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.

Welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host Matt Dixon.

And it is time to revisit recovery.

After all, it's been a few months and I do seem to have carried the label of the recovery coach.

But the subject is relevant in these times.

So many struggle to manage and integrate the physiological stress of training

in this amplified global stress that we navigate in the uncertain times.

Make no mistake, folks.

The fabric of society is being stretched. Global stress is

elevated for almost everyone and the awareness for the need of resilience, adaptability and a platform

of health is rising. But a key component of development in these areas lies recovery,

often undervalued, misunderstood and skipped over.

And so as you, or we, emerge stronger,

there is going to be lots of hard work ahead.

But success will only come if you make room for smart and strategic, ongoing

rejuvenation and recovery. Today, I, as the recovery coach, will take you through the journey.

We'll discuss stress, both life stress and training stress. We'll identify what recovery truly is as it relates to improving

your performance and we create a framework to help you be successful. Elite athlete, busy mum,

time-starved executive, fitness enthusiasts, if you want resilience, adaptability and a platform of health and energy,

while this investigation into recovery is you.

But before we get going, let's do our Squatty Update.

Yes, our Squatty Update, and this is Salient today's's topic but in the last week or so we've noticed a lot of

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