31 Fighting Fatigue - When to Push Through or Back Off
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Should you toughen up and push through your training, or should you be smart and back off? Matt explores the concept of fatigue in today's podcast.
Fatigue is not a negative word. In fact, it's a part of growth and you should lean into it. It is earned from hard work and the adaptions can be positive, but you must make smart decisions in managing your fatigue.
Context is everything when you're talking about this vital topic. There's a big difference between expected and anticipated fatigue (in a hard session or in a heavy block close to a race) and unanticipated fatigue (not responding to several light days, poor performance over several training weeks, persistent injury, and illness, etc.).
In today's episode, Matt takes a deep dive on both objective and subjective markers of fatigue. How do you know if what you're feeling is normal or not? A lot of it depends on where you are at in your season; what lens you are looking through.
He describes how to ease back into a regular training schedule after a few days of rest and even goes through multiple case studies to illustrate when it's appropriate to back off or push through a tough session.
Your training can’t be just checking the box of training sessions. Success comes with the decisions you make along the way and this episode will help you create a framework of decisions around your fatigue accumulation.
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| 0:00.0 | Dad, I'm tired. |
| 0:02.7 | Really tired. |
| 0:04.4 | I can't carry on. |
| 0:06.4 | Let me have a day off. |
| 0:08.3 | Toughen up, son. |
| 0:10.1 | If you're going to get that sports scholarship, you need to grit your teeth and get yourself through. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:18.4 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:24.7 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:28.7 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:35.7 | Yep, I'm not a pressure-filled parent. Welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:40.5 | This is Matt Dixon, your host as ever, and today we're going to talk about fatigue. Is it |
| 0:47.3 | Rocky Balboa toughen up, push through? Or is it back off, sit on the couch and relax. Today we're going to explore when to push |
| 0:57.0 | through fatigue and when to back off. There is a smart way to go about this for you to achieve |
| 1:03.7 | really good performance, great consistency and go to the next level. But before we do that, |
| 1:12.8 | let's talk about the World Cup. |
| 1:17.2 | We like the way he thinks, serious with a wink. |
| 1:19.3 | Let's open the book. |
| 1:21.0 | It's time to take a peek. |
| 1:26.4 | It's the Dixenary Word of the Week. |
| 1:33.3 | Yes, it's the Word of the Week, and I hope that you enjoyed our cameo this week from my little boy Baxter, six years old. Off to ride his bike this morning, having lots of fun. |
| 1:36.3 | But the word of the week this week is Gareth. |
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