Episode 322: Shifting Focus for Mature Athletes
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast! This week, we're exploring the topic of mature athletes. These athletes are just as ambitious and goal-driven as younger ones, but they often have a deeper and more meaningful purpose beyond winning races and setting personal records.
We received a great question from a podcast listener who has participated in triathlons for over 20 years. Despite still being ambitious, she now has three kids and is seeking advice on how to approach the sport from a new perspective and adjust her training. This is a common challenge for many athletes, not just in triathlon.
We've dedicated a whole show to addressing this question and hopefully, we provide helpful guidance for any mature athlete looking to optimize their mindset, strategy, and training for performance gains. The episode is divided into three parts. The first part discusses "perspective" and building a new relationship with sports. It provides context for understanding how to adjust your approach to sports and how it may differ from your younger and more competitive years.
Part two delves into training practices. What may have worked for you in your 20s as an athlete may not be as helpful for you now. We outline the key elements of training that mature athletes should focus on to achieve the best return on investment.
In part three, we discuss habits all athletes should adopt to support training, with a special emphasis on habits of amplified importance for mature athletes seeking to stay healthy and competitive for years to come.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 03:13 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:14 - 07:44 - Coach’s Corner
07:45 - 21:49 - The Meat & Potatoes - Part 1- Perspective
21:51 - 22:58 - Purple Patch Promo 1
23:01 - 35:11 - PART 2 - Training
35:12 - 36:19 - Purple Patch Promo 2
36:21 - 46:44 - PART 3 - Habits
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm no spring chicken. In fact, you might even call me a mature athlete. And yet, I'm still |
| 0:30.5 | trying to keep up with my younger self. And perhaps more importantly, I've got a quest to set |
| 0:35.8 | myself up for the best quality of life that I can |
| 0:38.4 | possibly have for the decades in front of me. One of the tools that I leveraged to try and help |
| 0:44.2 | me filter out the noise and distractions and instead place my emphasis on the boulders, the things |
| 0:50.0 | that are going to really yield performance gains for me is InsideTracker. |
| 0:57.2 | By taking a look inside, assessing my barometrics, |
| 0:59.9 | and then combining it with the advice and recommendations from the team of scientists at Inside Tracker, |
| 1:02.5 | I get everything that I want. |
| 1:04.7 | The right things to prioritize on and quantifiable results |
| 1:08.2 | to ensure that I stay on track. |
| 1:10.4 | And guess what? |
| 1:11.2 | You can leverage it too. |
| 1:12.4 | All you need to do is head toinsidracker.com slash purple patch. |
| 1:16.2 | Use the code Purple Patch Pro 20. |
| 1:18.5 | You're going to get a hefty discount off everything at the store. |
| 1:21.5 | We use it across the Purple Patch ecosystem, |
| 1:24.0 | but you don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete to take advantage. |
| 1:27.2 | It's a wonderful tool. It's a wonderful |
| 1:27.8 | tool. It's a great system. It works for everybody who is seeking to improve across all |
| 1:33.5 | arenas in life. All right, we are talking about mature athletes today, so enjoy the show. |
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