Purple Patch Podcast

Something that is often overlooked by both athletes and coaches is the importance of PRESENCE - focused awareness on the task. Whatever your quest or goal, being focused on the task is a critical piece of the puzzle to maximize your precious training time. This becomes even more critical when you are time-starved. Learn the reasons to be present in your training and steps to create this path.

This is a playback of Episode 9 with Ed Baker. Ed is an accomplished and impressive business executive, formerly serving as Head of International Growth at Facebook and then VP of Growth and Product at Uber until the Spring of 2017. Over the last two years, he has taken a leap of faith into triathlon under the leadership of Matt Dixon and, on July 22, 2018, Ed Baker was the Overall Winner at IRONMAN Lake Placid.

Should you toughen up and push through your training, or should you be smart and back off? Matt explores the concept of fatigue in today's podcast. Fatigue is not a negative word. In fact, it's a part of growth and you should lean into it. It is earned from hard work and the adaptions can be positive, but you must make smart decisions in managing your fatigue. 

Matt’s personal case study of how he approached Jesse’s entire season and the lead-up to this “A” Race at Challenge Roth. He offers his in-depth thoughts, strategies, and even training sessions that went into this non-traditional approach to Ironman training.

Matt is on vacation, so he put together a “Best of” Series from the initial month of the podcast. It’s a taste of the key highlights of lessons and takeaways from episodes so far this year.

2018 Boston Marathon Champion, Des Linden, and her husband, elite triathlete, Ryan Linden, explore performance and relationships in this intimate conversation. Enjoy this glimpse behind the curtain of two elite athletes and how they manage their training, racing, recovery, and day-to-day responsibilities as partners in each other's success.

Laura Siddall is a professional triathlete showing the greatest vulnerability in her expressing fears, confidence issues, and challenges she has faced and managed on her path to world-class performance.

In 2015, Chris Mosier became the first openly transgender man to make the Men’s US National Team and, in 2016, he became the first trans athlete to compete in a World Championship. He is a 5-Time Member of Team USA, representing the United States in Sprint Triathlon, as well as both Short Course and Long Course Duathlon. Today, Matt Dixon shares Chris’s journey from childhood athlete to advocate, inspiration and member of Team USA.

Matt dissects the idea of “talent” and what he has learned by working with some of the best endurance athletes in the world, as well as many CEOs and business leaders. The most talented performers in sport, business, and life have similar aligned traits that facilitate greatness, and these traits are the key ingredients in a recipe that enable them to stay in the high-achieving performance zone as long as possible.

24 Erin Taylor from Athletes for Yoga - Integrating Yoga into Endurance Sports

What do you do when you’ve lost everything? This conversation with new Purple Patch athlete, Lars Tandrup, is a story about emerging from tragedy. It's a lesson of how adversity can be a catalyst for human growth, development, and adaptation.

Jordan Ouida is a husband, father, financial executive, marathoner and triathlete who has successfully integrated sport into life with a little “out-of-the-box” thinking. Matt explores Jordan’s evolution in training and how managed to navigate and excel in two marathons, Boston and Big Sur, just two weeks apart, on a recipe of just three runs per week. Guess what? He requalified for Boston in 2019! A dynamic and flexible approach is key and Jordan Ouida is a shining example of successful executi

Matt helps you dial in simple and executable tips to maximize your daily energy. You want to successfully integrate sport into life so that, yes, you improve and achieve your goals, but you want that, in turn, to lift your health, your ability to perform in the workplace, and, of course, bring the best version of yourself to your friends and family.

Integrated Functional Strength is a critical performance partner that incorporates mobility, stability, and strength to improve the movements necessary for sports-specific performance gains. Matt details the many benefits of a year-round functional strength program, as well as a peek into the lens of the Purple Patch Functional Strength Methodology.

This is a story of the transition from an unapologetic quest for world-class performance to high performance across sport, work, and life. Professional Triathlete, Jesse Thomas, returns to talk about balancing his professional triathlon career with his responsibilities and desires to be a great husband, father, and CEO of Picky Bars.