377 - The One Decision That Could Redefine Your 2026
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On the episode, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon discusses the importance of the off-season in triathlon, offering free Needs Assessment calls to help athletes plan for 2026. He emphasizes the critical role of physical challenges in improving performance, both for athletes and non-athletes. Dixon explains that physical challenges provide embodied learning, immediate feedback, and confidence-building experiences. He highlights the neuroscience behind high-stakes situations, noting that controlled stress paired with recovery enhances resilience and performance. Dixon encourages listeners to set ambitious physical challenges now to ensure a successful and well-prepared 2026 season. If you have any questions about the Purple Patch program, feel free to reach out at info@purplepatchfitness.com.
Episode Timecodes:
00-1:13 Promo
1:40-4:11 Intro
4:39-10:32 Part 1
10:46-18:40 Case Studies
18:45-29:08 Part 2
29:19-End - Embodied Learning
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Transcription
Matt Dixon 00:00
2026, do you want to make this the best season yet for you? Well, guess what? It doesn't start in January. It starts in off season. It is a critical phase, and in the world of triathlon, there's a ton of information out there. It can be complicated, it can be time consuming to understand, but we're going to help you break through. We are offering complementary offseason Needs Assessment calls. You can meet with one of our coaches, where we can understand your background, your goals, what your ideal pathway is to success. Now it might result in us finding that you're a great fit for purple patch, but either way, I tell you what, you're going to leave with some real, practical insights to make sure that you can go ahead and nail your off season, which I have said many times and we dig into on today's show, is the baseline most critical phase for athletes to have performance breakthroughs. It's very, very simple to get involved. All you need to do is reach out to us. Info@purplepatchfitness.com let them know that you'd like a needs assessment with whether orb coaches and we will set you up. We are going to unlock your effectiveness and your offseason magic. Enjoy the show. I'm Matt Dixon, and welcome to the purple patch podcast. The mission of purple patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life
Matt Dixon 01:42
and Matt and welcome to the purple patch podcast as ever, your host Matt Dixon and folks, it's not even Halloween yet, at least at the time of my recording, and yet I am still today, going to be the first I believe, In the performance space to discuss goals for 2026 it might feel early, yet I feel there is some important timing we have to go through now. This episode today, as you listen, is for a couple of groups of people. The first is the committed amateur athlete. And I want to shake up your world, your approach, just a little bit to help you go to the next level next year. It's also for the busy, everyday professional who care about their health and, of course, their performance across work and life, but don't necessarily tackle events. Don't identify as an athlete per se. We're going to bring you all together from the different spectrum and bring you into the performance sphere, and we're going to talk about high performance. Here's the mission of today's show. The first is an investigation into the power of physical challenges and why every one of us who care about improvement and showing up our best should maybe step off the sideline and jump into the fire of challenge. What you're going to learn as we go through today is how physical challenges are different from other types of challenges, personal challenges, professional challenges, intellectual challenges, etc. We're also going to dig into what actually happens in the brain when we lean into high stakes situations these challenges, what's actually mechanically going on from a neuroscience standpoint, and how can this help us across all aspects of life? And finally, what might this look like for you as an athlete or a business professional? How might you take these lessons and apply them to your situation so that you can get out of your comfort zone and leverage growth? I want one more thing by the end of it, I want to make sure that I dig into the why. Why am I talking about this? Now, such weird timing. Typically, it's New year, new you all about January, but I feel like this is the time, the really important time that we talk about it. Everyone else is going to start in January. We are going to start in October already. It is going to be short, sweet, inspiring, I hope, but ultimately powerful for you. And with that, let's get going challenges. 2026 we're going to do the meat and potatoes.
