Episode 259: Training for a Time-Starved Athlete
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today on the Purple Patch Podcast, Ironman Master Coach Matt Dixon takes a fresh look at how to structure training for a time-starved athlete.
Whether you’re training for an endurance event, either competitively or simply for personal enjoyment, Matt provides a ground-up framework of how to maximize your training approach to be successful.
Matt shares 5 principles to help build your time-starved training plan.
- Establishing a mindset that can optimize your training impact.
Life is not a spreadsheet. Life is a living, breathing, dirty, unpredictable thing that we love. It ebbs and it flows. Your life demands and your stresses amplify, and then they settle for a bit. And therefore your approach, your training plan, needs to be able to flow and synchronize and dance with this stark reality. -14:31
- Tools to ensure each week of training can be productive, no matter how time-starved you are.
We actually build into the construction of a training program, a little bit of a management tool, that when your energy is good, and when life allows, you can show up, be present and do hugely challenging sessions successfully. -19:13
- Why Intensity is an important tool for your approach.
If you are a time-starved athlete, you better lean into getting comfortable, being very uncomfortable, because that is the thing that yields the performance progression.
- Key strategies to get the training in without it taking over your life.
For multi-sport athletes, it's a real puzzle for you to fit all of the training sessions into your plan in any given week. And once again, we come back to this and say as a time-starved athlete, I encourage you to think outside of the box. -28:22
- How team training can ignite your performance if done correctly.
It's really, really hard to go on this journey alone. And so whether you can create some in person or even online component to it, the feeling of belonging and team is a huge catalyst for performance.-31:55
Matt’s approach has secured great outcomes for time-starved athletes of all levels. People who, upon adopting the purple patch approach, believed they could never get faster or ever make time to fit in the training needed to hit their goals.
We invite you to listen to the show and join us. If you are a time-starved athlete looking for the right fit, we encourage you to contact us for a complimentary call to see if we can help educate and guide you to your best results.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 4:12 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
04:27 - 8:55 - Word of the Week
8:56 - 39:20 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 259: Training for a Time-Starved Athlete
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:12.6 | 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. |
| 0:24.2 | Hey folks, Matt here. And just before we get going, I want to tell you, it's a pretty darn good show today. |
| 0:29.4 | I think you're going to enjoy it. And we're going to be focusing all around training plans and |
| 0:33.6 | specifically training plans for the time-starved athlete. But how can you take whatever plan that you're implementing and amplify it, put gasoline on the |
| 0:43.0 | performance fire? |
| 0:44.2 | Well, one of the tools that we leverage at Purple Patch is inside tracker. |
| 0:47.7 | And the reason for that is it helps get some personalized insight into our platform of health, |
| 0:52.7 | our stresses, our maybe our deficiencies |
| 0:55.3 | and areas that we should focus on to not just drive the performance needle, but also build |
| 1:00.9 | that platform of health that I talk so much about. The good news is that you don't have to be |
| 1:06.1 | a Purple Patch athlete to leverage all of the insights and recommendations from the team at Inside |
| 1:10.6 | Tracker. All you have to do is head to inside tracker.com slash purple patch. And guess what, |
| 1:17.2 | use this code, Purple Patch Pro 20. That's Purple Patch Pro 20 and you get 20% of everything at |
| 1:24.2 | the stop. If it's good enough for our athletes, I think it's good enough for you. |
| 1:28.0 | Now, we're going to get on with the show because if your time starved, you're going to want to |
| 1:31.7 | listen to this because it's going to help you amplify your training program success. Enjoy. |
| 1:50.0 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 1:55.6 | And today, well, if you are training for an endurance event, whether it's competitive or simply for joyous completion, today is the show for you. |
| 1:58.9 | Because we're going to do a fresh look at training plans, |
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