33 The Power of Presence - Develop Your Inner Animal

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

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today’s focus is on…well…FOCUS... and remaining present in your training in order to maximize your training yield.

Something that is often overlooked in training by both athletes and coaches is the importance of presence - focused awareness on the task. Whatever your quest or goal, being focused and present is a critical piece of the puzzle to maximize your precious training time. This becomes even more critical when you are time-starved.

Being focused and present ensures the best execution and the biggest performance yield. In this episode, Matt discusses the many reasons to be present and the best path to set up these habitual practices during your training.

It is often said that, “As you train, so shall you race.” If you don’t train with presence and focus, you can’t expect to have mental resiliency on race day. Focus helps you develop your innate sense of pacing and effort and, with practice, can become habitual automation. Quite simply, you develop your inner animal.

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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.
0:20.3	Hello guys. Welcome once again to the Purple Patch podcast and I am your host, Matt Dixon.
0:25.9	And today we're going to talk about a hack, a shortcut, a maximiser of performance, fairy dust.
0:33.8	Okay, look, I hate all that.
0:36.1	But it's partially true and it is central to you, the time-starved athlete, in maximising your yield of performance. Today, we're going to focus on focus. We'll just stay in present or engaged in your training to get the results that you want. And I think you're going to be a little surprised by
0:54.9	what you're going to hear. But before we dive in, I want to go through a few bits and pieces. The first,
1:00.1	a quick shoutout. This is the first shout out that we've done on the show. And it's going to be to
1:04.9	Jay and the Clang at Fat Frogs Triathlon team in Virginia. I know you guys are charging towards Ironman Montreblanc,
1:12.4	which in my humble opinion is one of the best races on the North American circuit, and I also
1:17.5	hear that you're fans of the show. So I wanted to give you a little hello, I want to say thank
1:22.1	you very much for listening, and with a name like Fat Frogs, I darn well hope that you have some pretty cool tri-kitten
1:29.9	T-shirts. Opportunity knocks, my friends, if you're lacking in the apparel department,
1:34.9	the whole world awaits, go forth and conquer. Get some darn good apparel and make sure that
1:40.0	you share it with me. Second bullet point for today, hello world. We often talk about the sport of
1:46.3	Iron Man spreading globally and there's great growth in Asia and Central and South American world beyond,
1:52.6	but I can't help but read out some of the locations of recent athletes that have joined Purple Patch.
1:58.2	To be honest, I'm a little humbled by it, but it's really amazing and
2:02.1	it just sparks my imagination. I just can't help but read off the list.
2:06.8	Bahrain, Central China, Beirut, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, and yes, finally, finally my nemesis,
2:17.1	one that I've been looking for.
2:18.8	We've just got our first connect and athlete in North Dakota.
2:24.2	North Dakota.
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