Matt Dixon 04:19
Well, I figure if we're going to talk about physical challenges and really highlight how they're so beneficial for you, no matter who you are listening, I think we should first define what I'm talking about here, and let's really get a grounding into this. So for part one, I want to dig into just the concept of physical challenges. I spent a lot of time on this show highlighting the performance power of you really establishing two what I would label interconnected components that help you bring the best out of yourself. The first is a platform of physical readiness. And you will know, if you're a regular listener, that we call that your performance base layer. This is always the start. Point, no matter who we're talking about, world class athletes, leaders, business professionals, whatever it might be, putting a physical foundation in place first. And this is established through really consistent exercise, movement, training, etc, as well as a host of supporting habits. And they fuel that critical foundation. Those habits are things like eating properly, getting enough downtime and intentional recovery, sleep, etc, and we put that together. That's one part of high performance. What ings into that? The other part of it is a really robust mental game, a toolkit of traits that enable us to show up every single day at best and be ready and equipped for the twists and the turns of any performance journey. In other words, not just the stamina for the journey, but the toolkit to perform under pressure. And when we weave these together, body and mind create a strong fabric, if you like, of high performance. The question is, of course, great. Those are the two components. I care about my brain. I care about my body and my physical readiness. But what's the optimal pathway to develop these core traits and elements of performance readiness? The physical is pretty simple to understand if you're an athlete listening. Well, what you do to develop the physical foundation of readiness is you train a lot, and you marry that training with the supporting cast. In other words, you adopt habits around post workout, fueling, proper nutrition. You want to hydrate daily. You want to make sure you're getting a lot of restoration and recovery. There's a whole industry based on that. And you want to prioritize sleep and we're balancing, for an athlete, the load, the total load where we're looking to apply within the context of our life, the highest training load possible, at which your body can positively adapt to. So we don't want an overload of total stress, especially when we're fitting this training into the broader aspect of other life, stresses such as work, travel, etc, because a chronically high stress load breaks all. It will break us systemically. It will break us mentally.
Matt Dixon 07:12
We won't enjoy it, and of course, it will break us structurally, aka getting injured. So it's pretty simple for the physical readiness to understand great what we're looking to do is apply training load that's effective. What about folks that don't identify as being an athlete? Well, this is really about putting the physical foundation in place through a simple set of practices and habits. And these habits should, by definition, improve our energy, help us stabilize the elevated energy, increase our capacity from a physical standpoint, and amplify our cognitive function. That's what we're looking to do. So that's how we implement these you might not be event specific, but we are building capacity. We are building physical resilience, and that's going to fuel our ability to show up our very best, mentally and physically every single day, and be slightly protected with the reduced risk of such frequent illness and disease, and so we get to stay in the game longer. So that's pretty simple. That's the physical. It's basically a commitment to practices and habits, whether you're steering it towards event specific training or you're just steering it towards showing up your best every single day. The mental, that's the other side of it. Remember, how is that improved? Well, we understand and science projects it, and we're going to dig into this today, but we understand that the way that we improve our mental game is by getting out of our comfort zone. We can't just read about becoming more resilient or suddenly developing adaptability and really understanding how to navigate failure, you kind of got to live it a little bit. It's experiential learning. And experiential learning emerges when we actually get out of our comfort zone and sit in simmering discomfort. So challenges deliver experiences, whole bunch of lessons and experiences that are unavoidable, that are going to help you raise your mental game, and I mentioned a couple of them, setbacks. When you take on a challenge, something that's difficult, something that's tough, you're going to have to overcome obstacles, roadblocks, and you're probably going to stray off course, so you need to get back on course and course correct. It's also going to foster your toughness and grit, and you get better when you commit to this type of stuff. If you're taking on a challenge that's a little bit scary and demanding, you're going to have to be really ruthless in your prioritization. The list goes on. So challenges deliver these experiences when we discuss physical challenges. Both physical and mental games are primed for an up level. That's the good thing about physical challenges. Now we should define what I mean by taking on a physical challenge as it relates to this show, because you might be listening as a triathlete or a marathon runner, or someone that is not event driven at all, that might even currently be pretty sedentary, and so when I say physical challenges, it really depends who you are as a listener. Let me highlight this with a couple of simple, very quick case studies. If you're a triathlete right now and you happen to be finishing up a 2025, season of racing, terrific. When I talk about physical challenges today, I want to put the big wooden spoon in the pot, and I want to stir it up a little bit, so I'm not encouraging you to replicate what you've already done 2026 remember, this is about 2026 planning. 2026 might be the year when you decide to take on something bigger, something even more challenging than what this year was. That might be from going from a half Ironman distance triathlon to your very first Iron Man that might be taking on the commitment and putting it out there to say, I'm not going to complete, I'm going to compete.
