Purple Patch Podcast

You know it's going to be a good episode when Coach Matt Dixon refers to it as the "Brainiac Pro Edition!" Sonia Bracegirdle, Cecilia Davis-Hayes, and Laurence Delisle are the antithesis of what you might stereotype as a typical professional athlete. Yes, all three are brand new pro athletes starting their journey to world-class, but they have already excelled in many other areas of life. Collecti...

This week, we are offering you a special edition of two episodes in which Purple Patch pros join Matt for roundtable discussions with professional Ironman triathletes like you've never heard before! In Part 1, Coach Matt moderates this honest discussion with three of his elite pros, Kevin Collington , Laura Siddall , and Sarah Piampiano , about goal-setting, managing fears, training management, ra...

Matt discusses the first Purple Patch  Pillar of Performance:  Endurance .  He covers everything from how to set up your week, execute your training effectively, and consistently nail the basics.  You will hear why the focus of your training should be to achieve the necessary volume in order to receive positive adaptations, but still avoid accumulated fatigue. As he says in this episode, "If train...

In this eye-opening episode, Matt goes one-on-one with one of his athletes, Sami Inkinen . Growing up on a farm in Finland, Sami was always intrigued by health, wellness, and athletic performance. He did ride his bike or cross-country ski to-and-from school most days, after all! He moved to the United States in 2003 to attend Stanford Business School , and it's there where he met his friend and bu...

Welcome to Episode Two of The Purple Patch Podcast ,  Performance in a Time-Starved Life. In this episode, Matt issues the challenge to shift our lens of training success away from simply "punching the clock" or achieving a certain number of training hours per week. By using a real-life case study from a Purple Patch athlete, Matt illustrates the corrosive effects of trying to do too much without...

Welcome to Episode One of The Purple Patch Podcast . Will this just be another triathlon podcast? Absolutely not. At Purple Patch Fitness , our mission is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.  It is through the lens of your athletic potential that you will reach your human potential and our interviews and conversations will be driven by this mission. The podc...

The Purple Patch Podcast , hosted by Author and Triathlon Coach, Matt Dixon , will empower and educate you to integrate sport into life in order to reach your athletic potential because, it is through the lens of athletic potential, that you reach your human potential. In addition to topics such as planning your fitness into a time-starved life, the show will provide in-depth interviews, advice, a...