Episode 344: Beyond the Finish Line: Winning as a Triathlete in 2025 - Part 1
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon introduces a four-part series on winning at triathlon in 2025, emphasizing personalized performance improvement. He outlines Purple Patch's coaching offerings, including individual coaching and the tri squad program. Dixon shares a case study of an athlete named Sam, detailing her goals, strengths, and weaknesses, and the three-pronged approach to her training: a swim project, a bike booster project, and a nutrition project. Sam's success in 2024 included improved swimming, stronger cycling, and faster running. Dixon encourages listeners to adopt an optimization mindset, focus on strengths, address weaknesses, and maintain supportive habits for sustainable high performance.
He emphasizes the importance of defining what "winning" means for each listener. Using Sam’s example, Dixon emphasizes the importance of understanding the broader context of an athlete's life, including family, work, and social connections. He explains the practical steps taken to implement these projects, including recruiting a buddy for swimming and incorporating group rides for bike training. Matt highlights the importance of maintaining social connections and community support during the training process. He encourages listeners to reflect on their current state, identify strengths and weaknesses, and commit to clear, actionable goals.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:10.4 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:14.4 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:33.7 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. And today we cook off the new year and we kick off our four-part series, |
| 0:39.1 | winning at Triathlon 2025. Now winning, that word in itself, it means a little bit of a different |
| 0:45.7 | thing to each of us. So what I encourage you to do is build your own relationship with that word. |
| 0:51.4 | What does winning mean for you? Whatever it is, this educational series is going to be |
| 0:57.0 | applicable for you to take your performance level up and keep it up there for the course of this |
| 1:03.4 | whole year. This is a three-part progressive series of education. Now, we've already had the kickoff. |
| 1:09.7 | We did a little bit of a preview |
| 1:10.9 | January 2nd. And in that preview, I went through our coaching model and established our mindset |
| 1:16.5 | so that you arrived today equipped to tackle this journey. I'm going to come back to that |
| 1:21.2 | preview in a few moments when we dig into the meat and potatoes. But before we dive into |
| 1:26.3 | educational content, I do want to mention just a couple |
| 1:29.5 | of ways in which we can help you on the long-term arc of your journey beyond this education. |
| 1:35.6 | Of course, we have our Purple Patch individual coaching where you work directly with a coach. |
| 1:40.5 | That is a proven, very powerful program. We've had a bunch of great results out of that. We also have our most popular programming, which is our tri-squat. That's a little bit more of an autonomous program when you don't have an individual relationship with the coach, but instead you lean into the entire Purple Patch coaching team to ensure that your journey is highly successful. |
| 2:03.0 | We still train you for your specific races. |
| 2:05.7 | It brings you all the way to race day and recovery following. |
| 2:08.9 | You go on a journey as a part of a team while you've got your own tailored program. |
| 2:14.1 | But you're leaning into the expertise of the entire Purple Patch coaching team as you |
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