Simon Ward, The High Performance Human Triathlon Podcast
Health & Fitness
This week’s guest is another coach. In fact, he is a UK coach although you are more likely to find him in the US these days. Matt Dixon is well known in the triathlon world as founder and owner of Purple Patch Fitness, based in San Francisco. He coaches age group athletes and professionals including Sam Appleton, Kevin Collington, Sara Pampiano, and UK Ironman pro Laura Siddall. He has also written a couple of books and he has his own podcast (links below). He is also the head coach for the Ironman Executive Challenge and is a presenter for Ironman University.
Some time ago I listened to one of Matt’s podcasts and he referred to the fact that he was known as the “Recovery Coach”, because of the significance that he gives this aspect of training and its place in optimal performance. As this is a topic that is also close to my heart I thought it might be good to take a deeper dive into Recovery for Triathletes. In this conversation we discuss:
To find out more about Matt Dixon please visit his website Purple Patch Fitness. Matt also has 2 excellent books The Fast Track Triathlete and The Well Built Triathlete. You can also hear Matt on his own podcast The Purple Patch Podcast.
For more information please go to www.SimonWardTriathlonCoach.com, or www.TheTriathlonCoach.com, or email Beth@thetriathloncoach.com.
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