Episode 302: Training for Grit – Why Do So Many Executives Love IRONMAN and Triathlon?
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Throughout our coaching journey, we have shared numerous stories of success in training top-tier triathletes and C-suite executives who strive to achieve and maintain high performance in their personal and professional lives. Over two decades of coaching both groups, we have observed strong parallels in the challenges they face and the solutions to those challenges that are universally applicable.
In this week's episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, Ironman Master Coach Matt Dixon highlights those elements by focusing on executives and CEOs. He delves deeper into the reasons why many of them choose to take on the Ironman Triathlon, one of the world's most challenging sporting events. How have so many been successful at adapting to the demands of training and preparation while maintaining efficiency in their professional roles?
(11:27) Let's consider the typical executive - massive competing demands at work, the requirement for each of them to show up their very best every single day. All of them requiring capacity to respond to uncontrollable and unexpected events, market forces, the pandemic. And often doing all of this in the workplace, managing all of those competing demands, while also having a really engaged and very busy home and family life. So the obvious question to me is, you have a time-starved executive, who then decides to add in a journey to IRONMAN. The obvious question you always get is, how do they fit it all in? How is that possible?
Matt explores these questions by sharing insights he has gained from coaching executives over the years and offering perspective on how they achieve a balance between all of their competing demands. He also examines the overall appeal of Iron Man and why it draws so many athletes to the challenge year after year. Matt highlights the benefits of pursuing such a demanding goal and the positive impact it has on every aspect of an executive's life.
With compelling research to support his observations, Matt details the lessons we can all apply to our own lives, regardless of our profession or background.
(38:23) If you're listening today, and you haven't started your performance journey, I'm not saying in order for you to be successful, you need to be a CEO, you need to be an executive, you need to sign up for an Ironman, none of that. But we can draw lessons from it. Because we can join the dots and realize that a journey of sport, health, fitness, whatever that means to you, is going to impact positively how you show up in life.
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00:00 - 04:45 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
04:52 - 10:15 - Matt's News-ings
10:22 - 45:00 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 302: Training for Grit – Why Do So Many Executives Love IRONMAN and Triathlon?
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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 | If you're anything like me, you have to, well, manage a lot of competing demands in life. |
| 0:30.3 | It's just a part of the fabric of the journey that we take on. In today's show, we're going to |
| 0:35.0 | dig into a population that have to manage almost ridiculous |
| 0:37.9 | competing demands. And amongst all of them, they decide to take on the challenge of training |
| 0:43.0 | and competing in Iron Man Racing. Now, we're going to unpack all of that. But why is it that |
| 0:48.5 | high-performing executives love to take on this journey? Well, it's a challenge for one thing. |
| 0:55.5 | And I think when you listen to today, you're going to be able to draw some of the perspective and lessons into your own fabric of your |
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| 1:20.8 | energy, and of course your cognitive function. |
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| 1:27.9 | All you need to do is head to Insidracker.com slash Purple Patch. |
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| 1:43.2 | All right, let's dig in. |
| 1:44.4 | It's a fun one today. |
| 1:45.4 | Enjoy the show. |
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