10 Recovery- Your Key to Improved Performance

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Athletes often think of recovery as a weakness or liability to their training. We see the hours that the competition appears to be logging and feel compelled to match or even beat it. Unfortunately, our barometer of success is often a simple accumulation of training hours without regard to the quality of those hours or what we do in between. If we do give a thought to recovery, it's usually in the form of a rest day or a little foam rolling after a tough session. But, is this true recovery? Are we really allowing our body to adapt to the training stress?

In this jam-packed episode full of triathlon history and personal stories, Matt defines recovery and teaches you how to integrate it into your training roadmap. It shouldn't merely be an afterthought, as it often is.

You'll Learn:

How Matt earned the title of "The Recovery Coach"
The story of Ironman Champion, Chris Lieto, and how Matt adapted his training to integrate real recovery during his 2008-2009 season, ultimately leading to a 2nd place Finish at the Ironman World Championships
The story of "Becky," a Purple Patch age-group athlete, who, like most of us, balance jobs, family, and other obligations. How did Matt integrate recovery into her schedule?
Three Components of Recovery - Sport Specific Recovery, Lifestyle Recovery, Qualitative Recovery Modalities
How you can incorporate these three forms of recovery into your plan.
Other valuable recovery resources from experts and authors
The Word of the Week: Sweat (It's not always a good thing)

Recovery is key at any level of competition and it shouldn’t be an afterthought in the large scope of your training.

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:20.5	All right guys, welcome back to another Purple Patch podcast.
0:24.5	And as ever, your host, Matt Dixon here.
0:27.3	And what you may know about me is I've been labelled the recovery coach.
0:31.6	And I've got to say, not always in a complimentary fashion.
0:35.4	But the question is, how did I become so passionate about the subject
0:39.6	of today's podcast recovery? Well, we have to go back about 15 years, and I can still picture
0:45.5	myself sitting there in my one-bedroom studio, the relics of a poorly executed professional
0:50.9	triathlon career firmly in the rearview mirror, and I lay around with some
0:55.4	form of lingering chronic fatigue, or what my brothers used to call laziness. But in truth, I was
1:01.8	barely able to exercise, let alone train. Interestingly, this was a great thing for me, because at the
1:08.3	time it forced me to take a step back. It forced me to take a look at the
1:12.5	landscape of what my sport was triathlon. And what I saw when I reviewed how people said about training,
1:19.6	including of course how I did it, was I saw pros and amateurs alike completely focused on the
1:25.2	stress part of the equation. Yep, the training. Subjects such as recovery
1:30.3	were merely lip service and in fact they were viewed as weakness. It's human nature. All of my
1:36.7	competition is out improving and you're asking me to rest. Well beyond just the rest component
1:42.4	there was a lack of framing on what proper recovery was.
1:46.8	Subjects such as sleep or fueling were mere afterthoughts.
1:51.4	The real promotion of recovery came in the quick-fix band-aids, and this is when we saw the
1:56.7	emergence of things like compression, massage and bodywork.
2:01.0	I felt like the route to improve performance lay less in ramping up the stress
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