Episode 239: Fixing the Broken Model of Traditional Fitness
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
If you are like many fitness enthusiasts, athletes, and those looking to improve their health and fitness while balancing the demands of work, family, and life, you may be struggling or disatisfied with the results.
Maybe you invested in your fitness journey and your body composition or fitness profile is not improving Maybe you're stuck in an injury cycle.
You are not alone. Many people are struggling to find their performance recipe within the framework of today’s traditional fitness model.
The fitness landscape is saturated with gyms, group fitness classes, strength programs, and get-ripped-quick schemes that promise everything under the sun yet usually deliver little in the way of long-term growth.
The stale routines and lack of results of programs that are narrow in scope and broad in guidance only compound the frustration by introducing a blizzard of information and performance-enhancing strategies that deliver nothing more than broken promises of improved body composition, better health, and longevity.
Today, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon outlines a better pathway to success. He introduces a training model that is tailored to your own life, builds on an athletic approach, and offers a simple and proven training method that defies the broken models of traditional fitness.
In this episode Matt covers:
Part One: The Definition of Success - Building a Smart Training Program That Suits YOU
(19:43) "So, control results, broad results across life and health, making sure that you're getting a sense of connection, and of course out of all, a deep sense of satisfaction for a job well done. This is what for me a commitment - that contract with yourself - a commitment to a smart program should be focused on delivering."
Part Two: The Broken Model - 5 Elements that Lead to Random Results and Potential Failure
(30:13) "Traditional fitness is globally designed for everyone. But there is a real case that, quite often that means that, it's not good enough for anyone. And the benefits that yield from this are short-term. But of course, the outcome and the risk is failure or injury."
Part Three: A Performance Model that Works - 7 Elements of a Successful Training Program
(33:27) "So just imagine if right now I could say to you, there's an approach that is absolutely proven effective in producing predictable results, and also helps develop great traits in organization. And underneath it all, it's shown that it improves your health. Wouldn't that be nice? Well, guess what? There is such a model. There really is. And that model is the development of an elite endurance athlete. "
Part Four: The Purple Patch Performance Center - The Model in Action
(57:37) "You've got your work, you've got your home, and you've got the gym. The club. That's your third space. And that becomes really important... By showing up and arriving here, you are fostering not just improvements in sport, but you're becoming a better person. It's actually building up your social network, a real social network."
The goal of today’s episode is to provide you with a framework for training to help balance your goals in sport and fitness with your time-starved life and provide a filter against the performance noise often found in the traditional fitness model.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 03:57 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
04:04 - 07:53 - Matt's News-ings
07:54 - 11:02 - Word of the Week
11:09 - 102:38 - Meat and Potatoes - Episode 239: Fixing the Broken Model of Traditional Fitness
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Transcript
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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. Hey guys, just before we get going, you know that a platform of health is critical for you |
| 0:26.4 | to thrive across work and life. And as you'll find out in today's show, it isn't something |
| 0:31.6 | that's best left to chance. In fact, one of my quotes of this episode states that a random approach will always provide |
| 0:39.1 | random results. And so why don't we get precise? We leverage InsideTracker. By reviewing your |
| 0:45.6 | biometrics, we gain a complete picture of where we should apply focus. A simple assessment |
| 0:51.4 | combined with recommendations from the team of experts at Inside Tracker |
| 0:55.3 | help you offer and refine in your nutrition, supplements and your training. |
| 1:00.7 | It's a high-performance strategy for everyone. |
| 1:03.7 | You don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete to participate. |
| 1:06.5 | In fact, all you need to do is head toinsidr.com slash purple patch and we even have a sneaky |
| 1:12.6 | code for you purple patch pro 20 that's purple patch pro 20 and you get 20% of everything at the |
| 1:20.8 | store all right with that let's get on with the show it It's a goodie. |
| 1:37.1 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. And this week, we are going to break down many of the issues that we see with the traditional |
| 1:43.4 | structure of fitness programming, |
| 1:46.2 | gyms, group fitness classes, exercise and strength classes, you know, all of that stuff. |
| 1:53.2 | And our real mission is to try and lay out a pathway to actually help fix it. |
| 1:59.0 | Now, this is a performance podcast. So why are we diving into the murky world of general |
| 2:04.3 | health and fitness? |
| 2:05.7 | Well, the truth is that we help many, many folks who don't actually identify as being a |
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