34 Matt Dixon Answers Athletes' Burning Questions

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

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, Matt goes into the weeds with his first official "Athlete Q&A" Episode dedicated solely to recent questions from real athletes.

He covers off a variety of topics including:

Maintaining Strength in the heart of your racing season
What Bike to Use in Training - Do you always need to practice on you Time Trial Bike? Matt investigates the use and benefits of mountain and road bikes in your training
Fueling in Races and that dreaded bloating. What causes it and how can you avoid it?
Vacation Blues - This question is centered around the panic of an athlete who finds himself without a bike for six days! Will everything fall off the rails? How do you compensate for holidays and travel?
Equipment and Wheel Choice - Tri geeks will love this one as Matt answers a question on race wheel choices and decisions around this technical aspect of racing.

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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 in a great sport into life.
0:20.0	And yes, welcome, guys, Matt Dixon once again. This is the
0:23.9	Purple Patch podcast and this week we are going to take a little tangent. We're going to take a little
0:29.0	deviation into the forest outside of the education highway. We're going to get into the weeds
0:35.0	a little bit today. Well, not quite. We're going to do some bite-sized, chunky little questions, athlete questions.
0:41.2	In fact, purple patch athlete questions.
0:44.0	This is going to be all about rapid fire.
0:47.2	Well, about as rapid fire as I get when it comes to answering performance questions.
0:52.1	But we're going to be covering off in bite-sized chunks.
0:55.8	Questions related to, number one, maintaining strength in the heart of your racing season.
1:01.6	So one for the competing athletes of the listeners. For the try nerds, we're going to talk about
1:07.6	the time trial bike. But we're going to investigate the use of
1:10.8	mountain bikes and road bikes as a part of your training.
1:14.4	And I'll add that I think the answer might just surprise you.
1:17.8	We're going to dive into fueling.
1:19.3	In fact, we're going to talk about fueling in races and that dreaded bloating.
1:23.7	Yes, the watermelon-like stomach that so many athletes get when it comes to the longer distance
1:29.4	endurance events.
1:31.3	Vacation Blues, number four, the panic of an athlete around losing access to a bike for six
1:37.6	days.
1:38.4	Yes, six days.
1:40.1	The world is going to collapse.
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