Matt Dixon 11:30
I want to finish on the podium, I want to qualify to the World Championships. Maybe you're even going to get off the Iron Man train as a triathlete and say, You know what? I'm going to do something really different. I'm going to go and tackle a 50k trail running race, or a 50 mile, or even 100k trail running race, goodness me, Do I even have the legs to do that, or even like I did a couple of years ago, go and complete the seven day orb route, a seven day bike race through the mountains of the Alps in France and Switzerland. Very, very demanding, and I should say, pretty scary stuff. So if you're listening today as an athlete, I'm talking about stirring up the pot, mixing it up, and doing something that you just never done before. When I'm talking about physical challenge as it relates today, I want you to get out of your comfort zone. Don't just sit with the repeatability side of it. Okay, so how can you mix it up? How can you do something that actually scares you a little bit? We'll come back to that. The second case study, though, is the other side of the listenership. If you're listening today and you don't identify as an athlete, that's great. And maybe, when I talk about physical challenge, what I'm discussing here is maybe you do buy on something that's a little event based something that you've never done before. Could it be that you go and walk or run a half marathon? Goodness me, that's a real challenge and an accomplishment. Maybe you're gonna tackle your very first triathlon. Perhaps you're fearful of water, and you're gonna learn how to swim. We've done a whole podcast on that prior. Or you're gonna double down on performance habits instead and say, You know what? I'm not gonna do an event. I'm not going to try and learn to swim, but I am going to go and take on a really big physical challenge. The in definition by completing it is always, always also somewhat of a reward. That might be deciding to climb up to the top of the mountain peak that sits over your house, something that's three miles up in the sky that you're going to go and hit, or maybe you're going to take a hiking vacation with a friend, or a cycling holiday with a friend, or perhaps you're going to enter a team based High Rocks event. It doesn't matter what it is, but something that you've never done before. In either scenario, you can see that there's a broad spectrum here, but in either the scenario, there's a couple of common threads that are necessary for it to be a catalyst for growth. The first
Matt Dixon 14:11
is that by writing down that challenge, by committing to it, by sharing it with your friend or your partner, it should elicit real trepidation. You might even say fear, some uncertainty in your ability to succeed. That's the type of challenge that is a catalyst where it's simmering discomfort, not something that you know you can complete for me. For example, if I said I'm going to go and run a 5k what I could go and do that any day. That's not a challenge. That's just me committing to something I want to commit to a challenge where it's really out there, where I think, can I actually do this? That's where growth really occurs. US. So that's number one. The second component of that is that a really effective challenge for you, whatever that is, is a requirement that you probably won't be successful unless you have real commitment and follow through with some form of structured progression towards it, aka training. And you want to be in the realm of possibility that you can be successful. So in other words, it's got to be a little scary, but in order to succeed, you have enough agency that with commitment, with effort, with training, over the course of many months, you can move towards that challenge and it is going to be successful. The reason that commitment is really important is all of the juicy stuff already, the fruit of reward emerges, in this case, from not just the day itself of the challenge, but actually the journey that you're taking to get there. And so this is the components.
Matt Dixon 16:04
Number one, make it be scary. Number two, you can only succeed if you really commit and have some follow through. And number three, ultimately, it is realistic. If you have those the physical challenge, it's all about you picking something for you that's inspiring and that you can actually succeed from your starting point, not when you're in high school, but right now, that's what we're looking for. Okay, if you have these elements in place, you're in a position to leverage that challenge for huge growth, and that's what we want to dig into today. And so as we think about this, I understand it's really, really tough to find the right challenge that fits all of these criteria. And so if you're listening today and you're a non purple patch athlete, purple patch athletes, get our support already. If you're a non purple patch athlete today, feel free to reach out to us. We're happy to set up a complementary needs assessment. And what we would do is listen to your goals, understand your situation, and help you come up with a blueprint plan to fuel your performance for 2026 and so we can help you define what those goals are that are appropriate for you. And then, of course, after that, if and only if, we're a good fit to help you on your journey, terrific, but what we promise is a pressure free chance to pick out performance brains and lean into our years of coaching wisdom to help many other folks just like yourself. So we're happy and delighted to set up a complementary needs assessment. That's a part of why we do this podcast. It's very simple to apply or reach out and find a slot, which is info@purplepatchfitness.com. Alrighty, so that's a physical challenge. That's what we're talking about today. All of us holding hands. Someone getting ready for a 50k someone getting ready for a hiking holiday, someone that's going to learn how to swim, someone that's going to go and complete their first Iron Man, someone that's going to try and be a world champion. It doesn't matter. We're dedicated to improve. We're holding hands. We're going to support each other on this journey. So my question is, when you take on these physical challenges, what happens to your brain by investigating this and to truly appreciate the value behind physical challenges, it's worth US digging into a little bit of basic neuroscience.
