Episode 304: The Complexity of Simplicity - Making Training Methodologies Simple and Actionable
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We recently received a question from a Purple Patch Tri Squad athlete, asking if the Purple Patch Coaching Team keeps up with recent trends and scientific advances in developing and evolving Purple Patch training. He was particularly interested in factors such as Zone 2 training, blood lactate testing, keto or fat adaptive diets, and the methods of Norwegian athletes in endurance performance. He also wondered why the Purple Patch Tri Squad doesn't add forced rest days each week when prescribing training.
At the core of his curiosity was a broader question: Does Purple Patch consider advances in training methodologies? We realized this was the perfect opportunity to frame this episode as one big Q&A session, with that being the only question.
In this episode, Ironman Master Coach Matt Dixon provides an answer. Using examples of his coaching approach for various athletes, Matt illustrates the dynamic lens that must be applied to each athlete while simplifying the training process by relying on a tried-and-true concept: Is it right for you? Does it make you faster? Does it help you show up in all areas of life?
Matt discusses the planning and ongoing research in prescribing simple, easy-to-implement, and effective programming for time-starved athletes. He highlights the hard work Purple Patch coaches dedicate to remaining on the cutting edge of performance to help athletes filter out the noise and distractions.
Matt simplifies athlete training in a constantly changing landscape. He shifts the approach to training globally as a time-starved athlete, ensuring you achieve better sporting results while positively impacting your broader life.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 04:16 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
04:20 - 06:29 - A Message From Matt
06:44 - 10:55 - Word of the Week
10:56 - 37:45 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 304: The Complexity of Simplicity - Making Training Methodologies Simple and Actionable
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Full Transcript
Matt Dixon 00:00
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 00:25
In today's show, we're going to explore taking complex concepts and dialing them down into simple and actionable basics so that you can yield performance gains in whatever is important for you. A tool that we use at Purple Patch to achieve just that is InsideTracker. After all, our physiology is chaotic. It's crazy what's going on inside of our body. But by taking a look inside and filtering it out, we can yield an action plan to get us to focus on the things that are going to yield tangible results. And the good news is that our interventions are measurable. In further and subsequent assessments, you can see whether you're yielding the performance gains that you're looking for. InsideTracker is available for you, you don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete to take part. All you need to do is head to insidetracker.com/purplepatch, that's insidetracker.com/purplepatch, and use this code Purple Patch Pro 20 that's gonna get you 20% off everything at the store. Alright, enjoy the show.
Matt Dixon 01:37
And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host, Matt Dixon. And this week, we're gonna do a robust Q&A session. The difference is, there's only one question. There's only gonna be one question and one big answer from me. And the reason for that is I recently received a nice question from a Purple Patch tri-squad athlete. The question from Ben asked whether I and the Purple Patch coaching team stay abreast of recent trends and scientific advances when it comes to developing an evolving Purple Patch training methodology. Now, he was interested in factors such as the importance of zone two training, leveraging blood lactate testing, to advance adaptations, maybe keto or fat adaptive diets to improve fat utilization, and the methods of the Norwegian athletes when it comes to high-end endurance performance. And a little close to home, he was also interested in why we at Purple Patch, tend not to put a rest day a complete day of no activity in every single week of our training programs. So the question sparked my interest. My eyebrow rose a little bit. And I must say in honesty, my first sort of reaction to it was maybe a little emotional, almost. Goodness me, doesn't even, do I consider any advances in training methodologies. We evolve more as a coaching company than any organization that I've seen, I spent my life on this stuff. But then I paused and I reflected, had a little epiphany to myself. I realized that this is an opportunity to learn, to explain a little bit about some of the principles that we come up with. So I thought, what we would do today is I can provide my answer to that question. But in doing so, I want to go beyond the answer and hopefully help you start to evolve your approach to training globally, as a time-starved athlete, so that you can ensure you not only get the results in your sport that you want but also have a positive impact on broader life. And so one big Q&A session with only one question. We talk about hard work, deep thinking, and ongoing research so that we can prescribe simple, easy-to-implement, and effective programming for time-starved athletes. That's the context that I'm going to explain my answer to it. And so thank you, Ben, for the question. This one is for you. But firstly, Barry, I know you want to play so let's do it. Yes, it's word of the week.
