Episode 258: Developing the Youth Athlete - A Perspective from Matt Dixon
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Who is the greatest athlete of all time? Take your pick. Once you have a name, ask yourself why? Beyond their physical abilities and talent, what sets them apart from the pack? What makes a great athlete?
It’s a question that IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon had the privilege of asking the committed group of young athletes with the BEAR DEVELOPMENT TEAM.
The team is made up of student-athletes, with lofty aspirations of their own, and includes some of the top talent in American Mountain Biking.
With answers like Lebron James, Serena Williams, Michael Phelps, and Lionel Messi, it was clear that each athlete shared a specific set of characteristics and traits that are at the heart of elite sports performance.
Matt believes any athlete can use these trainable traits to achieve their highest level of performance possible.
With many of the young athletes looking to develop into professional riders and find their own success in sport, Matt had the opportunity to speak to the group and share his perspective on what it takes to build a pro career as an endurance athlete.
What emerged from their discussion was a framework that is applicable across many sports and is accessible to everyone, from young and aspiring athletes to parents, coaches, and even seasoned athletes.
In today’s episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, Matt breaks down his presentation to BEAR DEVELOPMENT TEAM and lays out five principles that you as an athlete can deploy and apply today in order to elevate your performance.
"There are very few guarantees in life, but I do guarantee you this -- if you take these principles that we talk through today, and you apply them, I guarantee you that you will progress in your ability to meet your trained potential with your race day performance on an endurance fashion. Because we are after long-term sustained high performance, that's what it means to become a great no matter what, or at least your version of great." - 15:53
We hope the insights gleaned from today's show will help you guide your young athletes or assist you in your own performance journey.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 5:41 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
05:48 - 9:43 - Matt's News-ings
9:51 - 43:40 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 258: Developing the Youth Athlete - A Perspective from Matt Dixon
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:12.7 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:16.5 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:24.4 | All right, guys. Today's show is one that I've got a lot of passion for because it's all |
| 0:28.5 | about kids and youth developing in sport and the journey to great performance. And we're going to |
| 0:35.0 | talk about today, elite and world class performance, but in any |
| 0:38.3 | pursuit of performance, it takes having the right focus at the right time on the things that |
| 0:44.0 | are going to move the performance needle. And one of the tools that we use at Purple Patch to help |
| 0:49.7 | with that process is InsideTracker, because by analyzing your biometrics and drawing from the advice |
| 0:56.3 | and insights from the team at Inside Tracker, you can get precise on your focus. Where should |
| 1:02.6 | you filter out the stuff that are going to become distractions and actually apply focus around |
| 1:07.9 | your nutrition, maybe any supplements that you might want, so that you can build |
| 1:12.4 | a platform of health. And the good news is that we leverage it a purple patch, but you can too. |
| 1:17.8 | You don't even need to be a purple patch athlete. All you need to do is head to insidetracker.com |
| 1:22.2 | slash purple patch. And right there, we've got a nice sneaky code, Purple Patch Pro 2-0. |
| 1:28.0 | That's Purple Patch Pro 20, and you get 20% of everything at the store. |
| 1:34.0 | All right, it is a cracker. |
| 1:35.9 | Today, it's one that I'm passionate about. |
| 1:38.0 | Let's do it. |
| 1:38.8 | Enjoy the show. |
| 1:52.4 | Okay. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
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