Episode 346: Beyond the Finish Line: Winning as a Triathlete in 2025 - Part 3

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

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In Part 3 of Beyond the Finish Line: Winning as a Triathlete in 2025, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon from Purple Patch Fitness discusses his high-performance coaching approach, emphasizing a team-based methodology that has helped over 1,500 athletes qualify for world championships. Their coaching includes remote sessions with real-time feedback and ongoing education. Dixon outlines five principles for success: focusing on daily actions rather than outcomes, keeping things simple, responding proactively to challenges, reflecting regularly, and building a supportive team. He uses Stuart, an athlete with ambitious goals, as a case study to illustrate these principles, highlighting Stuart's resilience and adaptability in the face of life's challenges, eventually placing at a podium in triathlon.

Apply the five principles discussed (being results-driven but process-focused, keeping things simple, responding vs reacting, practicing reflection, and building a support team) to your own athletic journey in 2025. Matt Dixon explains that great success often comes from what is removed rather than added, emphasizing the importance of simplicity. Matt Dixon discusses the importance of responding proactively to challenges rather than reacting impulsively. He also reviews the cycle of the Purple Patch Method.

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0:00.0	Just before we get going with the show, I can proudly say that Purple Patch is not like most other
0:05.4	coaching companies. Our focus is high performance. But what does that mean? Well, what it means is that
0:11.3	you will achieve your sporting goals. But at the same time, you're going to improve your health
0:15.5	and show up in all other aspects of your life better. You see, we're deadly serious about performance
0:20.6	while we like to have a
0:21.5	lot of fun doing it. And part of our mission is to empower you to thrive. So how do we do this?
0:27.5	Well, first we have a proven methodology, one that stood the test of time, is driven some of the
0:32.0	world's best professional endurance athletes to Iron Man titles and world championships, as well as countless first
0:38.4	time finishers for amateurs across Ironman and half Iron Man events. We've qualified more than
0:43.3	1,500 athletes to world championship events over our time. We take a team approach to coaching
0:49.1	to ensure that each athlete, including you, has access to not just myself, but also a group of experts and
0:56.0	coaches that can drive and fuel your performance. We amplify remote coaching via real coaching.
1:02.5	Yes, that's via video. So no matter where you live, you can gain expertise and real-time
1:08.8	feedback. Those sessions are all on-demand as well as live, so you can
1:13.0	get two-way video with myself and the other Purple Patch coaches. And we have huge ongoing
1:18.2	education and practical guidance to ensure that you become smarter, not just faster across all
1:23.7	aspects of sport. Ultimately, finally, we have one of the largest and most engaged
1:29.0	and supportive communities to ensure that you get great accountability and a healthy dose of fun
1:34.2	along the journey. In other words, why are we not doing this? Our coaching is special. And so reach out
1:40.2	to learn more. Either one-to-one coaching options or our hugely popular tri-squad program.
1:46.2	It is human coaching at your best. If you want to have a complimentary consultation to learn more,
1:51.1	ping us info at purple patchfulness.com. All right, we look forward to welcoming you to the team,
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