Episode 312: From Burnout to Breakthrough: A Tale of Triumph and Purpose with Ben Cooper
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. This week we continue our series on Purple Patch Case Studies, where we hear first-hand experiences of time-starved athletes on their journey towards improved performance in sports and life.
This week, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon welcomes Purple Patch athlete Ben Cooper to the show. Like most Purple Patch athletes, Ben has a lot on his plate. He is a managing director at a major real estate company based in London, and he is also a devoted father of a three-year-old. Despite his busy schedule, he juggles all his responsibilities while dealing with weekly travel obligations. Ben's life is complex and time-starved, but he is determined to make it all work.
Two years ago, when Ben was first introduced to Matt and Purple Patch Fitness, he struggled. Ben was dealing with exhaustion, burnout, and mental health challenges stemming from the stress of having a child during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many people at the time, he felt lost and overwhelmed. A former rugby player, Ben had lost his fitness, gained weight, had low energy, had terrible sleep, and had no idea how to break free from the negative cycle he was stuck in. In Ben's own words, he was surviving, not thriving.
Ben discusses his challenges in jumpstarting his athletic journey and the strategies he learned through his coaching relationship with Matt to incorporate movement into his daily routine. Ben and Matt discuss the profound impact this had on shifting Ben's mindset, ultimately leading him to happiness, control, improved health, and high performance in all areas of his life.
Ben's story is full of inspiration, perspective, and valuable lessons we can all apply to our lives. We hope that Ben's story motivates you to overcome any challenges you may face and take the initial steps toward achieving high performance in your athletic journey.
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Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 05:26 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
05:33 - 11:28 - Coach's Corner
11:36 - 25:31 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 312: From Burnout to Breakthrough: A Tale of Triumph and Purpose with Ben Cooper
25:33 - 26:43 - Keynote Speaking and Leadership Program Announcement
26:45 - 43:40 - Ben Cooper Cont.
43:42 - 45:09 - 1:1 Coaching and Tri-Squad Program Announcement
45:10 - 59:17 - Ben Cooper Cont.
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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 |
| 0:08.2 | empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of |
| 0:13.2 | athletic potential you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved |
| 0:19.4 | people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:24.3 | We are going to be talking about high performance in today's show, guys. So I ask you the |
| 0:29.0 | question, does the brain drive the body? Or does the body drive the brain? Well, I think the |
| 0:36.6 | truth is they drive each other. High performance includes |
| 0:40.3 | building a platform of health, what I like to call a performance base layer. And the oil that makes |
| 0:46.5 | that machine run? Well, it is a high performance mindset, where we're placing the emphasis on our brains. |
| 0:54.1 | And guess what? We understand as performance |
| 0:57.3 | experts what the key elements are to drive your performance. And many of them, it turns out, |
| 1:03.9 | we can measure. We can actually impact through behaviour modification and shifts in exercise or |
| 1:10.3 | how we recover in sleep, nutrition, |
| 1:12.7 | hydration and even sometimes when appropriates in supplementation. |
| 1:16.9 | This is all part of the puzzle that the team inside tracker look to improve and it all wraps up |
| 1:23.6 | into performance. |
| 1:25.1 | By assessing your biometrics and combining it with the peer-reviewed research |
| 1:29.0 | and an action plan that is delivered directly from the scientists at Insightracker, |
| 1:33.5 | you can get highly specific on improving your health and daily performance. The team at |
| 1:38.8 | Inside Tracker even organise all of the factors and information into really helpful categories |
| 1:43.6 | that we understand impact all of the elements and information into really helpful categories that we understand |
| 1:45.1 | impact all of the elements of longevity and performance, whether it's your heart health, your |
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