150 Let's Get Cracking: Race-Ready Fitness Starts Now
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Yes, we're still in the midst of it all and racing feels like a way off, but it is time to begin to build your base for performance. Yes...starting NOW. I don’t want you to let this opportunity bypass you.
Admittedly the postseason/prep-phase of training is not usually the favorite of athletes and yet, it’s so critical that you can’t be race-ready without it.
The problem with this kind of preparation is that the real rewards of this kind of training can only be seen in the rearview mirror. You can’t make up deficits in this early work later in the season because you will be neck-deep in other goals. So our goal, therefore, is to build sustainable consistency with specificity that fits into the context of our lives.
This is where the all-important ARTERY SESSIONS come into play.
Artery Sessions are designed to help you put your finger on the "pulse" of your performance and provide a sense of continuity as your training progresses. The workouts will retain a familiar feel, but evolve through the season.
This is Essential: Don’t think of these as benchmark tests. Instead, you are looking for a real read on physiological progress, so trying to redline to improve your time will only fool you into thinking your threshold is higher than it really is.
Even if immediate racing plans are murky, I encourage you to lean into ARTERY sessions -- that can run like an artery through your season -- to track and monitor the progress and effectiveness of your training.
What are these magical sessions that Purple Patch embraces throughout the year? You get to preview 12 of them!
This is a wonderful time to begin training with a purpose and the artery sessions are your backbone that you come to every three weeks. Apply patience, seek mini-victories, and build a massive season of performance.
Purple Patch Resources
Download our FREE Artery Sessions Here: https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/arterysessions
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:09.3 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:12.8 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:20.0 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as as ever, your host, Matt Dixon. |
| 0:25.2 | In 2021, same old shit. |
| 0:31.1 | You might feel like that. |
| 0:33.7 | Instead of turning over a new leaf and putting the chaos of 2020 behind us, |
| 0:39.4 | the start of the new year has been more like horrible business as usual all over once again. |
| 0:45.8 | But I'm here to tell you it is time to get cracking. |
| 0:51.1 | Your race ready begins right now. |
| 0:55.0 | This isn't 2020 and your mission for the year ahead can fall under the banner of my best year of performance ever. |
| 1:05.0 | In fact, our collective calling is just that, the best performance year ever. But it begins now, right now, amidst the lingering |
| 1:17.9 | stress and chaos. And today, I'm going to guide you. I'm going to guide you on the mindset and the |
| 1:24.7 | practical pathway to get going no matter your performance pursuit. But before we |
| 1:31.3 | dive into the meat and potatoes today, I want to do a little squatty update and we've got some |
| 1:37.4 | key information for you. So the squatty update? Well, it's all from Team Purple Patch. |
| 1:45.7 | First, what I want to do is cast our lens ahead a little bit to the coming two episodes |
| 1:52.2 | of the Purple Patch podcast, because they are going to be very, very special indeed. |
| 1:58.5 | You might have read the book, Endure, by the well-known author and master of |
| 2:02.5 | all things performance, Alex Hutchinson. You might have also even read one of Alex's wonderful |
| 2:07.8 | articles and columns all around human performance in Outside magazine. He is, by all accounts, a central |
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