Matt Dixon 04:20
Folks, we're not doing Matt's News-ings this week. But I do want to sneak in a quick note about our one-to-one coaching. Because your success, no matter what is important to you, whether you're trying to cross the finish line of an Ironman, trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon, or just trying to show up a better version of yourself in life. The truth is that your success is about so much more than just a training plan. For that training plan to be effective, you need to nail all of the supporting characters, and the cast that make the star of the show shine. And so yes, your training is important. But you need to be well equipped and versed to build up positive habits in all of the other elements of performance, nailing down good prioritization of practices in sleep, ensuring that you're getting the right nutrition and fueling and hydration, and making sure that you can self manage and make smart decisions, the components that build up around. And our coaches, consider this to educate you and ensure that you are focusing on the key elements to help that training program explode into greatness. But there's more than that when you become a one-to-one coached athlete or Purple Patch. We don't just pawn you off to a singular coach, put you in a nook and cranny of Purple Patch with a coach that lives who knows anywhere with a stamp and a logo outside their chest. You're becoming a part of a team, you get access to me overseeing your program, a whole team of coaches that support one or another to collaborate and ensure that you are going to be successful, and a host of experts that we filter and give you access to ensure that you're successful in your performance journey. You become a part of a team at Purple Patch, doing what is right for you in not just your training, but in everything. And so there is not a coaching program like it, and we'd love you to be a part of it. All you need to do is reach out to info@purplepatchfitness.com we'll set up a free consultation and see if we're a good fit for you. All right with that, now, Barry, let's do Word of the Week.
06:30
We like the way he thinks seriously with a wink. It's time to take a peek. It's the Dixonary word of the week.
Matt Dixon 06:44
Yes, folks Word of the Week, and it is this week Exercise as Medicine. Now I'm going to drop the link to the research that I'm talking about in this week's Word of the Week into the show notes. So feel free to go and find it there if you want to read the article and the research, very interesting stuff. However, the focus of it is on depression and mental health challenges. They are higher than ever before. Burnout in the workplace is seismic at the moment, high stress is reported mental health challenges are huge. And I think a part of the high incidence rates of mental health challenges is the fact that there has been a reduction of stigma. And so people are more willing to talk about it. And that's a really good thing. But there's also little doubt at the same time that the influence of other various factors has seen mental health challenges start to ramp up. Now we could talk about the pandemic, we could talk about the impact of having a wholly more connected world with the stress that can emerge from the media and social media components of life. We can also even talk about increasing political polarization and the amplified occurrence of mental health challenges that emerge from all of that side of stuff. The challenges that as a society, we live in a place where the predominant solution and fix to these challenges tends to be isolated to just the prescription of drugs. Do you know that 25% of us women take some form of antidepressant once they're past the age of 40? That's pretty high, one in four. And it might not be surprising to you but recent comprehensive studies highlight the positive impact of regular exercise and mental health. A recent study showed that regular exercise was as effective as a treatment as just standalone SSRI antidepressant medication. That's amazing. I'll leave the link in the show notes, the research as I promised. Now I should note, that this research doesn't allow us to make huge steps forward. Don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, just exercise everything's going to be fine in the world. That's not a claim. We're not saying that exercise is the fix-all. I'm also not of the perspective that antidepressants are all bad. They are important tools when battling these types of components for some patients. But what these types of studies do showcase is a belief that I've observed for many years. And that's that for any situation, most people benefit from a multi-fight approach where you can implement lifestyle changes including exercise, and they can act as an important catalyst on the journey of improvement. And I believe that we should all start there and then leverage medical interventions on a case-by-case basis. In broader terms, even more so, you might not be navigating mental health challenges, but this research is empowering for you as well. Because if you're listening and you think well I'm perfectly happy. This Research still applies because regular exercise is good for our bodies. It's also good for our brain, our mood, and our happiness. And so therefore, I think that we can cross a small bridge and say that exercise and fitness as well as supporting positive habits shouldn't be viewed as an afterthought or some form of hobby that you like to do. Instead, prioritizing daily movement should be a key component, a nonnegotiable component, for you to show up the very best version of yourself, performance-ready, every day. It's going to help you bring out your best self and that's good, not just for you, but for everyone. And that is why the word of the week this week is exercise as medicine. Talking of medicating, Barry, I need some meat. Yes, indeed, sausages, please. It's time for the meat and potatoes
