- What's up, Trainiacs?
I figured today might be an interesting day
to do a day in the life of Triathlon Taren
outside of all the Triathlon Taren that you see.
And it's a busy day today, so you're gonna get
a whole heck of a lot. (upbeat music)
So I used to start out days really early,
somewhere around four thirty, so that I could
get to the pool by about six,
but I've since stopped swimming with that swim group.
I'm now swimming with Tower 26 online,
so I need pool space, for one,
and that happens a little bit later,
and with the injury on my achilles,
with that little bit of over training that I had last year,
I've been prioritizing sleep,
so I kind of just sleep until I wake up.
Or like this morning, until Gracie started wining
to go outside, because she's got a bad bum.
So that means today, I got up around five thirty,
and most days start out the exact same way,
just about every single time.
I let the dogs out, feed the dogs,
I go and try and crush a water,
about 16 ounces of water before I do anything,
and then on an empty stomach, I go and do a meditation
of about 10 to 15 minutes, followed up by
all my morning stretches and I'm stretching my calves
to work on that foot injury that I'm still dealing with.
I stretch out my neck a little bit,
because I've got some shoulder tightness here
now that I'm swimming a little bit more.
And then, something that I've tried lately
is I've tried bouncing on just a little mini trampoline
in the morning to kinda get the lymph going,
and then I go over, open up the computer, check the emails,
I check YouTube, our email service provider,
our Amazon affiliate program, coaching plan sales,
just kind of do a once over, and I wanna get a sense
of what videos are doing well,
what free sources people are liking,
just a kind of general state of the union
of what happened the previous day, and then I journal.
I do about 10 to 15 minutes of journaling,
writing down good things that happened from yesterday,
things I'm grateful for, and then
three big things that I wanna accomplish today.
In doing all of that in the morning,
the meditation, the stretching, the focusing,
the journaling, looking at all of the different properties
that we've got with the podcast and YouTube channel,
it kind of sets up the day for alright,
what's important that I need to work on,
and every single day, if I'm going a little bit closer
towards my goal, things are getting better.
I'm not like, a big five, 10 year goal person.
It's more like, what's my goal today?
And if I know I'm getting a little bit better everyday,
things are good, and then, before I end up
going and swimming, I pick one of the things
that I journaled as I wanted to accomplish today,
and I work on that, and I make sure that before I go swim,
I've at least accomplished one of those things.
Right now, we're writing a triathlon training book,
and I come in here every morning and crush
coffee after coffee after coffee
and I stand over there in the dark
with my headphones on and electronic group therapy,
Above and Beyond it's called, just blaring,
and I dictate out what I'm gonna say in the book.
After that's done, I'll head to the pool today.
Today's Thursday, so it is a B swim session.
So it's still a hard session around 3500 to 4000 meters,
taking about an hour and a half.
Finish that up, come back here, and I will edit up
a picture for Instagram, finish that,
and then I'll get into the work of the day.
And that's what you all typically never see,
so it's setting up cameras, and you might see
the results of that, but more than anything,
it's sitting right here on the couch
and it's writing free training resources
and sending emails to podcast guests.
It's researching podcast guests later today.
We actually have a lot of work with clients right now
that we still do social media consulting work for.
So I've got a busy afternoon of a call
that's with a client that's in California,
and preparing for that and kind of getting
the week's worth of work ready for that.
We're also publishing, I think there's three videos
that we've made this week for a client.
And then as I start wrapping up
all the work for the clients, I get the video ready
to be published for this afternoon,
'cause everyday we do a video on Triathlon Taren,
so I'm going in and I'm uploading the title,
the description, all the cards at the end
where the videos pop up on the side
or the videos uploading up here, a transcription file,
and getting all of that stuff done is actually
what I learned early on has a really big factor
of why this ended up growing.
It's how you were able to find me right from day one,
so that takes anywhere from 15 minutes to 45 minutes.
Oh, and also today, I have to edit videos.
A lot of people think that I don't edit any of these videos,
but I actually, for the longest time,
edited all the videos that happen on the weekend
whenever we traveled, I edited most of those videos,
and because we've still got a lot of client work
that we edit videos for, there's a lot of times
that Melissa is working on the client videos.
She's way more talented than I am,
so for videos that people are paying for,
she does all those, and earlier this week,
we had two days of shooting client videos,
so she's actually making those today and tomorrow,
so that means that I have to do
the vlogs today and tomorrow,
so today I'll actually try to edit somewhere around
one to two, maybe three videos if I'm really good,
and each of those takes somewhere around,
anywhere from half hour to hour and a half.
Oh, and at some point today, this is one of the things
that I really didn't expect being
a big aspect of our work load, is the logistics
of all the sponsor gear that comes in that is like,
the partner gear for the Trainiacs
that you can get the discount on with the team gear,
things that I'm reviewing, things that I said I'd try out
and see if I could make it into a video,
or on Instagram or not, because there's a lot of things
that we try, but you never see, because I don't like it
or it doesn't fit or something like that.
And with the amount of stuff that comes in,
we are constantly either opening up boxes,
breaking down boxes to throw 'em away
and not fill up our trash, or going to Piura later
to pick things up, because we weren't here
when they got dropped off and that,
so today, I get to go and do the most tedious thing
of all those, and go and pick up a package.
Get that all done and work is kinda done for the day
and I'll do the second workout of the day,
which is today, going to be a track workout.
MTK comes home around five thirty.
We usually eat around six thirty,
and then that time between five thirty and six,
I like to sit down with her and make sure
that we've got some time to talk about the day,
talk about work, because she works with us.
We have dinner at the kitchen table together,
except for tonight, because MTK went away
to have dinner with girlfriends.
It's fine, it's fine that I'm by myself.
I got my soup, it's good soup.
And at that time, work and working out is typically done.
I try not to have days that are like, 12, 14 hour days.
I try not to work at night.
I try to get like, a really good solid jam packed
10 hours from say six thirty in the morning
to five thirty at night with maybe
an hour in between of lunch.
And if I can make sure that in that time
I'm really purposeful, that I'm not spending
a ton of time scrolling through Twitter,
scrolling through Instagram besides
catching up on some comments,
I find that I can have a good day.
So there we go, Trainiacs.
I wasn't exactly sure how to format that,
so kind of just talked my way through
what I think's gonna happen today.
Hit me up in the comments below
with anything that I left out.
This is the non-Triathlon Taren side of things
that you don't see day to day.
It's all the work and the backend stuff
that goes into making sure that we can do Triathlon Taren
and then, somehow cramming in all of
the training around that.
A lot of people say like, "Wow, it must be nice just to have
nothing but time to train and do one video a day."
Well, it's actually like doing
two full time jobs at the moment.
Working on it and it's a ton of fun,
but it's a heck of a lot of work at the moment,
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And now I gotta go do all this work.
(whistling) It's a big day.