Episode 250: Back to Basics - Building a Season of Performance
Purple Patch Podcast
The Challenges of the Time-Staffed Athletes
A time-staffed athlete has to manage a huge amount of variable stresses in life. The biggest reward is everything that's going to come along with the journey, says Mike Downey. Successful training can only be successful if it builds you up and isn't destructive.
With the wave of the new year's short-term objectives behind us, it’s time to get serious about the year and season ahead.
Make no mistake, the focus or goal for most of you is to achieve! Whether that be results, PRs, finish lines, or championships, most people we chat with are eager to take their performance to the next level.
To do that, we must first align with the goal and think bigger about the role of fitness and performance in the life of a time-starved athlete. In this episode of the Purple Patch Podcast, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon returns to fundamentals and helps frame an intelligent approach for your athletic journey.
Matt frames the discussion in three parts:
- The role of the athletic journey in broader life
(11:55) "The sporting journey is something that can be a little bit of a backbone or a framework for us to organize components around...If you do things successfully, and you get your recipe right...it should be a catalyst for you to improve your health profile. And beyond that, you should actually amplify your energy in the day. And if you have more energy, you're going to have more willpower and focus to actually give to all of the other components of life. And that means better clarity, better decision making, better ability to stay on task -- and that becomes really powerful.
- The unique challenges of the time-starved athlete
(17:11) "It's never just about time...when we just label things in a challenge of time, I think that we miss a really important point, and that's that what we're really faced with as a time-starved athlete, is more of a challenge of total stress accumulation...A time-starved athlete has to manage a huge amount of variable stresses in life."
- A performance approach for time-starved athletes (the four pillars of performance)
(26:53) "They combine and what they end up creating is your own performance recipe. They are in many ways, your toolkit, your method for you to approach everything around your goals and your performance to Yes, take your performance to the next level, but also to go beyond and think about effective productivity, boosting your health and more."
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 03:06 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:14 - 08:32 - Matt's News-ings
08:39 - 48:00 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 250: Back to Basics - Building a Season of Performance
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