179 Matt Dixon Talks Philosophies of High Performance on "The Greg Bennett Show"

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

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Matt is on holiday this week, so we're releasing a recent interview he did on “The Greg Bennett Show,” hosted by former Olympian and professional triathlete, Greg Bennett.

It was a perfect match as Matt and Greg share many of the same philosophies around high-performance sport and life.

In this episode, Matt:

Shares his journey from collegiate swimmer to pro triathlete.
Discusses the key lessons he learned during that time to become the great coach he is.
Describes how he takes a holistic view of an individual when working with them, understanding their work and family life, what stressors do they have, and other non-negotiable obligations.
Summarizes the four pillars of performance - Endurance, Functional Strength, Nutrition &Fueling, and Recovery.
Dissects how to use data from wearables and why some people will be more comfortable with more data than others.
Frames why fueling immediately after working out with protein and carbohydrates is so important.

Show Notes from The Greg Bennett Show

About Greg Bennett

Greg grew up in Sydney, Australia. With two competitive brothers and life spent outdoors, Triathlon was a natural fit for Greg. Although passionate about the sport it took almost a decade to reach the world stage.

By 25 years of age, Greg was winning international titles. By 30, Greg was winning the World series on multiple occasions and competing for Australia at the 2004 Olympics, where like Laura he also placed 4th.

Growing up Greg had a strong desire to become better, better than he was yesterday. His family was all driven goal setters who would sit down at the start of each year and write and share their goals. At the time this was a chore for a kid who wanted to be outside, but it was the template for the discipline and dedication to reach the highest level in sport and sustain it for almost three decades.

Greg raced over 500 international races and won over 100. His story of having a winning rate of less than 10% for the first half of his career and converting that rate to over 50% for the second half of his career is entertaining and inspiring and incredibly informative. Greg went on to win multiple World titles, the worlds largest prize purse wins, be awarded the International Triathlon Unions President trophy, be named one of the “Top 15 Triathletes of all time” (Inside Triathlon, 2011), “Top 25 Triathletes of all time” (Triathlete magazine, 2014) and “Triathlete of the year” on multiple occasions (Triathlete magazine).

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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.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:20.1	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host Matt Dixon.
0:25.5	And I hope that you are enjoying your summer.
0:28.8	If you've recently raced, well, I also hope that you're enjoying a much-deserved mid-season break
0:34.6	and that your performances so far have been fantastic.
0:38.7	Today, I've got a little bit of a special show for you because I'm excited to share a conversation that I
0:44.2	had a few months ago on the Greg Bennett show with former professional Olympic athlete Greg Bennett
0:51.3	himself. He is a remarkable and very in-depth interviewer, and this chat made me appreciate
0:58.0	how much we as professionals have in common. Apart from the whole, you know, like Olympic glory
1:05.2	thing and that type of thing, I didn't quite reach there. I, well, I wasn't up to snuff, was I? I was just a mere finalist of
1:14.0	the Olympic trials, as Baxter said to me the other day, hmm, you didn't make it. I guess you tried.
1:21.7	Anyway, on the show I share in my athletic journey and most importantly the mistakes that I
1:26.3	made on that journey that became
1:27.8	the catalyst for all of the methodology at Purple Patch, what we call the four pillars of
1:33.5	performance and new listeners will know well, endurance, nutrition, strength and of course recovery.
1:39.5	We share our own coaching and training philosophers as, as well as our thoughts about resilience
1:45.0	and remaining flexible, dynamic and pragmatic, especially over a long and successful career.
1:51.6	Today, Greg and I both navigate full-time jobs as coaches, speakers, hosts, and of course,
1:57.0	my favourite husbands and parents. You know what we do? We try our best. And so for any of you guys
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