Episode 294: Performance Base Layer Series - Part 4: Pillars of Performance Applied (Recovery)
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the 5-part Performance Base Layer Series on the Purple Patch Podcast. This series emphasizes the importance of building a foundation for high performance. Your Performance baselayer consists of positive habits that promote good physical and mental health and foster physiological readiness. The Purple Patch pillars of performance, endurance, strength, nutrition, and recovery are the core elements of the performance base layer.
In this series, every episode revolves around one of the four pillars of performance. Endurance and movement, strength and resistance training, and proper nutrition have already been covered. Now, let's shift our focus to the fourth pillar: recovery.
We will discuss this pillar from two different perspectives. The first perspective is "life performance," which is aimed at anyone who wants to improve their longevity, performance, or overall functioning in daily life. The second perspective is focused on endurance athletes and highlights the specific needs of competitive sports.
A robust recovery plan is essential for achieving high performance in any arena. However, many people fail to incorporate proper recovery techniques, leading to injury or suboptimal performance. In this episode, Ironman Master Coach Matt Dixon emphasizes crucial factors and tactics to assist in creating a practical recovery plan and enhance the outcomes of your endeavors in every facet of your performance.
Matt explains the different components of recovery and the physiological and performance advantages they offer. He also addresses common misunderstandings and concerns about these components and delves into the errors made when implementing them without proper understanding.
Matt also covers techniques and products aimed at amplifying recovery. He discusses how to use them properly to avoid injury. Matt provides a deeper understanding of incorporating sleep and recovery into your training program to refresh, revitalize, and ultimately enhance your performance in sport and life.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 03:25 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:32 - 8:51 - Matt's News-ings
8:58 - 54:15 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 294: Performance Base Layer Series - Part 4: Pillars of Performance Applied (Recovery)
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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. |
| 0:24.3 | Folks, our educational series right now is called performance base layer. That is you building |
| 0:29.9 | your base layer of great health so that you can show up in any arena that is important to you. |
| 0:37.0 | But one of the tools that is important to you. |
| 0:37.7 | But one of the tools that we use to help amplify the results of that journey, to enable |
| 0:42.7 | you to get specific, to help you get measurable results for all of the effort that you put |
| 0:48.0 | in across your training, your habits and more is inside tracker. |
| 0:53.7 | We leverage it a purple patch so that we can get really precise with the areas that each athlete wants to focus on. |
| 1:00.0 | And you can leverage the same insights as well. |
| 1:03.0 | By taking a look inside and measuring biometrics and then combining it with the advice across all of the aspects of longevity and performance that are appropriate, |
| 1:12.6 | you can gain insights and recommendations to leverage your performance journey. |
| 1:18.4 | It's all peer-reviewed and it all comes on a lovely dashboard that's very, very simple to follow |
| 1:23.9 | to put your action pan in place. |
| 1:26.1 | All you need to do is head to |
| 1:27.6 | insidetracker.com slash purple patch. That's inside tracker.com slash purple patch. And use |
| 1:33.6 | a sneaky code, Purple Patch Pro 20. You get 20% of everything at the store. All right, |
| 1:39.5 | today we are talking about my favorite. Yes, it is Recovery, the fourth in our series on the Performance Bass Layer. |
| 1:46.9 | Enjoy the show. |
| 1:56.3 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 2:01.3 | And it is, ladies and gentlemen, the fourth pillar today. |
| 2:05.2 | You know, I love all my children. |
| 2:08.1 | But I have to say this one is my favourite. |
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