152 What You Need to Know about Strength, Recovery and Mindset: A Speed Round with Alex Hutchinson - Part 2

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

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 44 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.

This week is part two of the in-depth performance discussion with Alex Hutchinson, who is a leading researcher on everything cutting-edge in the world of athletic 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 discussion series, Matt and Alex tackle the last two Purple Patch Pillars of Performance: Strength Training and Recovery. They also dive into the latest research on performance.

What are their thoughts and what does the research show about things like:

Strength Training to Counter the Effects of Aging
Strength Training Globally to Enhance Performance for Younger Athletes
The Benefits of Muscle Confusion, Plyometrics and Heavy Weights
Key Habits to Optimize Recovery
How to Gauge Recovery and Metrics to Best Track
Recovery Modalities that Actually Work
Cutting Edge Research and Upcoming Trends

Episode Resources

Podcast Part One with Alex Hutchinson

Alex Hutchinson Outside Magazine

How to Make Your Strength Routine Evidence-Based

5 Laws of Sleep for Athletes

Why Bronze Medalists are Happier than Silver Winners - Jason G. Goldman

Purple Patch Resources

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Email [email protected] with questions about team training and strength programming.

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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.
0:20.3	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:23.7	This is your host as ever, Matt Dixon.
0:26.5	And today we do part two of the in-depth performance discussion with the one and only Alex
0:33.2	Hutchinson.
0:34.2	And this week, the focus is strength training for endurance athletes and the big
0:40.0	topic of recovery. We're also going to dive into a little bit of research and mindset,
0:46.3	but I should note before you dive into today's show, if you miss last week, I want to flag it up
0:52.4	right now. It is a barn burner. We get meaty into the topics
0:58.4	around all components of training and nutrition, all with the same setup as you're going to
1:04.2	hear this week, what I like to title, Speed Dating, four or five minutes on each topic allowing
1:10.2	ourselves to cover off on a wide range
1:12.8	of hot topics in the big world of performance.
1:16.2	And why do we do it like this?
1:18.0	Well, because Alex is the resource.
1:22.2	He is on the cutting edge on such a broad range of topics.
1:26.5	We just couldn't bypass the chance to hit things up in a really
1:30.3	broad range of areas. And so, as a reminder, who we're talking to today, Alex Hutchinson. He is a
1:38.3	journalist. He runs the sweat science column at Outside Magazine. He is the author of the 2018 New York Times bestseller,
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