151 What You Need to Know about Training and Nutrition: A Speed Round with Alex Hutchinson - Part 1
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The premise of the Purple Patch podcast is all about performance and helping you enhance your performance journey to become the best that you can be in sport and in life.
As the performance engines rev up in 2021, it is more vital than ever to educate and empower all human beings to reach their athletic potential because, through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
For the next two weeks, Matt features a little expert “speed dating” with Alex Hutchinson who is a leading researcher on everything cutting-edge in the world of performance.
Hutchinson is a science journalist who writes about fitness, health, and endurance sports for Outside magazine in his Sweat Science columns. His most recent book is the New York Times bestseller Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a post-doctoral physicist for the U.S. National Security Agency, and competed for the Canadian national team in track, cross-country, and mountain running.
In today’s quick-hit series of discussions, Matt and Alex dig into the first two Purple Patch Pillars of Performance: Training and Nutrition.
What are their thoughts and what does the research show about things like:
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The Coach-Athlete Relationship
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Heart Rate Variability
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Power Meters for Running
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Training Mistakes of Aging Athletes
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Cross-Training and HIIT Training
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Diet Trends
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Ice baths
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Gut Health
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Hydration
…And this is all just in Part One of the conversations with performance expert, researcher, author and athlete, Alex Hutchinson.
Get out your pads and pencils and prepare to take notes on this immersive diver in performance education.
Episode and Purple Patch Resources
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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. |
| 0:13.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:19.7 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | This is, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:24.6 | And this week, well, it's a biggie, folks. |
| 0:29.9 | You see, the premise of this podcast is all about performance, |
| 0:35.5 | helping you enhance your journey of performance to become the best that you |
| 0:39.3 | can be in sport and life. |
| 0:41.5 | And the reason that we do this show is it fits squarely under the mission of Purple Patch |
| 0:46.7 | to educate and empower all human beings to reach the athletic potential. |
| 0:51.1 | And that's through the lens that from athletic potential, you reach human potential. |
| 0:56.6 | What do I remind you of this? Because today we have a very special guest, Alex Hutchinson. |
| 1:04.5 | Alex is a leading resource on everything cutting edge in the world of performance, and you may |
| 1:10.1 | well be familiar with Alex's work, |
| 1:12.5 | via via his regular contributions to Outside Magazine, entitled Sweat Science, or his big hitting book |
| 1:19.1 | on elasticity of the mind when it comes to performance titled Endure. Now to expand a little on |
| 1:25.6 | who this guy Alex is, let me provide a little more context. |
| 1:29.5 | He is, of course, as mentioned, a journalist. |
| 1:32.5 | He leads sweat science, the columnist at Outside Magazine. |
| 1:36.7 | He is a New York Times bestseller, Endure, Mind, Body and the Curious Elastic Limits of Human |
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