REBROADCAST: Shifting Focus for Mature Athletes
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast! This week, we're revisiting one of the most insightful interviews we've done here on the Purple Patch Podcast. In this episode, 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 approaching the sport from a new perspective and adjusting 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.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is for the AARP Anacus, as we love to call them. |
| 0:05.4 | It's all around performance for the mature athlete. |
| 0:09.1 | But we don't just coach folks that are mature, of course. |
| 0:12.8 | If you have a desire to improve to uplevel and then purple patches for you. |
| 0:18.5 | And as you listen to today's show and you draw the lessons from it, |
| 0:21.2 | if you're inspired to continue the conversation, if you want to understand anything around |
| 0:25.7 | Purple Patch program, whether it's Tri-Squod, whether it's our Run Squad program and you're |
| 0:30.3 | preparing for a marathon, or if you want to get deeply engaged with a one-to-one coaching |
| 0:34.3 | relationship, feel free to reach out. We offer complementary consultations to help us understand whether we're a good fit for you, |
| 0:42.0 | you're a good fit for us. |
| 0:43.6 | We'll understand your situation as we'll provide advice. |
| 0:46.1 | The worst that can happen is you're going to get a whole bunch of recommendations and tips |
| 0:50.2 | of how to amplify your performance journey. |
| 0:52.3 | Or, of course, the best that can happen is we end up |
| 0:55.4 | partnering and we take your performance to a whole new level while also amplifying your life. |
| 1:00.8 | Feel free to reach out to us. Info at purplepatchfitness.com will set up a complementary needs assessment. |
| 1:07.1 | All right, enjoy the show. I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 1:12.4 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 1:18.3 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 1:22.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 1:37.0 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. And today, |
| 1:42.7 | we're doing something a little different. We're actually |
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