Episode 328: Reflecting on the Year - A Look Back at Off-Season
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
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As we air this show, most Purple Patch athletes are busy preparing for a variety of late-season races. We have the Ironman World Championships in Nice for the women, the Ironman World Championships in Kona for the men, the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in New Zealand, and the T100 series ramping up with the championship approaching for the pros. Additionally, we have the New York Marathon, the Santa Cruz Half Ironman, and a series of Ultra Trail runs.
Despite these big looming events, we want to take a moment to encourage high performers to pause, step back, and reflect. In this week’s episode, we take a look back at the past year to see the big picture of how we made it to this point.
Almost a year ago, we emphasized the critical role of Off-Season in achieving significant performance gains in the year ahead. This week we want to report on the impact of this approach on Purple Patch athletes.
First, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon revisits the key goals of Off-Season and focuses on what a successful off-season looks like. Matt then shares his observations and insights from this past season and both qualitative and quantitative data to highlight the effects of Off-Season. He then shares feedback from Purple Patch athletes on how Off-Season affected their performance and lives.
In this episode, Matt discusses the mindset and commitment required to excel in your Off-Season. Whether you are preparing for upcoming events or gearing up to tackle a personal challenge in 2025, this show is crucial for you to refocus and recalibrate your performance, regardless of your goals.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 06:39 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
06:46 - 23:45 - The Meat and Potatoes: Part 1 - Framing Your Off-Season?
23:49 - 33:36 - Part 2 - Reflecting on the impact of Off-Season
33:37 - 44:17 - Part 3 - From the Athletes Themselves
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:12.0 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:16.0 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:32.3 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. And today, we're going to look back a little bit. |
| 0:40.3 | As I record this show, the vast majority of Purple Patch athletes are busy preparing for a host of late season races. |
| 0:47.7 | In fact, some might say, what are they saying in America? |
| 0:51.1 | It's prime time. |
| 0:52.9 | We have the Iron Man World Championships in Nice for the Women. We have the Iron Man World Championships in Nice for the |
| 0:55.7 | women. We have the Iron Man World Championships in Kona for the men. We've got the Iron Man |
| 1:00.0 | 70.3 World Championships in New Zealand. We've also got the T-100 series ramping up with the |
| 1:06.4 | championship looming for the pros. We've got the New York Marathon in just a couple of months' time, |
| 1:11.7 | more than 60 athletes getting together for the Santa Cruz half-Irman in just a few days' time |
| 1:18.1 | and a series of ultra trail runs. |
| 1:21.0 | Even my jaunt for the 50K is coming up very, very soon. |
| 1:25.4 | And a bunch of other races besides all the big ones. It is the |
| 1:29.9 | vortex of race season. And yet today, I want to do what I suggest all high performers do, |
| 1:37.8 | and that's pulls, come out of the weeds, and reflect a little bit. We are going to cast our minds back almost 12 months ago when I, |
| 1:47.7 | sitting at this desk, here in this room, discussed off-season. I spent a lot of time talking about |
| 1:54.4 | the critical role that off-season could have, the positive impact for any person who was seeking a huge performance gain in their year |
| 2:03.6 | ahead. Today, what I want to do is report on that approach. How did it impact purple patch athletes? |
| 2:11.4 | What I've done is I've combined a series of qualitative and quantitative data. We're going to get to dig in and highlight the |
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