Episode 335: Breaking The Injury Cycle

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast!

Our mission is to empower individuals to reach their athletic and full potential. Today, we’ll discuss injuries— a common frustration among endurance athletes—and how to reduce your injury risk as you prepare for the upcoming season during the off-season.

While this time can feel like downtime, it’s actually a crucial opportunity to build resilience and prioritize health. Injury prevention is a key factor for success, as avoiding risks leads to the consistency needed for high performance.

What you do in the coming weeks will lower your chances of setbacks without requiring excessive effort; approach it smartly and pragmatically. IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon outlines four simple strategies to implement.

This episode features the story of Sarah Piampiano, a professional triathlete who overcame a major injury by focusing on sleep, nutrition, stress management, strength training, and tissue resilience. Dixon outlines four key areas for injury prevention: developing healthy habits like sleep and nutrition, incorporating strength training, building tissue resilience through consistent, low-intensity running, and adopting a holistic approach that combines these elements. He stresses the importance of consistency and patience in building a resilient body to prevent future injuries.

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Episode Timestamps:

00:00-2:27 Episode Introduction

2:27-7:41 Meet and Potatoes–Sarah Piampiano Background

10:05-11:55 Habits: Work with Fuelin, Sleep, Hydration

10:57: How Sarah approached training

15:33-25:58 Habit Development

25:58-31:24 Strength Training

31:24 Tissue Resilience

35:33 Putting it all Together

37:15 Common Pitfalls to Avoid

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:04.2	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:10.0	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.5	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people a great sport into life.
0:33.6	And welcome back to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon.
0:37.0	And today we talk about those things. Injuries. The things that unravel so many great
0:43.3	plans. Frustration of every endurance athlete. And we are tackling the topic so that you can
0:49.9	reduce your injury risk in the upcoming season. That's the year ahead, but by taking action now
0:56.6	in what for most of us is, the offseason. Now, as you've learned over the course of quite a few of the
1:03.3	last few shows over the last month or so, off season is often seen as a time of downtime, but the
1:08.5	truth is it is an opportunity. It is where you lay the foundation
1:12.6	to build resilience and of course stay healthy for the long haul. And we want to dig in and shine
1:18.0	the light on this today. I've gone through the value of offseason many times, but I want to
1:25.2	really focus on injury prevention because I think that this is the
1:29.6	secret weapon that every successful athlete actually nails down so that they can build the
1:35.5	absolutely magic word of high performance, which is consistency. It's not about avoiding risk entirely
1:41.7	because sport already has some inherent risk in it, but it is about
1:46.1	smart preparation. And so what you do now over the course of the coming weeks and months is going to
1:51.8	lower your risk for secbacks later. And the good thing is it doesn't require that much effort.
1:57.0	You just need to be smart, pragmatic and take the approach. And I've broken it down into four
2:01.4	very simple categories. If you do these four things today, and then you have a much better
2:07.2	opportunity. And it doesn't always take catastrophe to actually provide the opportunity. But I am
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