That Traathlon Show, Episode 13

Hey, what's up everybody, welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

As always, I'm your host Michael. And on today's episode, as I alluded to several times on last episode, the Q&A session in episode 12, we have Matt Dixon on as our interview guest,

and he is somebody who has a lot to teach all of you age groupers out there that are trying to combine busy, busy schedules, families, careers and other commitments with your often very high triathlon goals.

So that is a struggle and we had a question on last week's episode about that specific struggle.

And today we dive into that in great detail with Matt.

So I'm excited about that.

First, a short introduction to Matt.

He is the founder of Purple Patch Fitness.

He is a best-selling offer of the well-built triathlete, which is an excellent book,

which I highly recommend that you go to Amazon and get right after this interview.

He coaches pro athletes like world champion from last year, 2016, at the 70.3 distance

Tim Reed and other pros and stars like Jesse Thomas, Serapin Piano and lots of other ones, as well as age groupers,

some of which have achieved great success at age group level, like winning world championships, and so on.

Matt's athletic background is as an elite swimmer and professional triathlete,

and his educational background is in exercise physiology

so he definitely has the know-how and the expertise to be a high-level elite coach and we go into

some of the very interesting stuff from his professional background how he burnt the candle at both ends in his own athletic

career and learned invaluable lessons that have shaped his coaching philosophy in this interview.

After that, we get into the real meat and potatoes of this episode, which is Matt's Pillars of

Performance for Triathlon, which is endurance training,

but also nutrition, recovery, and strength and conditioning. Importantly, in no particular order,

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