Episode 255: Data and Analytics - How You Can Leverage for Better Performance in a Time-starved Life
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Data, metrics, technology, and analytics - there are tools and tech that measure everything for an athlete. Wearables and apps track your sleep data, monitor your glucose, detail your sweat composition, and offer an endless list of information.
For some people, tracking and assessing every training minute represents a drive toward high performance and specificity.
For others, the data is a distraction that can be confusing and even lead to paralysis of performance.
Some people go all in and build their performance around the information, while others prefer to ignore it and dismiss it altogether.
So, how do you find balance? How do you use the gadgets, tools, and available analytics to amplify your athletic performance?
In today’s episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, Matt breaks down performance data into two main ideas looked at through the lens of the time-starved athlete.
Matt discusses:
- How to get the most out of devices that track power and pace during training or a race.
By just viewing the simple fact that your power and pace is just simply information on output, it can open up the gateway to create a much more harmonious and powerful measure for you. (33:27)
and
- How to leverage wearables and health-tracking devices without becoming consumed by the information.
If you choose to go out and get an Aura Ring or a Whoop band or look at some of the information that comes off of your watches, and you decide to utilize these tools, you better be able to get out of the weeds on the day to day basis, and come up for a broader perspective. (43:28)
Matt provides perspective on how to utilize data and metrics to support your progress, and how to identify what works for you and what is simply cluttering your performance journey.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 5:35 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
5:43 - 54:21 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 255: Data and Analytics - How You Can Leverage for Better Performance in a Time-starved Life
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:17.0 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:20.8 | integrate sport into life. |
| 0:24.9 | Hey folks, today's show is all about data and analytics, |
| 0:29.3 | and we're going to dig in pretty deep, |
| 0:30.6 | and I'm going to try and give you my perspective over the best way to leverage |
| 0:34.4 | a couple of the tools that are available to athletes nowadays. |
| 0:38.3 | But I tell you one piece of information that is insightful, and that's the knowledge and |
| 0:43.3 | recommendations that you get from taking the look inside at your biometrics. |
| 0:47.3 | When you combine it with the advice and experience from all of the scientists and physiologists |
| 0:51.3 | at Inside Tracker, you get clarity. You get the ability |
| 0:55.4 | to actually focus on the elements that are going to yield the biggest performance gains around |
| 1:00.1 | your health and, of course, extending into sports performance. It's why we leverage it at a tool |
| 1:05.1 | at Purple Patch. The good news is you don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete to also get on the |
| 1:10.2 | ride. All you have to do is head to |
| 1:12.0 | insidetracker.com slash Purple Patch. That's inside tracker.com slash purple patch and you can also |
| 1:19.0 | get 20% off everything at the store. Yes, it is Purple Patch Pro 20. That's Purple Patch Pro |
| 1:25.8 | 20. And that'll give you a cheeky 20% off. |
| 1:29.3 | I think that's worthwhile. |
| 1:30.3 | Take a look inside, get a little bit of clarity. |
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