30 How Jesse Thomas Found his Purple Patch at Challenge Roth

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

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a triathlon strategist’s dream come true!

Matt opens the lid on the coaching mindset as he dissects the planning and performance journey of Jesse Thomas’s successful podium finish at the recent Challenge Roth.

When great performances happen, especially with elite and professional athletes, most people assume it’s simply a result of some herculean amount of training that always had a perfect rhythm and flow. The truth is, triathlon training in a time-starved life is seldom that.

This is Matt’s personal case study of how he approached Jesse’s entire season and the lead-up to this “A” Race. Matt offers his in-depth thoughts, strategies, and even training sessions that went into this non-traditional approach to Ironman training.

You’ll, no doubt, absorb a few key lessons along the way centered around:

The importance of taking a break
Why you don’t always train just for the demands of the event
Why your training should have crystal clear clarity and purpose on every session and every day
Why you should remain flexible and not reliant on a static program that is based on a certain number of hours per week
The value of long-term coaching

In laying this out, you will hopefully be able to draw the lines between his experiences and your own journey of performance.

Cheers!

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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
0:17.2	integrate sport into life. And welcome once again to the Purple Patch podcast, your host is
0:23.2	ever Matt Dixon. And this week, well, we're going to go a little different. We're going to open
0:27.3	the lid on the coaching process. We're going to do a case study this week. And the mission,
0:32.7	the aim, is to help set your mindset and approach to your best performance, whatever your sport might be.
0:39.3	You see, when great performances happen, especially I find amongst elite athlete performances,
0:45.4	most assume that it's simply a result of some Herculean training, a perfect rhythm of flow that
0:52.0	breeds this great excellence. The truth is it's seldom that simple.
0:57.5	For Jesse Thomas, Purple Patch professional athlete, his mission is to find world-class performance
1:03.4	in triathlon, while also juggling his responsibilities as a husband, a father of two,
1:09.7	as well as being the co-founder and CEO of Pickybars.
1:13.0	He did that just this last weekend with what I would call a career performance at the famous
1:18.3	sign distance race in Germany, challenge Rolt, or as the Americans would say, challenge Roth.
1:24.2	I don't offer insight today with some aim of promotion of his results of success, but the
1:29.7	mission is to draw the lines between his experiences and his great performance and your journey
1:35.7	in your own performance. And so how do we develop his season? What do we do to manage performance
1:42.2	readiness with his life responsibilities?
1:44.8	And what hurdles did we overcome on the path to a great single performance?
1:49.7	Find out in today's show.
1:51.3	But first, let's do that thing.
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