176 Gimme a Break - How to Take a Step Back So You Can Leap Forward

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

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

There is no easy way to deliver high performance in life, work, or sport. It requires a tremendous amount of hard work, but performance only arises when your hard work is supported by downtime, rejuvenation, and really positive habits to health and vibrancy.

Matt outlines the mental and physiological benefits of stepping away to facilitate mental and physical rejuvenation—the ultimate accelerant to excellence.

Why’s it so important to provide the mind and body space? How to Implement a successful break and recovery period The key aspects to getting it right so that you don’t regress

Guide to Rejuvenation includes advice around:

How long should it last?
When should you schedule a break?
What should I do during the break?
How to retain all of health and recovery promoting habits
Developing the courage and resisting the panic button
Finding gratitude in your rejuvenation

Moving forward is accelerated by stepping away, so embrace the space of a well-executed break.

Episode Timestamps

00:00-01:08 - Welcome and Introduction to the Episode

01:10-05:30 - Who the Bleeding 'Eck Are You? Giovanni Carriere

05:35-12:30 - Squaddie Update - What Has Made Purple Patch Succesful in 2021

12:30-15:55 - Word of the Week - Butterflies

16:00 - The Meat and Potatoes - Gimme a Break - Step Back to Accelerate

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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.
0:19.9	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon.
0:25.3	And guys, I am the recovery coach.
0:29.0	And so today we will discuss recovery.
0:32.7	More so, stepping away, allowing space from your work, projects and sport to facilitate mental and physical
0:40.9	rejuvenation, the ultimate accelerant to find your excellence.
0:46.1	Taking a break.
0:47.9	Why is it so important?
0:49.3	How to implement it?
0:50.4	Some key aspects to getting it right so that you can find performance and not simply just sliding
0:57.3	into laziness. I'm even going to tell you a couple of stories, so a little bit of Jack Norrie for
1:02.3	my English listeners, all coming up in today's meat and potatoes. But first, ooh, the bleeding act
1:09.4	are you? Well, perhaps without irony, following the final of the European Championships,
1:16.9	me an English guy, talking about a purple patch athlete Giovanni Carrier Italiano.
1:26.1	Giovanni, long-time purple patch athlete, first triathlon in 2015. Just a couple of
1:33.2	weeks ago did his fourth ever full distance race. And it was challenging. It was very challenging.
1:40.3	And just two weeks prior to this, he leapt forth and did what we call the Dirty Dixon
1:46.3	double. He raced the 70.3 outlaw on the 20th of June and then Ironman UK, a great but
1:53.9	wonderfully challenging course up in Wollton on the 4th of July. And so it was his first ever double. And he learned some valuable
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