Episode 259: Training for a Time-Starved Athlete

Today on the Purple Patch Podcast, Ironman Master Coach Matt Dixon takes a fresh look at how to structure training for a time-starved athlete.

Whether you’re training for an endurance event, either competitively or simply for personal enjoyment, Matt provides a ground-up framework of how to maximize your training approach to be successful.

Matt shares 5 principles to help build your time-starved training plan.

• Establishing a mindset that can optimize your training impact.

Life is not a spreadsheet. Life is a living, breathing, dirty, unpredictable thing that we love. It ebbs and it flows. Your life demands and your stresses amplify, and then they settle for a bit. And therefore your approach, your training plan, needs to be able to flow and synchronize and dance with this stark reality. -14:31

• Tools to ensure each week of training can be productive, no matter how time-starved you are.

We actually build into the construction of a training program, a little bit of a management tool, that when your energy is good, and when life allows, you can show up, be present and do hugely challenging sessions successfully. -19:13

• Why Intensity is an important tool for your approach.

If you are a time-starved athlete, you better lean into getting comfortable, being very uncomfortable, because that is the thing that yields the performance progression.

• Key strategies to get the training in without it taking over your life.

For multi-sport athletes, it's a real puzzle for you to fit all of the training sessions into your plan in any given week. And once again, we come back to this and say as a time-starved athlete, I encourage you to think outside of the box. -28:22

• How team training can ignite your performance if done correctly.

It's really, really hard to go on this journey alone. And so whether you can create some in person or even online component to it, the feeling of belonging and team is a huge catalyst for performance.-31:55

Matt’s approach has secured great outcomes for time-starved athletes of all levels. People who, upon adopting the purple patch approach, believed they could never get faster or ever make time to fit in the training needed to hit their goals.

We invite you to listen to the show and join us. If you are a time-starved athlete looking for the right fit, we encourage you to contact us for a complimentary call to see if we can help educate and guide you to your best results.

Episode Timestamps

00:00 - 4:12 - Welcome and Episode Introduction

04:27 - 8:55 - Word of the Week

8:56 - 39:20 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 259: Training for a Time-Starved Athlete

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