29 Best of The Purple Patch Podcast
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Matt is on vacation, so he put together a “Best of” Series from the initial month of the podcast. It’s a taste of the key highlights of lessons and takeaways from episodes so far this year.
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Episode Highlights:
1:20- 4:55 Performance in a Time-Starved Life
Hear Matt’s introduction on achieving performance in a time-starved life and the four magic words for a successful training recipe: specificity, consistency, progression, and patience.
4:57- 12:16 Sami Inkinen, Virta Health
Matt and Sami discuss the key elements of training in context of Sami’s time-starved Life and how he achieves successful performance in both the workplace and sport.
12:20- 18:38 Dr. Chris Winter, MD, Author of the Book, The Sleep Solution
Matt and Dr. Winter discuss the influence of good sleep on global performance and the benefits and reward system for getting good sleep.
18:43-23:55 Steve Magnus, Co-Author of the Book, Peak Performance
There are two big takeaways from this discussion: What are the mistakes that athletes make during training and, conversely, what are some of the positive supporting habits they possess?
24:00-31:00 31 Brad Stulberg, Co-Author of the Book, Peak Performance
A discussion of the words, “Balance,” “Excellence” and the importance of seeking joy in your training.
31:05-42:20 Jesse Thomas, Pro Triathlete
Matt goes deep into conversation where Jesse talks about the new phase of his career and how he structures training around work, family, and a busy time-starved life.
42:25-49:40 Lars Tandrup, Purple Patch Athlete
Lars Tandrup lost everything in the Santa Rosa fires and he talks openly about what’s important in his life now and how his endurance mindset has actually helped him through this difficult period.
49:47-1:10:02 Kyla Channell, Purple Patch Resident Nutritionist
This was a hot topic and two of our most popular episodes. Matt talks with Kyla Channell. We talk about hydration and nutrition, as it pertains to both daily life and training.
1:10:10 Matt’s Wrap Up
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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 |
| 0:05.8 | educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, |
| 0:11.5 | you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:17.3 | integrate sport into life. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. This is as |
| 0:22.4 | ever, your host Matt Dixon. And well, folks, I'm off this week. I'm trouncing around Europe on my |
| 0:28.6 | bicycle, but we didn't want to leave you high and dry. Instead, we decided to put together a little |
| 0:34.0 | bit of a best off series of the initial months of the podcast best off what is that |
| 0:39.3 | well we're going to go through and we're going to skip word of the week but we're going to get cracking |
| 0:44.7 | and give you a little bit of the taste of the key highlights that we've done over the initial months |
| 0:49.3 | before we get going don't forget the power tap and Cyclops competition, Purple PatchFitness.com, |
| 0:56.0 | forward slash, get cracking. All you have to do is register to win some P1, power base pedals, |
| 1:02.3 | a Magnus Indoor Trainer, and even a coaching consultation with me. Head to Purple Patchfitness.com |
| 1:08.1 | forward slash get cracking. It ends on July 8th so act quick you've got to get |
| 1:13.1 | your entry in by then we're going to do a drawing and you can get some fabulous prizes but now let's |
| 1:19.0 | skip word of the week let's skip the jingle for the first time ever let's get on with the best of |
| 1:24.8 | so the first comes all the way back to January. Episode two, performance in a |
| 1:30.2 | time staffed life. Here my introduction on achieving performance in a time staff life and the four |
| 1:36.1 | magic words for a successful training recipe, specificity, consistency, progression and patience. |
| 1:43.9 | Please enjoy. So as we get cracking today, I want to start |
| 1:47.6 | with a challenge. As we start this journey together and you begin your year of training, |
| 1:53.0 | I'm not actually going to talk about asking for a change in what needs to happen fundamentally. |
| 1:58.7 | You still need to train. Your journey still requires massive commitments |
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