Episode 264: Ask Matt Anything - Troubleshooting Training to Race Day
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another "Ask Matt Anything" edition of the Purple Patch Podcast. Today IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon tackles your voicemails and emails. You asked and today Matt answers your questions on training and racing through a coach’s lens.
In this installment of "Ask Matt Anything", Matt answers your questions related to:
- Management of training
- Expectations around improvement
- Race preparation strategy
- And much more
Episode Timestamps
0:00 - 03:28 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
3:43 - 07:24 - Word of the Week
07:32 - 37:53 - The Meat and Potatoes: Episode 264: Ask Matt Anything - Troubleshooting Training to Race Day
08:30 - Question 1 from Joan: “I struggle with keeping up the hard training as well as my performance when I head to work. I often find myself falling into really deep drowsiness in the middle of the afternoon desperate for sleep. I try and battle through and I can certainly feel like it's impacting my focus and my productivity in the afternoon. I feel like I sleep okay. But I just wonder what I should try and do to improve my afternoon energy. Is it the hard training that's negatively impacting me?”
"The good news is that all of the things I'm going to suggest are pretty simple, they're actionable. And I think that by addressing these simple aspects, you're probably going to see a pretty radical shift in improvements..." - Matt Dixon
16:24 - Question 2 from Neil: “I just put my heart and soul into training for three full months. And I raced my first Half IRONMAN just a couple of weeks ago. And while I feel like I've improved my consistency, and throughout my training, I just didn't have a good day, I improved a little bit, but nowhere near as much as I would have assumed. And to be honest, right now, I'm feeling a little discouraged. I feel like quitting. Is it wrong of me to expect bigger gains in performance after such effort over so many months?"
"We want to think about this in longer-term athlete development. Because it's not only going to be a smart approach if you think about gains over the long term, and you don't think about any singular race as pass-fail. It's going to be a really empowering mindset for you." - Matt Dixon
28:25 - Question 3 from Carla: “I recently returned from my first half Ironman distance, but I found myself showing up at the start line, mentally and physically exhausted from the race week logistics, planning my equipment, mapping out my fueling and hydration, trying to get everything perfect around my meals. I just felt like a pinball throughout the days leading into the race. How do athletes remove some of the stresses and the logistics that have impacted me so much? I didn't feel like I raced to my trained potential because I was just exhausted."
"I can't overstate how much cognitive load is removed from athletes when they truly prepare for race week before they step into the venue itself before they arrive to the venue." - 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. 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 in a great sport into life. |
| 0:24.1 | Hey folks, this week's show is the Ask Me Anything show. So I'm going to begin by asking you a question. |
| 0:31.6 | What is the best tool an athlete can leverage to refine their approach around nutrition, |
| 0:36.2 | health and performance? Well, myself, I think it's Inside Tracker. We leverage it with our athletes. And let me explain why. |
| 0:43.3 | By assessing your biometrics, you provide a scientifically valid set of insights into your health, your stress levels, your nutrition profile, and much more. |
| 0:53.3 | And from these results, and combining it with |
| 0:55.1 | the recommendations from the team of scientists to Inside Tracker, you can then narrow your focus |
| 1:00.3 | on how you're eating, resting, your training, and any supplements that might be beneficial to you. |
| 1:06.2 | The best part, the approach delivers only peer-reviewed information and recommendations. And so your hard work |
| 1:12.4 | and results are also measurable by taking on some repeat assessments when it is appropriate. |
| 1:19.0 | Purple Patch athletes leverage this and so can you too. All you need to do is head toinsidracker.com |
| 1:24.2 | slash Purple Patch and use the code Purple Patch Pro 20. That's Purple Patch |
| 1:29.2 | Pro 20 and you get 20% of everything at the store. All right, Barry, let's get on with the show. |
| 1:36.8 | There's a lot of questions to get through. See you there. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 1:53.0 | And guys, you can ask me anything. |
| 1:57.8 | Really? You can. You can ask me anything. |
| 2:04.1 | All you need to do, if you're interested in getting my counsel advice, insights, is head to the podcast page at purple patchfitness.com. That's our website, |
| 2:10.9 | purple patchfitness.com. Over in the tab, in the education tab, there is a page dedicated to this show, |
| 2:17.1 | the podcast, and you can simply |
| 2:19.2 | type in a message, or even nicer, you can leave me a nice voicemail. |
| 2:24.5 | It's right there on the page. |
| 2:26.1 | The only thing I'd like you to do is please add your first name so I at least understand |
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