63 A Coach's Lens on Muscle Tissue Health - Keeping You on the Playing Field
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It’s no secret that our muscular-skeletal health - our FRAME - takes a pounding in endurance training. In fact, there are whole companies and industries built on muscle health - bodywork, compression, foam rolling, cryotherapy, etc.
Athletes and practitioners take a lot of action in this area to promote adaptations and avoid injury, and yet, we still mess it up.
How is it possible that so many well-meaning and highly motivated endurance athletes end up hurting themselves in the pursuit of rehab and performance?
Just like our training indicates, sometimes we try too hard.
Today, Matt dives into the murky and confusing world of muscle and tissue health.
He explores key habits and objectives that promote muscle tissue health and, through another Purple Patch case study, provides a coach’s lens on things to do and even what NOT to do when you feel those niggles start to occur.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:09.3 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:13.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:20.1 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host |
| 0:23.7 | Matt Dixon. And let's start with this. When I close my eyes and I think of an endurance athlete, |
| 0:30.1 | the images that are conjured up are ones of runners navigating through trails in a forest, or a bike |
| 0:36.2 | rider climbing some twisting road on an alpine climb. |
| 0:39.9 | The underwater roar of water rushing as they swim up and down a black line in a crowded, slightly health-questionable YMCA swimming pool. |
| 0:49.1 | Sounds romantic, doesn't it? |
| 0:51.0 | But now, if I close my eyes and I think about the habits of an endurance athlete, |
| 0:56.0 | one of the first images that bubbles up is a mixture of stretching, mobility exercises and foam |
| 1:02.3 | rolling. You lot really are a very funny breed. You see, spot any endurance athlete on a plane |
| 1:09.2 | and the chances are that you're going to bump into them on the flight in the galley right by the toilets, performing some kind of close encounter mobility exercises. |
| 1:18.6 | Get delayed at your transfer. |
| 1:20.7 | Out comes the bag, and out popping from that bag is the foam roller. |
| 1:25.4 | Mobility, manual work, foam roller, compression, ice treatment. |
| 1:30.6 | Today, we explore muscular skeletal health and reveal how so many well-meaning |
| 1:35.9 | and highly motivated endurance athletes end up hurting themselves in the pursuit of rehab and performance. |
| 1:43.2 | And in the name of performance, today, I'm not going to tell you to |
| 1:47.4 | add something into your routine and habits. This is the very rare case in which I'm going to |
| 1:52.9 | encourage you to limit or remove some of the habits that you think are helping, but are more than |
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