Matt Dixon 18:35
Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about the brain. Yep, the thing between your ears, because there's a wealth of scientific research that highlights a truth about our all powerful brain, and the part of the brain that we really care about is broken up into two parts, the first the prefrontal cortex that's sitting at the front of the brain, and then just on top of the stem the amygdala. These are the two components that we think about this. If you're not aware our prefrontal cortex, that area that sits at the front of the brain, that's the part of the brain that is responsible for some really important elements of performance, planning, focus decision making. And of course, in a sporting context and in a professional and a life context, we want to keep that logical planning decision making part of the brain online and in control, the amygdala. And on the other hand, we can think about that as our threat detector. In many ways, it's our fire alarm, and what it's responding to is perceived threats or high demands, that highly reactive portion of the brain. Now, research from Amy Arnstein Yale University 2009 shows. Stress spikes. The amygdala shuts down the prefrontal cortex. So of course, what occurs there? You've got planning, decision making, focus and the amygdala, very, very loud, a little bit like a fire alarm going off. It shuts down that part of the brain, and that leads to a panic response. It can also lead to paralysis, and we see this in all sorts of situations. But her research is really interesting, because by repeated controlled exposure to high stress situations, trains the prefrontal cortex to stay online under pressure. This is really interesting. In other words, we get to control the prefrontal cortex getting sabotaged by the amygdala. There are other studies out there, Nature Neuroscience, by McEwen in 2012 that also highlight the fact that acute, intentional stress paired with recovery. Huh? What's that word? Again? Downtime, sleep, proper, hydration. Recovery drives neuroplasticity. So that's a key point. We are exposed to high stakes situation, and the brain, in many ways, gets trained to keep the part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, that we care about online in control. It also gets trained to keep the amygdala under control, not able to sabotage that prefrontal cortex.
Matt Dixon 21:33
Really interesting. This is important, but there's more to this as well. I'm going to highlight another study out of Nature Neuroscience, this is McEwen and tal in 2012 and they highlight that acute intentional stress. So in other words, getting exposed to high state situations, when you pair that boom high pressure environment with appropriate recovery, something that you've heard a lot on this show. In other words, downtime, sleep, proper nutrition, etc. It drives neuroplasticity, and that fosters the brain's ability to rewire and adapt. Now the reason that's really important is if we sit consistently at hard work high pressure without any downtime, it lose leads to accumulated chronic stress. And accumulated chronic stress, your body's reaction or response to a perceived threat starts to break us down. But when we have targeted stress situations, paired with enough downtime and recovery, those high pressure situations actually build resilience, they force adaptations. It's no different than a muscle. You train a muscle, then you let it rest, we sleep. Adaptations help it get stronger. You train the brain with very stressful situations, you allow downtime, you get enough sleep, you step away from the challenge, and the brain gets stronger. As it were, it's really, really important. So these studies, and many other like them show them repeated exposure to high stakes situations. And this could be a match point in a tennis game. Remember that? Remember, imagine if you're standing at Wimbledon and you're going to win the championships. It's pretty high stakes. Or it could be an ER nurse saving a patient's life pretty high stakes, or it could be the pressure of an athlete working through a really tough, sustained threshold workout.
Matt Dixon 23:49
These are lived experiences, and over time, repeated exposures to these high stakes situations trains the brain to keep that prefrontal cortex online, making it stronger, more focused and better at making decisions under immense pressure. Think about how valuable that is for a tool, not just for an athlete, but in broader life. Similarly, repeated exposure to those same types of high stake moments also improves the circuitry of the amygdala so it turns down the panic response it and doesn't allow it to hijack performance. Instead, enables the prefrontal cortex to stay online even when pressure spikes. Of course, this doesn't mean that more is better. Remember, I want to double it down again. Chronic, unmanaged stress breaks down. Health erodes performance, but exposure intentional with recovery, it sparks adaptations. It strengthens resilience, it sharpens your performance capacity. So understanding this is the brain. Mean, the reason I wanted to hover on this so long today is because this is absolutely central to why we love people taking on physical challenges so much. If we commit to a big physical challenge suitable to our starting point and our life situation, and we embrace the journey of preparation, we can expect that, yes, it's going to be uncomfortable, because discomfort is necessary for growth, and we must for it to be successful, not just dump it on top of life, but still take seriously and prioritize other key components that can balance that stress with high recovery opportunity, so proper fueling, proper sleep, proper downtime, etc. And when we put these hand in hand, it fuels growth. It develops those traits of high performance, their lived experiences that you go through. And so this is important. But as you sit here today, you've heard my examples of high stake situations, and you suddenly realize what actually not all of those were actually going through and thinking about sporting experiences, a nurse in the ER, for example, or going on the journey to take a company public, whatever it might be. And so there are physical challenges, in other words, challenging or building up and training for a marathon or getting ready for a long hike, whatever it might be.
