Purple Patch Podcast

Should you toughen up and push through your training, or should you be smart and back off? Matt explores the concept of fatigue in today's podcast. Fatigue is not a negative word. In fact, it's a part of growth and you should lean into it. It is earned from hard work and the adaptions can be positive, but you must make smart decisions in managing your fatigue.  Context is everything when you're ta...

This episode is a triathlon strategist's dream come true! Matt opens the lid on the coaching mindset as he dissects the planning and performance journey of Jesse Thomas's successful podium finish at the recent Challenge Roth. When great performances happen, especially with elite and professional athletes, most people assume it's simply a result of some herculean amount of training that always had...

Matt is on vacation, so he put together a "Best of" Series from the initial month of the podcast. It's a taste of the key highlights of lessons and takeaways from episodes so far this year. CycleOps, PowerTap, and Purple Patch have teamed up to help you get crackin' on your training! Visit purplepatchfitness.com/getcracking and register to win one of three great prizes that include: a pair of Powe...

Register to win a 3-Month Subscription to Linden & True Coffee! Visit  purplepatchfitness.com/coffee  for the details. On April 16th, 2018, Des Linden became the first United States female to win the famed Boston Marathon in 33 years. While she admits that she often plays the role of "underdog," this year was different. She went from "underdog" to champion in a race that brought with it epic wind,...

Excellence doesn't often come without fear and doubt. Today, Matt dives into the internal struggle, the journey of achieving wonderful results, but focusing in on areas that few are honestly willing to discuss. Laura Siddall is a professional triathlete showing the greatest vulnerability in her expressing fears, confidence, and challenges she has faced and managed on her path to world-class perfor...

Go to purplepatchfitness.com/transgenderathlete to receive more resources and information on Chris Mosier.   Matt Dixon is back with another moving and inspiring feature with a Purple Patch athlete. In 2015, Chris Mosier became the first openly transgender man to make the Men's US National Team and, in 2016, he became the first trans athlete to compete in a World Championship. He is a 5-Time Membe...

How do you define talent? Is it a combination of physical traits that allows an advantage over competitors? Is it God-given innate talent and gifts given to the rare few that allow potential to meet performance? Are people just born with talent, while the rest of us have no hope? Matt dissects this idea of "talent" in today's episode and what he has learned by working with some of the best enduran...

Matt takes a deep dive today with Erin Taylor, founder and head coach of Athletes for Yoga. Taylor is an international leader in yoga for athletes, and architect of the only yoga for athletes platform on-line. She's also an author of two book: Work In and Hit Reset . Integrating Yoga into endurance sports goes well-beyond simply attending a weekly 60-minute yoga class or 90-minute hot yoga session...

What do you do when you've lost everything? How do you start to rebuild? This conversation with new Purple Patch athlete, Lars Tandrup, is a story about performance and emerging from tragedy. It's not about race performance, per se, but a lesson of how stress and adversity can be a catalyst for human growth, development and adaptation. Last year, Lars and his wife lost everything in the wildfires...

Matt introduces us to Purple Patch athlete, Jordan Ouida. Ouida, based in Manhattan, is a husband, father, financial executive, marathoner and triathlete.   And, as you'll hear in this episode, has successfully integrated sport into life with a little "out-of-the-box" thinking. Matt explores Jordan's evolution in training and how he has managed to navigate and excel in his multisport career. In fa...

For more tips, Download our FREE Cheat Sheet on Maximizing Your Daily Energy Levels  Here's the Question of the Week: Are you surviving or thriving?  You want to successfully integrate sport into life so that, yes, you improve and achieve your goals, but you want that, in turn, to lift your health, your ability to perform in the workplace, and, of course, bring the best version of yourself to your...

To unlock and view the Free Purple Patch strength resources, visit,  https://purplepatchfitness.com/freeresources    In previous episodes, Matt has discussed Endurance Planning, Nutrition and Recovery. Today, he dives deep into the Fourth Pillar of Performance: Functional Strength and its role  within the scope of endurance activity. He tells the story of Purple Patch athlete, Jenny, a 46-year-old...

