Episode 284: Offseason - Foundation, Skills, and Technique (Part 2 - Key Principles and Approaches)

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We continue our three-part series on the off-season, in which we frame the approach to building a foundation of performance, developing skills, and improving technique.

In part 2 of our series, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon discusses his reimagined approach to the off-season and lays out a blueprint for leveraging the months between Q4 and Q1 in a smart and balanced way.

Matt shares key principles and approaches you can leverage this off-season to improve your swim stroke, terrain management on the bike, balance on the run, and more while emerging faster, stronger, and injury-free.

He lays out the various methods and resources that form the basis of Purple Patch programming, coaching, community, and education, with the goal of helping athletes achieve their best year of racing while integrating sport into their busy lives.

The challenge, of course, is that really focusing on technique and skill acquisition is almost impossible when you're equally training hard, you're in that environment. It's a hard session. You don't have the willpower, focus, and attention to really think about your posture, your form, your skill acquisition, etc. And it becomes even tougher when you've got a looming deadline for a race. When that comes up, all bets are off. All you have hope for is to retain what is already habitual. And that's why these coming months are your golden platform of opportunity. Because you have no deadlines. You have much lower stress training demands, and therefore you have the capacity to focus on your HOW.

Although Matt discusses the approach from a triathlete's perspective (swim, bike, run, strength, and habits), the principles and techniques he covers apply to all endurance athletes and fitness enthusiasts.

Whether striving to reach the podium and finish line or simply aiming to enhance how you perform at work and in life, the principles Matt discusses today apply to anyone seeking to improve their performance.

Episode Timestamps

00:00 - 07:55 - Welcome and Episode Introduction

08:02 - 09:36 - Matt's News-ings

09:51 - 13:30 - Word of the Week

13:37 - 01:01:11 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 284: Offseason - Foundation, Skills, and Technique (Part 2 - Key Principles and Approaches)

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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.
0:22.6	Folks, today's show is about off-season and that applies to not just folks that are
0:28.6	chasing podiums but also anyone that's looking to improve their performance and how they show up in life.
0:34.6	Now this is the time of the year where we do a lot of foundational work,
0:38.2	a lot of skills development.
0:39.2	We're going to talk about that in today's show.
0:41.5	But one of the elements that's equally important
0:43.6	is some planning and some baseline assessments.
0:46.9	And a key tool that we use at Purple Patch is Inside Tracker.
0:50.3	Because by assessing your biometrics
0:52.5	and getting a landscape on your current platform of health,
0:56.0	we can leverage the expertise and strategies outlined by the team of scientists inside tracker
1:01.0	to get really precise focus on the elements that you need to work on to try and improve your performance-related components.
1:09.0	This gives you precision and it also provides measurable results.
1:13.1	Our athletes use it at Purple Patch, but you don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete to get
1:16.9	involved. All you need to do is head toinsidracker.com slash Purple Patch. That's
1:21.7	inside tracker.com slash Purple Patch. And we have a sneaky code for you, Purple Patch Pro 20. That's Purple Patch Pro
1:29.1	2.0. You get 20% of everything at the store. All right, let's talk about offseason. Part 2. Enjoy the show.
1:40.5	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon.
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