Matt Dixon 10:56
Yes, it is the meat and potatoes. Let's kick off the answers to this question with a little story. Not too long ago, I was listening to Walter Isaacson's book The Biography of Steve Jobs of Apple. Now, it's a great read or listen if you prefer it that way. And I highly recommend it if you have the opportunity. But in the middle to the latter stages of the book, Isaacson started to dissect the design process for Apple, particularly focusing on some of the more recent Apple products, the iPhone and the iPad. Throughout the chapter, he went into great depth about how Steve Jobs and Chief Designer Johnny Ives would approach the process, every single detail, not one piece of the experience was a shortcut. From the contours and lines, the colors, the layout of the inner boards that made up the machine, the glass, the packaging, it was an unbelievable collision of Art and Design, and high engineering. They often took almost impossible design paths with massive expense to emerge with just the right lines, just the perfect curves, the aesthetic features. The process was probably 20 times more complex and thought out than any other competitor machines. They weren't just creating utilitarian machines to connect people or provide access to information or as tools of work. They were designing experiences, they wanted people to have an emotional reaction to fall in love with the products. The output of this almost lunatic design process was always the same - elegant design, stunningly simple, easy and intuitive navigation, minimal and clean, but certainly not basic, and nothing near lazy. This is, in many ways, the backbone of Apple's enduring success, making machines for people that people can then fall in love with and use without a manual. And yes, that is at any level genius. But let's take stock. The consumer experience is simple. It's easy. The design is minimal, uncluttered, and clean, but to get there took a massive Herculean amount of effort, and work consideration - the complexity of simplicity.
Matt Dixon 13:46
This is important because I'm not Steve Jobs. However, there are some parallels between Apple's design approach and any form of highly effective coaching. Let me expand a little bit. I've guided people to the highest level of performance. One of the most successful squads of professional triathletes in the history of sports, multiple World Champions, 450 wins at podiums at the elite level. And as a head coach, my role was to organize all of the components necessary to deliver world-class performance on a sustained level. And this sounds simple, but let's consider the athletes that I was guiding. They were highly motivated and driven. They were talented and physically gifted. They were willing to work very, very hard. But they had a massive amount of competing demands. They had to manage high training loads, technical and skill development, data analytics and metrics, heavy focus on nutrition, recovery, hydration, sponsorship obligations, choices in equipment, working on their brand, and much much more. And there was no shortage, for any athlete, of the things they could focus on - countless options of where they could spread their focus, and at the same time, each of them was consistently bombarded with promises of the next great thing, shortcuts for them to achieve success, and even distractions, from approaches that were taken by their peers and competitors.
Matt Dixon 15:26
At the world-class level of any sport, there is a lot to think about, and never-ending aspects of performance that we could potentially add to the recipe. And I've seen athletes get paralyzed by this, the wealth of information, an opportunity, and hence the disbursement of focus. They would add so much into their performance recipe, that they didn't do anything well. The result was confusion, a lack of progression, dipping confidence, and ultimately performance decline. The only path that consistently delivered high performance and ultimately great results was by running all of these opportunities through a robust filter. And I labeled this, when I was working with my squad of pros, the Purple Patch filter, and in the middle of this imaginary big filter, there was in big, black Gotham font, a font that Purple Patch uses, a single question. And you know what that question was? Will it make the athlete go faster? Very simple. Sounds simple yeah? And it might be, but it's critical, to be a catalyst for success.
Matt Dixon 16:47
Now, I've told you this next story before, but let me run it through you again. Tim Reid, Tim's a lovely human, a wonderful athlete. And I got to coach him for five years. And in the early seasons, I would say that Tim was a little bit of a victim of paralysis of analysis. He tended to focus on so many factors, that his effort and commitment didn't yield consistent results, he had some good results, but it wasn't driving the performance needle. And at the start of 2016, I asked him to try a slightly evolved approach to shift the lens a little bit. And we agreed to focus on just a few fundamentals. And we ended up labeling them the basics, and I said, nail the basics. My promise was that if Tim could master these basics, the elements that we break down, he would be 95% of the way to his potential. From there, then we could consider some of the other incremental stuff. Now, before this discussion point, I'd spent a long time considering all of the areas that he could focus on. And where should we prioritize, we ended up with something beautiful, in simplicity. So I'm going to outline these pretty briefly right now.