Matt Dixon 26:36
There's also professional challenges, really focusing on a deep challenge, whether it's business, whether it's an incredibly tough crossword, whatever it might be, there is challenges that are just self challenges that are really difficult. Imagine me being in Cambodia and losing my passport and trying to get home that's in a high stakes situation. I need to get back home, and I've lost my passport, and I'm in Cambodia, that elicits a high stakes situation itself. So why am I sitting here today and saying all of those challenges will train the brain, but what I care about is you in 2026 taking on a physical challenge. Why do I care about that? Well, the answer in that is, what makes the physical challenges unique, number one and number two, the multiplier effect of pairing challenges such as your role at work, or being a great parent, and then combining it with a physical challenge, and time and time again, us seeing the multiplier effect on a human being's performance. For me, this is where the magic occurs. When you combine a physical challenge with other challenges in life, they become partners in performance multiplication. And so we love it when we get people out of their comfort zone and they have the courage to integrate and take on a physical challenge, impaired with other challenges, something magic occurs. But the common piece of the puzzle is always that physical. And so why? You might ask, why are physical challenges so so different? After all, there's lots of ways that we can challenge ourselves, remember, but I care about the physical. Is it because I was an athlete? Is it because I'm a coach? Maybe a part of it, but actually it's because I'm not just backed by years of research across the academic field. I've seen the power myself, not just at professional athletes, but but people that just adopt practices and habits. There's something special about the physical here's the first component.
Matt Dixon 29:07
Physical challenges represent embodied learning. I want you to remember that phrase, they are embodied learning. In other words, your body is your teacher. When you take on a physical challenge, you get to actually experience resilience, stamina, your own limits in real time. And this makes the elements, those experiences and all of the lessons, visceral. They're almost impossible to ignore. Secondly, when you're taking on physical challenges, you are getting immediate feedback loop, the physical effort that you must put out at your own level trying to build a mini victory at yourself. The physical effort produces very clear signals, signals such as fatigue or soreness or endorphins. Growth or little improvements in your strength or your endurance, how far you can go, how fast you can run. And this enables tangible, almost immediate feedback into your progress, but also ensures that we are forced to live through the setbacks, and this becomes a powerful catalyst of growth and learning. We also get through physical challenges, confidence through our own capability, when we overcome something, something that is physical, such as maybe running a little further than we ever have, or lifting a weight a little heavier, or learning to swim a lap across the pool for the first time, or climbing up to the top of a hill that we've always looked at out of our window we never thought we'd accomplish, there starts to develop a sense of self trust, and I've seen it time and time again. When we do that, it molds how we view ourselves. That self trust, that empowerment that comes with it. You don't need to be an athlete to feel it, but you know the magic consistently, it spills into other aspects of your life. So we're going through this lived experience with a consistent immediate feedback loop, and we're starting to build confidence in ourselves because of progression. And here's one more thing, with physical challenges, this comes back to the very core of who we are as a human being. The body is so tied to survival that when you face physical discomfort, it absolutely rewires your relationship, and that's your relationship to stress, to pain, and, of course, to fear. And it is a direct rewiring that is so different than any other form of challenge, you just don't get that relationship.
