Episode 300: So You Want to Qualify for the IRONMAN World Championships - Matt’s 10 Essential Tips
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Over the last two decades, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon has coached athletes of all levels, from world-class to beginners. One of the most common aspirations he hears from athletes is the desire to compete at the Ironman World Championship. However, what does it take to qualify for this prestigious event? Is there a secret to success?
As it happens, Purple Patch Fitness has significant knowledge and experience with the Ironman World Championships. We have achieved over 15 top-10 finishes at the championship and have helped nearly 1500 Purple Patch athletes qualify for the event. Some of these athletes have even won amateur and age group titles. As a result, we have a wealth of experience and expertise when it comes to the Ironman World Championship.
In this week’s episode of the Purple Patch Podcast Matt wants to help set you up for success in your journey toward qualifying for the Ironman World Championships. Drawing from over two decades of coaching experience, Matt distills his lessons into ten essential tips to help you qualify for the Ironman World Championships.
There is no guarantee of success in sports, but following these tips can significantly increase your chances of achieving it. It's not just about the workouts or the structure of your training weeks. Instead, it's about adopting key elements that are always a part of a successful athlete's journey, regardless of their event or end goal.
We encourage you to try out these tips and see where they take you on your journey towards the Ironman World Championships.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 03:58 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:59 - 7:05 - Word of the Week
07:12 - 40:27 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 300: So You Want to Qualify for the IRONMAN World Championships - Matt’s 10 Essential Tips
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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 | I think you look terrific, at least on the outside. But what's going on on the outside is not |
| 0:30.6 | really what drives your personal performance. No matter what arena you're chasing better |
| 0:35.8 | improvements in life, it's really important about what's going on inside. |
| 0:40.3 | It's very difficult to really understand what's going on with your physiology, |
| 0:44.3 | especially across all of the aspects that drive our personal performance. |
| 0:49.3 | Well, a tool that we leverage at Purple Patch is Inside Tracker, |
| 0:52.3 | because by assessing your biometrics |
| 0:55.0 | and combining it with the advice and expertise from the team of scientists and experts at Inside Tracker, |
| 1:00.4 | we get some really precise focus areas to filter out the stuff that will become distractions |
| 1:06.5 | and instead dial in the habits and the interventions that are going to help you perform. |
| 1:11.8 | Across all aspects of longevity and performance, things like your cognitive health, your strengths, |
| 1:18.5 | inflammation, heart health, everything that builds up to you becoming a high performing machine, |
| 1:24.1 | inside tracker assesses it and gives you an action plan with simple actions that you can take so that you can go on and improve. |
| 1:32.3 | And it's very, very simple. All you need to do is head to insidetracker.com slash purple patch and use this special code. |
| 1:39.3 | Purple Patch Pro 20. That's Purple Patch Pro 20. It gives you 20% of everything at the store. |
| 1:46.6 | I leverage it with my athletes and you can too. You don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete, |
| 1:51.1 | but what you do need to care about is improvement over the course of 2024. And that's |
| 1:56.2 | what we're here to help you with. All right, enjoy the show. |
| 2:08.6 | Thank you. to help you with. All right, enjoy the show. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 2:12.6 | And today I am recording on the shores of the waters that host the swim at the Hawaii Ironman World |
| 2:19.4 | Championship. You might hear some birds chirping, maybe a little bit of the crashing waves. It's some |
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