Purple Patch Podcast

Performance and Mental Coach, Jeff Troesch, returns this week to talk about navigating THE NOW - this era of COVID-19 and the lack of races and our usual structured season. A mental coach is often forgotten until you face adversity. They’re often viewed as “fixers,” but as this episode shows, continually working on your mental skills is all about performance enhancement and not necessarily fixing something that is broken. What is the best way for you to approach and tackle the challenges that we are faced with now and for the foreseeable future? What are some of the mental exercises that the pros and elites employ?  How can you avoid the “f*ck its" in a time that may be filled with disappointment and apathy? What is the right balance between empathy and pulling yourself up from the bootstraps? We understand the inclination without races is to fall into random training, but know this: when you fall into a random training structure, your entire life becomes random and rudderless. Leverage this time to n

Matt and Sports Psychologist, Jeff Troesch, talk about the role of a sports psychologist and some of the biggest myths regarding successful athletes, especially as it pertains to mindset and performance. Champions are fearless. Champions always expect to win. Champions are motivated to their long-term goals. Champions always trust themselves and bring high confidence. Champions always know the ‘right way’ to train, eat, approach.   Episode Resources: Facebook: jefftroesch11 Instagram: @jefftroesch Twitter: @JTroesch78   Purple Patch Coaching Resources Learn More about Purple Patch 1:1 Coaching Learn More about Purple Patch Squad Thanks for taking a listen and, if you like what you hear, please subscribe, share, rate, and review. Your feedback is appreciated.   Subscribe to the Purple Patch Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts  

For time-starved fitness enthusiasts, what are the five fundamental key rules to commit to on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis?  What are these tips that, if you nail down as habits, will serve you well to retain consistency and realize the benefits of your hard work? Embrace the Power of Low Stress Variance Fuel Up Following Every Session Get Your Strength In Always Leave Room for Proper Sleep Matt dishes on this fun and accessible episode that will serve as a good reminder for some and catalyst of change for others. Simple and actionable right now - no matter where you are in your performance journey.    Purple Patch Coaching Resources Learn More about Purple Patch 1:1 Coaching Learn More about Purple Patch Squad Thanks for taking a listen and, if you like what you hear, please subscribe, share, rate, and review. Your feedback is appreciated. Subscribe to the Purple Patch Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts

Today's show focuses on effective leadership -  looking ahead over the coming months on how coaches should consider approaching the uncertainty with their athletes. Coaches are leaders and there is plenty to draw from in this show. Take note, coaches, and managers. It isn’t all a disaster! It is, however, time to step up and lead. You have tools at your disposal to help and it just takes a little dose of clarity, communication, planning, and leaning into your biggest assets you have: your athletes. Leaders? Same applies. It is time to plan, communicate, and lean into YOUR biggest assets - your employees. Yes, your team. You have an important role to play, and here is a clue. It isn’t just about getting athletes ready to race. As a coach, your role expands beyond this. Your role is to help athletes navigate the uncertainty, stress, and turbulence. You should be delivering an approach that focuses on: A great platform of health and resilience. A release from the rigors and stressors of life. A framework t

In honor of Father's Day, we present our "Ask Daddy Anything" episode. Matt answers your questions related to: Return to Racing this Year Hopes and Fears for Athletes as they Emerge from the Pandemic Timing on Multiple Daily Workouts Priorities When Becoming a First-Time Parent His Favorite Aspects of Being a Dad   IRONMAN Return to Racing Video   Precision Hydration - Uplevel Your Downtime Visit the web page to fill out your Sunday Special and receive a personal review from Matt Dixon. Plus, read the details on how you can sit in on an exclusive roundtable with Matt Dixon and Andy Blow to ask your personal performance questions.   Picky Bars Promotion Between now and June 30th, Register for Purple Patch 1:1 coaching and receive a 3-month membership to the Picky Bars Picky Club. Details at PurplePatchFitness.com/pickybarspromo All Purple Patch Podcast Listeners can receive 25% off your first purchase and/or first month of the Picky Club. Use "PURPLEPATCHPODCAST" at check-out. Visit PickyBars.com  

Make no mistake, the fabric of society is being stretched and global stress is elevated for almost everyone. The acute awareness of the need for resilience, adaptability, and a platform of health is rising, but a key component of development in these areas lies recovery - often under-valued, misunderstood, and ignored. As you emerge stronger, there will be lots of hard work ahead, but success will only come if you make room for smart and strategic ongoing rejuvenation and recovery. In this episode, the "recovery coach" takes you on a journey: What is stress? Why are so many feeling a global sense of fatigue right now? Are training stress and life stress mutually exclusive? What exactly is recovery and what simple action steps can you take right now to improve your platform of health and energy? EFFECTIVE recovery first emerges from your state of mind. In fact, it takes courage to recover. In this episode, Matt shows you how.   Episode Resources:    Precision Hydration - Uplevel Your Downtime Visit the web p

