14 Hydration Habits in Training, Racing, and Daily Life
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Matt covers the critical topic of hydration through two lenses.
- The principles and key actions around hydration in training and racing
- The role of hydration in your daily life, including recovery from training, tissue health, mental alertness, and energy management
In addition to discussing the importance of hydration in these two key areas, Matt then lays out simple habits that you can integrate into your routine.
On the topic of Training and Racing, you’ll also hear his perspective on:
- The many roles of fluids and hydration in training, racing, and daily living. It goes well beyond quenching your thirst
- How hydration aids in the role of maintaining blood volume and why that’s critical to performance
- The point when your performance starts to decline and how to avoid this danger zone
- Tips and guidelines for hydration strategies in short and long-distance training and racing scenarios
- Types of fluids to drink and how much during training and racing
- Additional factors that impact individual hydration needs during training and racing
On the topic of Daily Life, Matt outlines:
- The importance of water in your body’s immune system, tissue repair, and cellular health
- How proper hydration plays a performance-driven role in your work and life with increased mental clarity, better critical thinking, and alertness
- Tips and guidelines for hydration as a sustainable daily life habit.
The goal of this episode is to establish the right lens, the right mindset and outline key concepts setting you up for peak performance in training and daily life.
:00-:21 Matt’s Weekly Welcome
:21- 1:40 Episode Intro
1:55-4:57 Word of the Week - The Journey. You cannot rush physiology and you cannot rush the process. Establish long-term simple habits that are sustainable. Then, you will enjoy the journey.
5:10-26:30 Hydration for Training and Racing
26:35 Hydration for Daily Life
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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. |
| 0:20.7 | And greetings once again, Matt Dixon here, your host with the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:25.8 | And this week, we're going to talk about hydration. |
| 0:28.6 | And we're going to do this through two lenses. |
| 0:30.9 | The first is performance hydration in training and racing. |
| 0:34.2 | The second, we're going to talk about the importance of hydration in your daily life. |
| 0:38.7 | Accumulatively, when we add them both up, they become critical for your performance journey. |
| 0:43.9 | Just as we did in our two-part series on nutrition and fueling, we're going to approach this in |
| 0:48.1 | exactly the same way. Today, me, myself and I outline the key concepts and establish our lens on hydration. |
| 0:56.4 | And then in part two, we're going to bring back our purple patch resident nutritionist, |
| 1:00.3 | Kyla Chanel, and I'm going to get into the nitty-gritty of all the details and get a little bit more granular. |
| 1:06.0 | Start to give you some actual numbers around hydration that you might want to think about. |
| 1:10.2 | Before we dive into the subject, |
| 1:11.8 | a quick personal note. If you like what you hear on the podcast and you're enjoying it so far, |
| 1:16.4 | you might want to take an opportunity for a deeper dive. My second book, The Fast Track Triathlete, |
| 1:22.0 | gets much deeper in many of the concepts that we establish here. And I think you can enjoy this |
| 1:27.3 | and get your own copy at purple patchfitness.com. |
| 1:30.6 | Hey, I'm even happy to desecrate it with my own signature. |
| 1:34.5 | Well, now that I'm clear of my shameless plug, we can get on with that thing, Word of the Week. |
| 1:39.3 | We like the way he thinks, serious with a wink. |
| 1:43.9 | Let's open the book. It's time to take a peek it's the dixenary word of the week |
| 1:53.2 | the word of the week this week the journey the journey yes this is key around establishing your |
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