58 Strong Like Bull - Strength Training for Endurance Athletes

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

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Many triathletes tend to be busy people with very full lives, making participation in the sport a jigsaw of time management, physical challenges, and mental stresses.

With the combination of three sports into one, training is not an easy puzzle to create, especially when considering the additional components such as sleep, nutrition, fueling, equipment choices, and environmental stresses (heat, altitude, etc).

With all this, it is no wonder that athletes often turn their back on strength and conditioning (S+C) as a component of their approach to performance. Unfortunately, this is a huge mistake.

Fortunately, an effective S+C program should not need to consume many of your valuable training hours. Still, in order to commit to a year-round program, you must understand the value of creating a consistent routine.

In today's episode, Matt Dixon goes through real-life case studies of Purple Patch athletes who are challenged with integrating a strength and conditioning into their routine.

Matt discusses four areas for each:

Profile - Who are these athletes? What does their life and work look like?
Challenges and Needs Relative to their Profile
Implementation - How did they go about creating a strength and conditioning routine?
Outcome - What were the results of doing so?

In order to become a complete and well-rounded athlete, you must shift your perspective on functional strength towards one of performance enhancement.

To learn more about how Purple Patch integrates functional strength into our coaching, visit our coaching page and schedule a call with a coach.

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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
0:17.3	integrate sport into life. And welcome once again to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever your host, Matt Dixon.
0:26.0	And what the focus of today's show is strength and conditioning for the endurance athlete
0:30.5	and, of course, the performance-minded fitness enthusiast.
0:34.6	And, well, you probably don't need me to tell you this by now but strength and conditioning is one
0:38.7	of the pillars of performance but today we're going to dig much deeper you see today it's all
0:44.4	about applied methodology so how we actually put it into practice and the predominant coaching
0:51.2	mindset behind the application we're going to do this via three case
0:55.3	studies with vastly different profiles of, yeah, real purple patch athletes, each one different,
1:02.2	each with different goals, but all the same in wanting to involve and, of course, seeking
1:07.4	to improve their performance within the context of their life. So I hope the show helps you when integrating, and there's that word again integration,
1:16.3	integrating strength and conditioning into your time-starved life.
1:21.0	Before we do so, why don't we get on with the jingle?
1:23.6	We like the way he thinks, serious with a wink.
1:28.1	Let's open the book.
1:30.2	It's time to take a peek.
1:32.8	It's the Dixenary Word of the Week.
1:37.6	And the word of the week this week is recuperation.
1:41.6	Recuperation.
1:42.2	In fact, it's not that much of a fun one this week in many ways, because we're going to talk about recuperation from injury.
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