What is the difference between inclusion and real belonging in a community? Can you have one without the other? Yes, indeed, you can. Unfortunately, there are too many groups where you can be included without feeling like you truly belong. What is the missing ingredient? Trust. Trust, which starts at the individual level, is central to a community and fosters an environment that feels safe for all members. This episode is a personal one.    Book and Reading Resources from June 3rd Podcast For those of you whose hearts are hurting right now and who want to do more to better understand and fight racism, it looks like there are some really good resources below. https://medium.com/wake-up-call/a-detailed-list-of-anti-racism-resources-a34b259a3eea Black Lives Matter Reading List: https://www.booktable.net/black-lives-matter-reading-list For kids: https://www.instagram.com/theconsciouskid/. Their Patreon page is full of good resources. Some other books that have been recommended to me: My Grandmother's Hands - Th

Over the last two months, you've stabilized, adapted and innovated. The weather is improving in most places, and maybe, just maybe, races are on the horizon? We don't know, but what we do know is that you can continue to progress. So, how should you approach your training in the coming months? If races don’t happen, you'll be priming yourself for a massive season in 2021. It will be disappointing, sure, but the work you will have done will NOT be wasted. Remember our theme: Emerge stronger. If you stay on track, the very worst outcome that can happen is that you end this season improved and primed to SHOW those improvements next year. We can think of worse outcomes, yes? So how should you approach the coming months of training? How can you start to spray that perfume of performance without overdoing it? Matt breaks it down into three main areas: * Mindset * Building the Plan * Getting it right in execution As Matt says in the podcast, "It's a great time to ramp to become Strong Like Bull, but you're going to

An effective coach or leader will be equipped to guide their pupils through the change. They will set the conditions to enable a course correction and acceleration and the really great ones will find a wonderful balance between empathy, tough-love, and accountability. The success of teams and athletes isn’t mystical. It also isn’t luck. Matt takes a deep dive into the subject of keeping your team, athletes, or employees engaged. In turbulent times, what are the essential considerations that leaders must put to real engagement, focus, and execution of a clear path forward? Matt outlines and explains with stories and case studies of two very different approaches to leadership.   Picky Bars Promotion Between now and June 30th, Register for Purple Patch 1:1 coaching and receive a 3-month membership to the Picky Bars Picky Club. Email us at support@purplepatchfitness.com and set up a time to discuss 1:1 coaching options. All Purple Patch Podcast Listeners can receive 25% off your first purchase and/or first month

Jesse Thomas joins Matt to discuss his recent retirement from a successful 10-year professional triathlon career. This conversation with Matt and Jesse is full of stories that include many lessons of high performance, the importance of sharing the journey, the value of coaching, how to navigate adversity, using metrics correctly, keeping it fun, and emerging stronger from failure. It's a testament to friendship, respect, and the value of a long-term coaching relationship. Squad Birthday Promotion Register for the Squad Birthday Giveaway   Picky Bars Promotion Between now and June 30th, Register for Purple Patch 1:1 coaching and receive a 3-month membership to the Picky Bars Picky Club. Email us at support@purplepatchfitness.com and set up a time to discuss 1:1 coaching options. All Purple Patch Podcast Listeners can receive 25% off your first purchase and/or first month of the Picky Club. Use "PURPLEPATCH" at check-out. Visit PickyBars.com Jesse Thomas Blog on Retirement   Flexibility Study Read the report f

In this episode on our continuing series of #emergingstronger, Matt outlines a playbook for a "ramp to racing." A return to racing will happen soon. We don't know exactly when, but when it happens, you want to be ready...race ready. What should that look like as you emerge from the fog? What should you seek to accomplish on your return? In setting up this episode, Matt defines and lays out: Reminders of key elements that your training should have right now Important considerations as we inch towards a racing mindset Key sessions, mindset, and setting up your "ramp to racing" Remember, you are not seeking a return to the old you. You are seeking…growth. You don’t want to return. You want to emerge. Episode Resources Register for the Squad Birthday Giveaway Get the Zoom Link for Watt Bombs and Wonder Women with Sarah Piampiano and Chelsea Sodaro Purple Patch Coaching Resources Learn More about Purple Patch 1:1 Coaching Learn More about Purple Patch Squad Not sure how to leave a review for the podcast at Apple

In this fog of covid-19 and in the midst of your "new normal," are you going to regress, tread water, or emerge stronger?

