358 - Podcast Takeover: Matt Dixon on Tim Reed & Sam Appleton's Triathlon Therapy Podcast

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

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast! On today’s episode, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon, host of the Purple Patch Podcast, discusses a special episode featuring a re-screening of the Triathlon Therapy Podcast with former Pro Triathletes Tim Reed and Sam Appleton. Dixon reflects on his coaching journey with Reed and Appleton, emphasizing the importance of health, mindset, and adaptability. He highlights the significance of integrating training into daily life, the value of perceived exertion over data, and the need for athletes to focus on fundamentals like sleep and recovery. The conversation also touches on the challenges of coaching multiple athletes and the importance of balancing professional and personal life.

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:04.2	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:10.0	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.5	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life.
0:33.5	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon.
0:37.3	And today, we're going to do something different. We're going to call it a hijacking.
0:40.2	You see, very recently I was just invited on a show, Triathlon Therapy, and it's hosted by Clint,
0:46.8	a very nice guy, but also two former Purple Patch Pro athletes, Tim Reed and Sam Appleton.
0:53.2	I coached Tim all the way through about four or five
0:56.1	years of his triathlon journey, culminating him becoming the Iron Man 70.3 world champion. And I also,
1:03.1	luckily and thankfully, got to coach Sam Appleton through his triathlon journey for about the
1:08.3	same time period. And I learned a lot from both of these athletes
1:11.8	and had really a great rich experience. And so for me, as a coach, it was fantastic to take a little
1:18.4	bit of a step back in time and have a really fruitful conversation with these guys on their show
1:24.2	triathlon therapy. I enjoyed it so much, I thought we should share it through
1:28.6	the Purple Patch podcast. And so today, I'm not bringing you a Purple Patch podcast. Instead,
1:35.2	we're going to do a rescreening of sorts of triathlon therapy. We're going to put it through
1:40.5	the Purple Patch shell of a podcast. And so it's really fun. We dig into many of the stories
1:46.6	and many of the lessons that we shared as coaches and athletes as we went on the journey to
1:52.0	higher performance. I think you're going to enjoy it. It's really organic. It's a lot of fun.
1:56.6	There's a lot of reminiscing, but also there's a tremendous amount of nuggets that you can pull out of it.
2:02.2	The last thing I'll say before we get going with the meat and potatoes today, which is triathlon
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