68 Successful Management of Travel and Training

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

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Matt Dixon and Purple Patch were recently featured on CNN with an in-depth piece on Managing Travel. View that story HERE and look for it at airports across the country.

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Travel can be a corrosive experience, carrying an emotional, physical and hormonal toll that has a great impact on your training ability, as well as the ability to recover.

The biggest mistake many of us make is to disregard the negative stressors of travel, and simply cram in, or make up missed sessions, without any focus on the management of the schedule to synchronize with the unavoidable effect of travel plans.

The goal of managing travel, therefore, isn’t about making performance gains as much as it is about retaining consistency and maintaining your current level of fitness. Quite simply? You have to develop an athletic mindset in order to manage travel.

Whether you are traveling for work, leisure or an event, Matt offers useful tips to help you manage the stress of travel in four key areas:

Before Travel - Set Yourself Up for Success
During Travel - How to Minimize Stress
Arrival at Your Destination
Training Management - What Should Your Approach Be?

Integrate these little tricks with travel, and you will be sure to limit potential damage and allow for consistency in your training.

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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,
0:11.2	you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere
0:17.2	integrate sport into life. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever,
0:23.1	your host Matt Dixon. And today, we're going to talk about travel. You see, in our performance
0:29.8	world, we constantly aim to maximize the very specific and deliberate physiological stress,
0:36.5	that word is important, stress of training, seeking optimal
0:40.3	adaptations from our hard work. But we're also doing this while we're juggling the management
0:45.2	of all of the other stresses in our life, work, relationships, sleep, you name it. And in a time
0:51.3	star of life, we're spinning the plates of stress, looking to drive forward and be highly effective in our training.
0:58.7	But we also want to thrive in all the other aspects of a life.
1:03.5	Bring the hurricane. Travel.
1:07.0	A corrosive stressor that dismantles so many athletes' ability to evolve and improve.
1:13.1	Today, we dig in.
1:14.9	We provide the ABCs of travel management and performance.
1:18.6	We cannot escape the physiological stress of travel, the topsy-turvy time zone shifts,
1:24.7	nor even the unhelpful airline employee who seems to light up at the chance
1:29.0	to charge you the extra couple of hundred dollars just for seeing your bike safely, perhaps
1:34.6	safely, get onto the plane. But what we can do today is provide strategies and tools to minimize
1:40.3	the emotional and physical stress and ultimately offset the impact on your performance journey.
1:46.5	It doesn't matter if you're a time-starved executive looking to arrive, ready to perform in the
1:52.4	business meetings, or if you're an athlete looking to minimize disruption to that all-important
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