Episode 250: Back to Basics - Building a Season of Performance
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
With the wave of the new year's short-term objectives behind us, it’s time to get serious about the year and season ahead.
Make no mistake, the focus or goal for most of you is to achieve! Whether that be results, PRs, finish lines, or championships, most people we chat with are eager to take their performance to the next level.
To do that, we must first align with the goal and think bigger about the role of fitness and performance in the life of a time-starved athlete. In this episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon returns to fundamentals and helps frame an intelligent approach for your athletic journey.
Matt frames the discussion in three parts:
- The role of the athletic journey in broader life
(11:55) "The sporting journey is something that can be a little bit of a backbone or a framework for us to organize components around...If you do things successfully, and you get your recipe right...it should be a catalyst for you to improve your health profile. And beyond that, you should actually amplify your energy in the day. And if you have more energy, you're going to have more willpower and focus to actually give to all of the other components of life. And that means better clarity, better decision making, better ability to stay on task -- and that becomes really powerful.
- The unique challenges of the time-starved athlete
(17:11) "It's never just about time...when we just label things in a challenge of time, I think that we miss a really important point, and that's that what we're really faced with as a time-starved athlete, is more of a challenge of total stress accumulation...A time-starved athlete has to manage a huge amount of variable stresses in life."
- A performance approach for time-starved athletes (the four pillars of performance)
(26:53) "They combine and what they end up creating is your own performance recipe. They are in many ways, your toolkit, your method for you to approach everything around your goals and your performance to Yes, take your performance to the next level, but also to go beyond and think about effective productivity, boosting your health and more."
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00:00 - 03:06 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:14 - 08:32 - Matt's News-ings
08:39 - 48:00 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 250: Back to Basics - Building a Season of Performance
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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. |
| 0:28.1 | Hi folks, we are embracing the pillars of performance today. Yes, endurance, strength and conditioning, |
| 0:33.7 | recovery and of course nutrition. And collectively, as we go through in today's show, |
| 0:39.4 | it's all about your performance recipe because we care about not just making you faster but amplifying your life and one of the tools that we leverage to amplify that life to ensure |
| 0:46.0 | that you have the right focus to give you your best return on investment and ensure that you |
| 0:51.3 | can create meaningful change is Inside Tracker. |
| 0:54.7 | Because by assessing your biometrics and leaning into the recommendations and insights |
| 1:00.2 | from the team of experts at Inside Tracker, you can ensure that you are placing your focus |
| 1:06.2 | on the components that really matter and will help you and filtering out the distractions and nonsense. |
| 1:12.5 | You don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete to participate. All you need to do is head to |
| 1:16.6 | Insightracker.com slash Purple Patch and we even give you a handy code, Purple Patch Pro 20. That's |
| 1:24.2 | Purple Patch Pro 20 and you can get 20% of everything at the store. |
| 1:30.7 | Today's show, well, this is from the ground up a fundamental. |
| 1:34.6 | It is a catalyst for all of the education that we have looming this year. |
| 1:38.8 | And I think that you're going to enjoy it. |
| 1:40.6 | And so I'll say you this. |
| 1:42.2 | Insightracker.com slash purple patch and also hand in hand. |
| 1:46.9 | Let's get on with the show. |
| 1:56.2 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
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