Episode 260: Ten Key Habits to Build Performance in Health, Work and Life
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As a companion to last week’s Purple patch Podcast episode on training plans for time-starved endurance athletes, today’s episode broadens the perspective by focusing on performance in health, work, and life.
ironman master coach Matt Dixon outlines a list of ten principles you need to put into action to build a platform of health and sustainable high performance.
You don’t need to be a pro athlete or even an experienced fitness enthusiast to apply these principles and maximize your results at home, work, or in the gym.
Matt walks us through a simple and actionable roadmap that will help you make informed health choices and simplify your approach to training so you can thrive in all areas of life.
These core habits are part of a proven approach built around promoting sustainability and long-term success in your performance journey.
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Train, don’t exercise
You don't need to be training for a specific event in order to adopt an athletic mindset and approach. 11:33
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Embrace High Intensity
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Embrace the soul-filling decompression
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Integrate strength
What I'm talking about here is not cosmetic lifting. This ain't Gold's Gym. In fact, what we're talking about here is...an opportunity to challenge yourself to live life to the fullest...This is about functional living. 23:20
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Dial in daily hydration
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Post Workout fueling
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Food for Fuel Mindset
when you get that right, then you're going to stabilize energy, have consistency of your exercise and training performance sessions. And you're going to have a better immune system, and better resilience throughout the course of the day. 30:19
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Limit alcohol
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Prioritize sleep
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Do stuff with others
It becomes more fun. It drives better performance, better engagement, and ultimately, it delivers greater rewards. 40:23
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 4:57 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
05:12 - 8:21 - Word of the Week
8:29 - 43:00 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 260: Ten Key Habits to Build Performance in Health, Work and Life
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. |
| 0:06.6 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:12.5 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:15.9 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:24.1 | Hey guys, in today's show, we broaden our perspective from last week's show when we were |
| 0:28.7 | talking about training plans for endurance athletes. And today we talk about life performance. |
| 0:34.5 | Yes, showing up the best version of yourself that is possible. But in this very |
| 0:39.4 | broad topic, there is a blizzard of distracting and confusing information. And where should you |
| 0:47.4 | apply your focus to try and move the performance needle? It can be a real challenge. But one of the |
| 0:54.1 | tools that we use is Inside |
| 0:55.8 | Tracker. By assessing your biometrics and then combining that with the insights from the team of |
| 1:01.9 | scientists and experts at Inside Tracker, we get to apply focus around the elements that we know |
| 1:08.1 | are going to help you. And it's one of the key aspects of our performance |
| 1:12.4 | journey that we leverage at Purple Patch. But you don't even need to be a Purple Patch athlete to |
| 1:17.4 | leverage Insightracker. All you need to do is head to Insightracker.com slash Purple Patch. And we have a |
| 1:24.0 | nice code here. Purple Patch Pro 20. That's Purple Patch Pro 20. |
| 1:28.3 | And you get 20% of everything at the store. |
| 1:31.7 | We're going to talk about performance today, |
| 1:33.4 | but you might just think about leveraging a magical tool to help you in your performance journey. |
| 1:40.1 | And with that, join me. |
| 1:41.5 | Hold hands. |
| 1:42.1 | Let's get on with the show. |
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