221 Becoming a Better Coach - Leveraging Experts to Help Athletes
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
So you’ve gone all-in and put your training in the hands of your coach.
It’s their role to build the framework of performance and provide clarity, accountability, and guidance through your evolution as an athlete.
But how does a coach evolve beyond education and experience to become a more effective pillar of support? How do they improve themselves and grow in order to help you, the athlete, thrive?
Matt answers that question with the help of Purple Patch Coach Mike Olzinksi and leading performance nutritionist, Scott Tindal, as they examine the role of mentorships in coaching.
Over the last year, Mike leveraged Scott’s nutrition expertise to help facilitate high performance in several of his athletes. They discuss the importance of that collaboration to the overall success of two Purple Patch athletes, Kinga Kimbrel and Elliot Block.
With the help of Mike and Scott, Kinga, relatively new to the sport of triathlon, finds perspective in training through a focus on her nutritional deficits, while Elliot defies the odds with a new approach to fueling.
Matt, Mike, and Scott provide insight on:
- The hesitance of some coaches in seeking assistance outside of their realm of expertise.
(19:19) ”The coach is hired by the athlete and has this often internal burden that they carry that they need to have every answer to every question and expertise across every subject, which of course is a dangerous thing if you think that you really are a master of everything.”
- Leveraging the benefits of knowledge in related fields to help drive performance and facilitate recovery.
(17:53) “Tweaks are required in order to get the best out of the athlete. And it's about providing solutions to the problems that we're presented with using the best available science, the best available evidence.”
- The symbiotic relationship between nutrition coaching and performance training.
(48:43) “Nutrition shouldn't be viewed as like, Oh, I've got a nutrition program, and I've got a training program, they're just synonymous with each other. And if you want to do a really good training block, you're gonna need to fuel yourself appropriately.”
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(39:18) Case Study: Kinga Kimbrel - The marriage of passion, potential, and science.
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(56:14) Case Study: Elliot Block - Solving the protein problem.
Episode Timestamps
0:00-09:59 Introduction and Matt's Personal Picks
Purple Patch Blog - How to Race Effectively in Hot and Humid Conditions
Purple Patch Blog - Are You in a Broken Triathlon Coaching Relationship?
Purple Patch Athlete Case Study - Kinga Kimbrel
Learn More About Scott Tindal and FuelIn
The Purple Patch Center is Open - Learn More and Schedule a Visit
Purple Patch Website and Newsletter
10:14- The Meat and Potatoes - Leveraging Expertise to Expand Knowledge and Performance
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:20.5 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, |
| 0:24.1 | your host Matt Dixon. Let me tell you something today about the very highest performers that I've |
| 0:31.2 | ever worked with, the best athletes, CEOs, other C-level executives. What are some of their characteristics? |
| 0:38.3 | Some of their traits? |
| 0:39.3 | Well, it might not surprise you to realize that they have the same parallel traits, |
| 0:45.3 | and they always express themselves, but one of them is always present. |
| 0:49.3 | The people that create enduring greatness, high performance, always value being coached. So it begs |
| 0:58.7 | the question, what is good coaching? What's the value of a coach? Well, of course, a good coach |
| 1:03.9 | can help build perspective, drive mission, build the framework of performance. On top of that, |
| 1:10.4 | a coach should be able to establish |
| 1:11.9 | clarity, understanding, buying from the athlete or the leader, and then ultimately hold that |
| 1:19.3 | person to account to their observations. This is what we're going to focus on, and I am here |
| 1:24.2 | to hold you to account. And as they go along the twisting, winding journey to high performance, |
| 1:30.7 | whenever they go down the coldest acts of adversity and the roll blocks, |
| 1:34.3 | look, they will inevitably face. |
| 1:36.1 | A great coach will be able to provide perspective |
| 1:39.0 | to help the athletes or the leader get out of the room, |
| 1:43.3 | come up a level and see the bigger picture. |
| 1:46.3 | Now it's interesting that at times of adversity or really stressful situations, it is when |
| 1:51.1 | the coaches become the most valuable. Because when an athlete or a leader is really facing a |
| 1:57.5 | challenge and there's high stress, it's really tough for them to remember the tools |
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