Episode 262: 5 Key Mistakes To Avoid, Heading Into Race Season
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
As we begin to emerge into Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, many athletes are setting their sights on their B.H.A.G.s (Big Hairy Audacious Goals).
The season is ahead of us and many of us are starting to move outside for more of our training. While it is a breath of fresh air for many athletes trapped indoors during the winter months, it is also the time when athletes start to make serious performance mistakes.
So many athletes come off the rails by way of one or more common pitfalls as they approach their race goals.
In this episode of the Purple Patch Podcast IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon covers five key mistakes to avoid in order to optimize your race readiness and pave your way to improved performance heading into the next phase of the year.
5 Key Mistakes to Avoid
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Turning your back on strength training
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Dumping more hours into the schedule than is appropriate
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Accelerating training load too quickly
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Doing the easy training too hard
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Failing to build and retain solid nutrition and fueling habits
If you want to put the fitness you developed so far this year into positive action in the months ahead, you will be well served to apply the simple lessons of this week’s episode.
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00:00 - 2:56 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:03 - 6:00 - Matt's News-ings
06:08 - 36:41 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 262: 5 Key Mistakes To Avoid, Heading Into Race Season
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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. |
| 0:12.7 | 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 | Inside Track is an essential tool that we leverage at Purple Patch to try and help an athlete, |
| 0:30.3 | fitness enthusiasts or someone that's just looking to shine in life, refine their focus to make |
| 0:35.5 | sure that they're getting the biggest performance yield they can |
| 0:38.5 | out of all of their efforts that go into this big journey of performance. |
| 0:43.6 | And you can leverage it too. |
| 0:45.0 | All you need to do is head to insidetracker.com slash purple patch. |
| 0:49.1 | That's inside tracker.com slash purple patch. |
| 0:52.7 | And when you head there, use this code, Purple Patch Pro 20, |
| 0:56.4 | that's Purple Patch Pro 20, and you get 20% off everything at the store. Today's show, |
| 1:02.5 | well, it's all about avoiding the pitfalls and mistakes that many athletes make at this time of |
| 1:07.2 | the year. And I think that one of the things that you can do is make sure that you |
| 1:11.3 | dial in, leverage inside tracker, and get cracking on the right free way to performance. Best of luck |
| 1:17.3 | and enjoy the show. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 1:32.2 | And this week, well, folks, it is one for the races. |
| 1:36.4 | We begin to emerge to spring, at least in the northern hemisphere we are. |
| 1:41.4 | And we start to come out of and bubble out of what has been for many of us |
| 1:47.0 | a really rough winter of weather. The season of racing is ahead of us and as we begin to get outside, |
| 1:53.3 | more and more of our training can be done out in the sunshine. What a breath of fresh air. But unfortunately, here come the mistakes. |
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