170 Dr. Stephen Seiler - What Decades of Research REALLY Unveils About High Performance
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
If you care about performance, if you want to understand the mechanics of training, if you’re invested in optimizing your training returns to yield the best adaptations, then this episode is assuredly for you.
Matt Dixon welcomes a conversation with Exercise Physiologist, Dr. Stephen Seiler, a living legend in the world of Sports Science and Training Methodology.
After unpacking Dr. Seiler's background and journey to becoming the preeminent Sports Scientist, they dig right in on a variety of topics and myths related to performance.
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The premise behind his polarized approach to training
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Season planning and how it is the most important thing an athlete can do, but with a caveat that sometimes planning is futile
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Dialing in the prescription of training and the mistakes athletes and coaches make when drawing up the training recipe
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Dr. Seiler's definition of stress and why our body's ability to perform diminishes in stress
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Finding Control in Calm and Chaos
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His Trinity of Training Perspectives
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Quick hits on: gadgets, tools, metrics, fasting, machine learning, AI
According to Dr. Stephen Seiler, "No Pain, No Gain" is B.S. and we appreciate his decades of research that has led to the following conclusion:
Biology is not the same as building a garage on the side of your house. It's just not that simple and the training blueprint must be adaptable. Success, even at the elite level, is mostly about consistency, making small adjustments, and creating sustainable intensity over long periods of time. It's not about pain, suffering, and brutality. Instead, it's about enjoyment, persistence, and patience.
Episode Timestamps
00:40-07:30 - Welcome and Intro to Dr. Stephen Seiler
07:30-1:23:20 - Interview with Dr. Stephen Seiler
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:20.2 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:25.4 | And well, here we go again. |
| 0:29.1 | If you care about performance, if you want to understand the mechanics of training, |
| 0:34.0 | if you're invested in optimizing your training returns to yield best adaptations, |
| 0:40.2 | today is for you. Because we welcome Dr. Stephen Seiler to the show. He is a living legend |
| 0:47.4 | in the world for sports science and training methodology. Now, many of you guys will know |
| 0:53.0 | all about Dr. Seiler, perhaps from watching one of his many |
| 0:56.9 | presentations or discussions around sports performance online, but if you haven't heard of him, |
| 1:02.0 | this is a special, special treat for us. In today's discussion, we go through all of Stephen's |
| 1:08.3 | background and his journey into becoming one of the world's most |
| 1:11.4 | influential sports scientists. We unpack the premise behind polarized approach of training. |
| 1:17.3 | We discuss season planning and how it is the most important thing an athlete can do |
| 1:22.7 | while the whole time is grossly overrated. |
| 1:27.5 | We get into gadgets, tools, metrics, as well as how to dial in the prescription of training. |
| 1:33.6 | And we even have little natters about fasting, machine learning, AI, finding better health |
| 1:38.9 | and energy through the principles of high performance. |
| 1:41.7 | It is literally a do not miss. Now before we get cracking, I want to |
| 1:47.2 | provide a little bit of the formalities an outline of who this guy, Dr. Seiler, is. So after growing up |
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