Purple Patch Podcast
Summary: Author and Triathlon Coach, Matt Dixon, will empower and educate you to integrate sport into life in order to reach your athletic potential because, it is through the lens of athletic potential, that you reach your human potential. In addition to topics such as planning your fitness into a time-starved life, the show will provide in-depth interviews, advice, and insight into optimizing your health, work, and life performance, along with the critical habits and approaches that facilitate the success of some of the world's top performers across many disciplines.
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- Artist: Matt Dixon
- Copyright: copyright 2021
Podcasts:
78 Malindi Elmore - Multisport, Motherhood, and Marathons
77 Chelsea Sodaro - Train Like the Athlete You Want to Become
76 Chopping Carrots - Identifying Talent, Creating Value and Paving a Path to Excellence
75 Ask Matt Anything
74 Beat the Heat and Convert it Into a Performance Tool
Maintaining a growth mindset is everything - at any age. In this episode, recorded on location at the recent Purple Patch Training Camp in South Carolina, Matt converses with two Purple Patch Masters athletes, Rick Wimmer and Ken Pagliughi, about their recipes for success and longevity in sport and life.
72 Effective Communication in Coaching and Leadership
71 Going Pro - Adopting Components of Elite Behavior
Matt dives into the nooks and crannies of performance trickery and supplementation - the big promises of maximizing performance gains through supplements, treatments, and interventions.
While people seem to be more aware of the cumulative effects of training stress and the need to integrate training into their lives with a pragmatic approach, it still seems that confusion reigns among those who are simply checking the boxes. This week, by request, Matt presents two important case studies for the time-starved athlete. He digs in on the training landscape of these two individuals and, while they may be training for the same race distance, have employed two very different approaches.
Travel can be a corrosive experience, carrying an emotional, physical and hormonal toll that has a great impact on your training ability, as well as the ability to recover. The goal of managing travel and training, therefore, isn’t about making performance gains as much as it is about retaining consistency and maintaining your current level of fitness. Whether you are traveling for work, leisure or an event, Matt offers useful tips to help you manage the stress and keep you moving.
Are you change-able? Sameness is staleness. Rather than allowing fear and lack of understanding dominate your mindset, view change as a chance for growth and new potential. Matt defines the characteristics of becoming change-able from the lens of both the coach (or leader) and the athlete (or employee).
Matt looks back to give perspective on some of the best episodes this year related to global performance in sport, work, and life. He reviews the pivotal roles of a coach, how managers and coaches can create a culture to thrive, tips on integrating recovery into your multisport life, and presents an inspiring review of how elite performers STRIVE to succeed during his conversation with Dr. Steve Ingham.
What happens when things don’t go well? How do you bounce back? Most importantly, how do you set your mindset up ahead of time to give you resilience and the framework to come out of these inevitable failures? Matt dives into the many lessons, recommendations, and opportunities for growth in failure or poor performance.
In this episode, Matt redefines specificity to unshackle you from the burden of precision. In fact, a focus on precision in every session is a slippery slope that leads to obsession, paralysis of analysis, erosion of confidence, and an overreliance on metrics. Give yourself permission to realize that precision doesn’t make performance. It’s a healthy dose of consistency, specific training progressed over time…and a whole lot of patience.