Episode 272: 3 Key Strategies To Help Optimize Your Performance for the Rest of the Year
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
At the beginning of the year, we took some time to reflect, plan for the future and set Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs). Now, we have reached the halfway point of the year.
Most of you hit the ground running with ambitions and lofty goals, but how did they pan out? Are you nailing your goals? Are you thriving in your performance journey? Is it fulfilling? Where can you improve or shift your approach?
It is essential to come up for air midway through the season and execute some big-picture thinking about the work you have been putting in, the purpose of it, and where you want it to take you.
On this week’s episode of The Purple Patch Podcast, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon presents a framework to help you evaluate your progress and performance over the past six months to set yourself up for a strong finish to the year.
Matt lays out a process for identifying the areas within your control where you have excelled, the lessons you have learned, and opportunities for improvement, to help you develop a plan of action to enhance future performance.
Matt’s framework centers on three questions that all athletes should consider asking themselves.
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Do you only have a destination or do you have a path?
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Is your current approach or program integrated into life?
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Am I getting athletically smarter?
This episode is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the purpose of your athletic journey and strip down the elements of your process to determine what works, what doesn't, and what you plan to do about it.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 04:34 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
04:41 - 06:42 - Matt's News-ings
06:50 - 35:45 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 272: 3 Key Strategies To Help Optimize Your Performance for the Rest of the Year
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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 | Well, suddenly we arrive, ladies and gentlemen. We are six months into the year. And last week, |
| 0:30.6 | I discussed our partnership with Inside Tracker and how it is built on our belief that no matter what your goals are, |
| 0:37.0 | your health in sport and life is |
| 0:38.7 | always built on a platform of health. Where Inside Tracker helps you refine your focus and get really |
| 0:45.0 | specific, it also delivers measurable results, boosting the validation, a sense of accountability |
| 0:50.4 | and even a little bit of a tap on the back and rewards for a job well done. |
| 0:55.9 | When you leverage inside tracker, you lean into the expertise and scientists to provide advice |
| 1:01.2 | around all aspects of your performance approach and everything is backed up by peer-reviewed |
| 1:06.3 | research. That's important. Now, today's show is all about halfway, halfway through the year, halfway through the season. And so therefore, this is a super time for you to pause and reflect. But also, it's a great time to integrate inside tracker because it enables you at this time where we look forward to the second half of the year to set the path forward and ensure that |
| 1:28.7 | you are honing in and getting specific around your performance habits. Why don't you? Get specific, |
| 1:34.7 | get results. All you need to do is head to insidetracker.com slash purple patch and use the code |
| 1:40.7 | Purple Patch Pro 20. That's Purple Patch Pro 20 for 20% of everything at the store. |
| 1:47.3 | Now, you don't need to be a Purple Patch Coast athlete to leverage it, but I will say that Purple Patch |
| 1:53.1 | or otherwise, we are always here for support. Feel free to ping us at info at purplepatchfinish.com |
| 1:58.3 | if you need any council or advice on leveraging inside tracker. |
| 2:01.9 | We want to make sure that your journey and the utilization of the service is as successful as |
| 2:07.3 | possible. Okay now, I'm going to come out of the weeds today. A little bit of tea shape. We're coming |
| 2:12.4 | up to the tea at the top of the bar because we are going to do some big picture thinking, |
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