Episode 257: Leveraging Indoor Training to Optimize Your Performance
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
With record rain and snowfall across most of the United States, there seems to be no better time to fix our lens on the strategic application of indoor training in your performance journey.
“Indoor training isn't about just replicating your outdoor sessions into a less favorable environment. It's specifically thinking about what is the appropriate training to do while you're in this environment, and also connecting that training to what you are going to be doing outdoors.” (26:54)
In this episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon covers indoor training techniques you can use every winter to help set yourself up for success. Matt highlights 3 case studies of real, time-starved, Purple Patch athletes, all with different skill levels and aspirations, who leveraged their indoor training to build a foundation for their performance.
The athletes’ stories provide examples of thinking outside of the box to focus on specific areas of your performance you can build on for the season ahead.
“What you do in the winter, in the indoor training is the bedrock for the big performance gain potential that comes in the six months following. But it's not about just piling on fitness. It's about specificity.” (28:02)
The case studies emphasize the benefits of optimizing indoor training as well as the pragmatic approach each athlete used to emerge with amplified athletic performance, improved health, and a refocused mindset aimed at each of their individual pursuits.
Matt also shares details on how you can leverage Purple Patch resources in your own performance journey either remotely or in person via the Purple Patch Performance Center.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 3:29 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:37 - 8:15 - Matt's News-ings
8:22 - 55:48 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 257: Leveraging Indoor Training to Optimize Your 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 educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:24.4 | Today's episode is all about case studies, and we're going to investigate three different |
| 0:29.9 | athletes that couldn't be further apart in both their performance levels, as well as their |
| 0:34.8 | aspirations and goals. But there are a couple of things that unite these |
| 0:39.0 | athletes. The first is a desire to improve, something that is the centerpiece of everything |
| 0:44.0 | that anchors an athlete to Purple Patch. But the second is all three of these athletes, |
| 0:48.6 | despite disparaging goals and aspirations, all three of these athletes leveraged the insights from inside tracker. |
| 0:57.0 | By assessing their biometrics and taking the advice and applying it to their performance |
| 1:02.0 | journey, all three of these athletes were successful in building a better platform of health. |
| 1:07.0 | And I believe it was integral to them actually amplifying the results from the effort that they put in as we would dig into today's show. |
| 1:15.0 | And the good news is that you can leverage the insights from the team Inside Tracker very simply on your own. |
| 1:21.2 | You don't even need to be a Purple Patch athlete. |
| 1:23.8 | All you need to do is head to InsideTracker.com slash purple patch that's inside tracker.com |
| 1:30.2 | slash purple patch and we even have a very fancy code for you purple patch pro 20 that's purple |
| 1:37.4 | patch pro two zero and that gives you 20% of everything at the store of course if you'd like to |
| 1:43.7 | combine this with some consultation from us at Purple Patch, |
| 1:47.5 | simply reach out to us info at Purple PatchFitness.com, |
| 1:50.1 | and we would be delighted to help you filter through your results and insights. |
| 1:54.3 | All right, that's enough from me. |
| 1:55.7 | It's a crack today. |
| 1:56.8 | The subject is all around inside and indoor training, |
| 1:59.8 | and it all is applied through case studies. |
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