long as an Ironman you put in a strong effort for no real reason just to go faster or just because you can at early in the bike it you will pay for it ten times more in the run and it my goal was the whole time stay relaxed keep your focus and just focus on your form because if you focus on the miles or every little detail and you become infatuated with them and just to try to keep just a blank mind of keeping good arrow position and good cadence and just just keep the day rolling positively I think to to really train this moment where you know we're really where the race is deciding and value when you are so tired to how how will you react in your mind and everything that's very difficult to train but of course I try to to imagine how I feel in this moment and what I try to think or if any bad sorts a cure it's like taping a video you know with some good memories and with some good images that's the point where you really need to use all your tricks you have to push your pace to to keep the the intensity all the way to the finish line I think that is where and that's where the big difference is where you're going to finish if you're going to finish on top or if maybe not even finish at all so I use usually I have I focus on different things about my technique maybe for example the frequency of my steps when running or I can maybe sometimes I focus on different things during the last tank case but mentally I also try to dedicate the last part of my marathon to someone else or something that is bigger than myself and so I feel that I'm not doing it for myself I'm doing it for something or someone else and that's why I cannot definitely not quit to win for me is obviously to be the first female crossing the finish line but an even bigger accomplishment could be a victory which is for me and accomplishing something that a goal that you have set for yourself for nobody it's easy for the winner sometimes it looks easy but it's not they have the same problems like everybody else the when when you don't want to go anymore when your body want to quit and that where where the mind is really really mattering and so I think yeah definitely the the mind is sad the end this is the key because your body could do much more than you think but only if your mind have control over your body and could tell what to do because and it feels very it's it's a good feeling if you have a good day and you could you could really make your body could doing things that you don't think it's possible the worst thing when you set a goal and you're working hard to achieve it is when something outside of your control affects it affects the alux meaning whether it be illness injury things like that for example in a race if you're having a great race and a flat tire you have no control I mean that morning you I mean you're training everything could be going perfect and then you get flat tire and it's outside of your control it's not something that you can the you creative control in that moment you go through so many emotions you go through the emotion of letdown you go through the emotion of I can still do this you go through the motion of why do I do this you go through just thousands of emotions in a matter of a second two seconds three seconds I mean and you go over and over through these through these actions and through these these different mindsets and it is mental maturity from experience experience it is mental maturity from your training that you train your mind to push away the negative ones and find the one or two positive ones that exist and to channel those to push you forward being able to control the mind so having a strong mind is very important if not essential and even though a short distance as a sprint distance is called a short distance it's still a long race and you still have to Train lot dedicate many hours of your time in training a long distance it's also a really long day when you're racing so you have to be have a strong strong mind because in the end of a race I think it's more about who has the strongest mind then who has the strongest body no day is perfect no day is perfect to it the mind can overcome the physical limitations into a certain point and also you need a strong mind to be dedicated and to be focused with your training I just focus on the moment and I mean really fear the biggest thing I fear is not being able to do this tomorrow the same thing you do with your body you know you train your body and then you give give it rest and you start to improve it's the same thing with the mind you know you have to give your mind rest to become an Iron Man it's a person who really enjoy and have a passion for what they're doing someone just loves loves what they do and have no intention to stop stuff will go wrong and you will then you can twist you can turn and it's not ideal but you're gonna be there at the end of the day you're still going to be fighting and you're still going to be strong so I think I mean ideally if they wanted to make the heart the hardest deal they would have called it or the hardest the hardest of anything they might have called a diamond demand but diamonds are so hard they're brittle and they crack and an iron mine and iron mined and iron somebody who is made of iron they're hard but they don't break you

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Views: 355,838

Rating: 4.9181657 out of 5

Keywords: Andrew Starykowicz, Sebastian Kienle, Asa Lundstrom, Åsa Lundström, Iron, Iron Minds, The Iron Minds, theironminds, orca, Ironman, Triathlon, motivation, determination, lead, leadership, run, bike, train, mental power

Id: O-YjUg5XrHY

Length: 14min 54sec (894 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 10 2013

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Ohhhh... It was a commercial for Orca.

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I up voted this a few days ago so I could come back and watch it later. I ducked out after 5 minutes, because this isn't a documentary. The not-so-subtle logo feces being smeared everywhere gets tiring, especially when there's nothing worthwhile being discussed. Yeah, a bunch of pros talking about not giving up is good, but anyone who's done a tri knows that, and anyone who hasn't does too.