Whether you’re an athlete, an individual, a parent, a leader, or a business, we’ve all been navigating through several different phases of this thing called Covid-19. There was the sudden change, the initial desperate plans, frustrations, adjustments, and innovation, and now, what you might call - the new normal. It is only now that we can start to look forward. How do we emerge stronger? Matt's guest is Carmel Galvin, Chief Human Resources Officer for Autodesk. She and Matt take a deep dive into the in-depth approach of Autodesk during this time to create empathy, flexibility, and ongoing transparent communication with their employees and customers. You'll also learn how they're preparing their thousands of employees to seek success around four important areas: Community, Physical health, Financial support, Purpose Like any athletic endeavor, achieving any goal comes with patience, perseverance, breaking it down into manageable tasks, being highly resilient, and applying technique over and over again. The le

This week, we showcase a recent live presentation Matt debuted for GetSetUp, a resource and education site that focuses on re-skilling Seniors who then teach other Seniors how to do all the important things in their lives from navigating health care, to online bill pay, and more. This timely live seminar was centered around resilience and human performance for those who are 50+ and Matt shared his insights about: Health. Defining what "health" means for the non-athlete and tips for maintaining individual health and resilience at this moment Stability. The importance of managing anxiety, creating stability, and new routines Finding Purpose. Grounding in something bigger than you Seeking Connection. Making human connection while apart Perspective. How to reframe a bad situation to evolve and ultimately thrive You might have older parents, or you might know someone who would benefit. We hope you'll share the presentation because now is the time to come together to find a shared path that will help our most vulne

For many, the compass or guiding light of race targets are hidden by the fog of COVID-19, with little real understanding of when the fog will lift. How do you train for something when you don’t know what that something is? Where does training fit in the whole big puzzle at the moment? What are some practical guidelines for you to maximize training NOW so that you can thrive later? The answers are likely not all quite what you might expect, but Matt dives in and provides a performance framework for resilience and progression.  Sport and training are the best arenas to share an experience, share the suffering, and safely sweat on each other with the protection of your screen providing the divide. We'd love to have you join in the collective sharing with Purple Patch.     Episode Resources and Show Notes: Learn More about Purple Patch 1:1 Coaching Learn More about Purple Patch Squad Not sure how to leave a review for the podcast at Apple Podcasts?  Watch this :10 sec video Thanks for taking a listen and, if yo

This week, it's part two of our double-header on resilience. If you missed last week's episode on developing resilience within yourself, you can listen HERE. In part two, we think beyond ourselves, which is something that all of us must do in these uncertain times. This episode provides context on helping others navigate these times, develop mental and physical resilience, and even thrive. How can a coach create resilience with their athletes during this time when motivation and anxiety ebb and flow? How can a team leader provide perspective to a team with so many unknowns? Fear and anxiety must give way to action and, as a leader, it is your duty to lead the charge. In fact, it is your purpose and part of that role is creating a purpose-driven journey for those you lead. Matt dissects five principles that all leaders and coaches should employ when developing a resilient team: Health - Set up an environment that encourages health and time for self Stability - Within chaos, you must create structure, new rou

This episode is part one of a two-part episode on RESILIENCE. There are two arms of building resilience: Resilience for yourself - Your platform to develop performance Resilience for others - Guiding and leading a team, company or athletes to improved resilience. You can only do part two of the resilience equation IF you have part one dialed.   Today. we explore the self and building your platform of resiliency. At a time that mental and physical resilience has never mattered more, and is a central trait to the most effective and successful athletes and leaders in the world, how do you go about working on your own resilience? What steps can you take to become more resilient? We explore this week through the lens of a professional athlete and an executive, both of whom are stabilizing in this new norm. It is ONLY from a self-focused resilience platform that one is able to thrive, to perform, to become a better pro, or to be a great leader or manager. This is the time. When sporting goals take a backseat,

As the daily reality of living in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic starts to settle in, we appreciate that this is an incredibly challenging time for everyone. It is one that we will unite and support you and each other, but we cannot claim that it will all be rosy and cheerful as we drive forward. Our collective mantra is focused around these simple three words: Stabilize - Adapt - Innovate. In this episode, Matt discusses four current and very timely case studies around this new mantra: How families must adapt to this new norm How IRONMAN is making swift adjustments to their structure to create a virtual race season What Purple Patch is doing to innovate and enhance remote coaching How a local restaurant has pivoted to adapt to customer needs under new guidelines Once we navigate through initial anxiety and fear, we adapt to the new mid-term realities of the situation and work hard to ensure those in need are supported and heard. If we come together, we can thrive. When we cannot be together

This BONUS episode is from a LIVE "Meetings with Matt Office Hours" recorded on Monday, March 18th, 2020.  Many of us have lost our compass -- events canceled, training roadmap destroyed, access completely evolved and limited.  It is normal to have a phase of despair, frustration, and declining motivation. In this session, Matt maps a path forward and provides context on how to create structure in the chaos, how to shift your lens of success, and emphasizes the power of community. He also shares many of the upcoming initiatives Purple Patch is creating to foster motivation, positive energy, and a little friendly competition.  Finally, Matt answers listener questions on performance in our new norm. Perhaps you as an athlete or coach will benefit! 

This is a time for resilience and call-to-action from Coach Matt Dixon and Purple Patch Fitness.  What should you do as a performance-minded individual in these uncertain times? Matt Dixon outlines a path and direction to reframe your mindset and empower you to control the controllables.