Matt Dixon 31:58
So all of this wraps up into my experience of why people that identify as themselves as being athletes, not world champions, anyone that commits to something of a physical challenge, I believe everybody is an athlete in them, but when you see yourself as an athlete, and you buy into it, They don't just believe that they're resilient. They know it because they live it. And that is the power and the beauty of the stuff, the physical challenge. If you're currently an athlete listening to this, I hope that this is inspiration to go big in 2026 seriously, go big. Think about it as you do your season planning. Get outside of the box. Don't just go, oh, shall I go back to the Oregon Half Ironman? Because that was a good race. And I like the town and my in laws are there. Go Big. Take on a big bite of the apple, because that's how you're going to grow. And if you're listening today and you don't identify as an athlete, buckle up. Let's go what's a challenge for you and get going on it. Because I promise, whenever I see someone that doesn't identify as an athlete and puts a stake in the ground and says, gosh darn it, I'm going to do this. It's going to fuel adherence to the stuff that you already know, will make you perform better in life, but more than that, it's going to give you purpose and direction. It will provide you with a lived experience, but quite literally, and look at me in the eyes, if you're watching this quite literally, could change your life. I mean that sincerely, I've never met anyone and never seen anyone
Matt Dixon 33:50
that has taken on a physical challenge that after going on the journey, whether they are successful in completion of the challenge or not, had wished that they'd never done it when, if someone goes all in, they get everything out. And so to finish today, I come back to the question that I asked. Why now? Why am I going on about this right now? After all, it's not even Halloween as I'm recording. The answer relates back to the last few episodes that we've gone through off season. Because if you do buy in, if you're going to go big next year, and if you're truly going to level up, I'll give you my biggest piece of advice that I can give yourself time to do it right, starting in 2026 January, it is going to be a forcing agent for you to feel the pressure and get rushed. And yes, I know when you put something off, it does force you quickly, but that's not the way to. Do a performance journey. This is not something to start later, okay, this is something that begins now. You can start without great time pressure. You can establish your roadmap. You can begin the journey with sensible progression and mini victories. And while you're doing that and you're feeling the progression, comfortable, steady progression, rather than a rocket ship that's sure to burn out and fade, you can also work on putting over in place some of the key components. You can start to integrate it into your life. You can start to calendar it. You can start to develop important practices and habits that take time to become habits.
Matt Dixon 35:46
You can put them in place now, when the pressure is lower so that you stay healthy, you can unlock the competition between the goal that you're choosing, the challenge, and all of your life commitments, and have them work together to multiply your performance. And so this is honestly the time. It's just the conversation that I'm having with all of my athletes. If I'm speaking to an athlete that's just finished their big race of the year, I want them to take a little break. But now I'm saying this is the critical role of off season, a standalone phase in itself. And it's the same thing if you're going to commit to a big up level in your performance in 2026 this is the time to start the right way. And remember, if you are going to start, don't do it alone. Seriously. Don't do it alone. Lean in team, community, mentorship and support coaching. And so with that, I ask you, what is your going to be, your physical challenge in 2026 what is it going to be in sport and inactivity and what is it going to be in life. Take on big challenges and have them work together in a bi directional impact to help you to become a better human being. As I mentioned in the middle of the show, we are here to help. If you're not currently a part of the purple patch athlete group, reach out for a complementary needs assessment. We want to help, and we want to understand your situation, your goals, and then we will help you pave a pathway that delivers yourself to personal excellence, to unlock more than you can ever imagine. Info@purplepatchfitness.com, I hope that helps with the perspective.
Matt Dixon 37:41
We'll see you next time. Take care, guys. Thanks so much for joining and thank you for listening. I hope that you enjoyed the new format. You can never miss an episode by simply subscribing. Head to the purple patch channel of YouTube, and you will find it there and you could subscribe, of course, I'd like to ask you if you will subscribe, also share it with your friends, and it's really helpful if you leave a nice, positive review in the comments. Now, any questions that you have let me know, feel free to add a comment, and I will try my best to respond and support you on your performance journey. And in fact, as we commence this video podcast experience. If you have any feedback at all, as mentioned earlier in the show, we would love your help in helping us to improve. Simply email us at info@purplepatchfitness.com or leave it in the comments of the show at the purple patch page, and we will get you dialed in. We'd love constructive feedback. We are in a growth mindset, as we like to call it, and so feel free to share with your friends. But as I said, Let's build this together. Let's make it something special. It's really fun. We're really trying hard to make it a special experience, and we want to welcome you into the purple patch community with that. I hope you have a great week. Stay healthy, have fun, keep smiling, doing whatever you do, take care.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
offseason training, physical challenges, performance breakthroughs, needs assessment, athletic potential, high performance, mental game, physical readiness, neuroscience, prefrontal cortex, amygdala, resilience, embodied learning, recovery, growth.