In Part 1 the Jesse Thomas story with Matt Dixon, Jesse and Matt reminisced about Jesse's surprising and humorous entrance into the world of professional triathlon racing with his unsuspecting win at the legendary Wildflower Triathlon . Since then, he's gone on to win six Wildflower titles, two Ironmans and countless 70.3s, performing at the top level for practically the last decade.  Today, Jesse...

Click Here to Register for the Jesse Thomas Wildflower Giveaway!   In 2011, Jesse Thomas was a new pro triathlete. He was so new, in fact, that when he decided to race the Wildflower Triathlon at the last minute that year, there were no real pro spots left, so he ended up with bib number 87, the first number behind the female pro bibs. Picture this: He was on a borrowed bike and, fellow pro triath...

Click Here for Peak Performance Cheat Sheets!   Brad Stulberg has been in the spotlight a lot recently. Last Fall, his book, "Peak Performance," written with co-Author, Steve Magness, captivated the attention of many an endurance athlete. I mean, who wouldn't be captivated with a subtitle like, "Elevate your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success?" Most recently, however,...

This episode wraps up our in-depth discussion of both Nutrition and Fueling. If you missed previous episodes on this important Pillar of Performance, we encourage you to go back and listen to Episodes 11 and 12 on Nutrition and Episode 14 on Hydration. Today, we welcome back Purple Patch Fitness Resident Nutritionist, Kyla Channell, for a deep, granular and specific look at hydration, both in perf...

In 2000, at the age of 40, Marina Gelman lost her college-aged daughter in a tragic car accident. At the time, Gelman was a new fitness enthusiast and avid runner. Overcome by grief after the accident, however, she holed herself up for almost two years and focused only on work to numb the pain. Unfortunately, during this time, she abandoned her fitness goals, started smoking again after a long hia...

Matt covers the critical topic of hydration through two lenses. The principles and key actions around hydration in   t raining and racing The role of hydration in your daily life , including recovery from training, tissue health, mental alertness, and energy management In addition to discussing the importance of hydration in these two key areas, Matt then lays out simple habits that you can integr...

What happens when two of endurance sports greatest thinkers go toe to toe on all aspects of performance? You get an educating and insightful "Inside the Coaches Studio" episode from Matt Dixon along with author and coach, Steve Magness, co-author of the book, Peak Performance. This conversation definitely raises the collective process of coaching and you'll hear their thoughts and opinions on many...

The kitchen doors swing wide open and your burning nutrition and fueling nutrition questions get answered in this episode with Purple Patch resident Endurance Sports Nutritionist, Kyla Channell. A graduate of U.C. Davis, Kyla Channell works with athletes of all levels at both Purple Patch and her own company, Nutritional Revolution . In addition to helping athletes fuel and hydrate properly for th...

Underneath the Purple Patch Pillar of Nutrition , there are two main components: Fueling - This encompasses the calories you consume during a workout and immediately following Nutrition - This includes your daily eating habits outside of training including breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. In this episode packed with meaningful and easy-to-implement guidelines, Matt goes into depth on both fuel...

Athletes often think of recovery as a weakness or liability to their training. We see the hours that the competition appears to be logging and feel compelled to match or even beat it. Unfortunately, our barometer of success is often a simple accumulation of training hours without regard to the quality of those hours or what we do in between. If we do give a thought to recovery, it's usually in the...

Ed Baker has most certainly lived an accomplished and fulfilling life. He was captain of his cross country team at Harvard and then went on to Stanford School of Business . While there, he trained and ran in the Olympic Marathon Trials in 2007. Baker's business credentials are also rather impressive, serving as Head of International Growth at Facebook and then VP of Growth and Product at Uber unti...

"Sleep isn't sexy, but it is a performance enhancer, and the wise leverage it to their advantage." - Dr. Chris Winter, MD Dubbed " The Sleep Whisperer" by Arianna Huffington , Dr. Chris Winter, MD, is the medical director of the Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine in Virginia and also one of the country's leading sleep researchers. When he is not seeing patients in his private clinic, he...

Matt dives deep with Carmel Galvin, CHRO of Glassdoor , about integrating high performance, training, and community into a time-starved life.  In Part One of this conversation, Matt and Carmel talk about the evolving work culture of today's generation. There is an undeniable connection between work performance and life. Who you are outside of work is who you are at your job. Galvin discusses how c...