Matt Dixon 18:10
Number one, ensure you're feeding the engine, and consume enough calories to support your training. Number two, prioritize sleep, a huge component every single time, it is your biggest performance catalyst. Number three, when I asked you to go easy, go easy. Number four, integrate strength training year-round, all the way through this season. Number five is hydrating every day well which became important. Number six, consume calories after workouts post-workout fueling, really, really critical. And number seven, finally, on the days where we said bring it, bring it. Two to three times a week we were going to have very challenging sessions and I wanted him to be wholly present for an engagement. Now, underneath each of these cute titles, these single basics, seven of them, lay a whole bunch of specific actions, and deeper context. Each of them was rooted in real substance, scientific base reasoning, and key elements that were going to yield maximum effectiveness. But in their title, laid clarity. They were memorable, they were simple, and they were actionable. And Tim, to his great credit and bravery, committed, as did the rest of the Purple Patch pro squad. We unified around a common set of practices. Every athlete felt that shared sense of purpose and mission. They held each other to account they supported one another if any of them strayed off course. And you know what happened in 2016? You've guessed it, a banner year. Tim won multiple races, but it culminated in becoming the Ironman 70.3 world champion. On the women's side. We had Holly Lawrence who was with us for most of that year, departing two months before the World Championship, but she went on to become world champion. Sam Appleton was fourth that year, and the rest of the Purple Patch squad, all achieved great performances. We had an absolute banner year of wins and podiums. Now, each one of these athletes was talented, they all worked their tails off, and they were wholly committed. But none of them enjoyed the breakthroughs because of something they added. They won because they mastered the fundamentals that drove the vast majority of success.
Matt Dixon 20:36
Now, this is a story of professional triathletes. But let's turn to the specifics of the question posed by Ben. Remember, do I and the Purple Patch coaching team stay abreast of recent trends and scientific advances when it comes to developing and evolving Purple Patch training? Well, let's think about us. The vast majority of people that we work with at Purple Patch are time-starved. And so if you're listening, you likely have a lot of competing demands in life. You've got everything under the banner of work, family, and friends and then of course, you're integrating fitness and training into that very busy and chaotic life. So for many of us, our most precious commodity that we have, is time itself. We only have so much energy to give, we have a finite amount of willpower, and a certain capacity to absorb and filter information that then we can convert into action. And the majority of your energy should be and most likely is rightfully reserved for your role at work, as well as your family and friends and then your broader life. So account executives should be spending much of their role focusing on executing their role at work. If you own a coffee shop, you should be focused on delivering great customer service, super coffee, and driving profitability. A CEO should be focused on both short and long-term prosperity and success of the organization. But guess what we focus on at Purple Patch, we spent most of our time on the cutting edge of high performance. We were obsessed originally with driving world-class athletic performance but now adapted to drive sustained high performance in sport and life. So now what we have, and we spend our days considering is a filter to get to a simple component with these new questions. Number one, still, is it going to make the athletes faster? And number two, will it help them show up performance-ready daily for everything important to them in life? So there's sort of a dual role here. But that's our filter. And that's why we spend our time right at the cutting edge of performance filtering, navigating remaining curious learning, and removing distractions and noise. Yeah, it's our responsibility at Purple Patch to do the hard yards. We need to stay abreast of every single piece of emerging science practices and approaches. We need to observe and reflect on our approach and our methodology. We need to filter through the noise quackery and all of the fake promises out of that, and we need to emerge from that process with the key aspects to provide the answers to those questions. Is it going to make the athletes faster? Will it help them show up to daily performances ready for everything important to them? From then, we package, we design, we take the key components and convert them into our relevant basics for time-starved athletes, the aspects that will help time-starved athletes improve. And the key once again, they need to be memorable, they need to be simple to understand, they need to be actionable, habit driven. And to get to these basics takes relentless ending consideration, learning, filtering, and design - deep complexity to arrive at simplicity.
Matt Dixon 24:30
This Ben is how it is done. Because your success Ben and all Purple Patch athletes will emerge from your commitment, your hard work, but also in leaning into the expertise and guidance that you are buying into. You're a Purple Patch athlete, it's great. And we are going to guide you. We take that responsibility seriously. And so interestingly, through answering the question, Ben, you, you excited me? It's great. Because many of the aspects that you're curious about are great. But interestingly, did you know that they're not really new or different, or even radical? They're recycled, as so much is, a little bit like fashion, and they're brought back to popularity, often packaged to something fresh. I am now in my third cycle of the promotion of the next frontier of human performance is blood lactate testing. I must be getting old. But as an aside, by the way, blood lactate testing, yeah, it can be valuable, it can be really helpful. But the question I have to filter through is, is it valuable for you, the time-starved athlete? Is it going to help you go faster? I come to this by looking at the research, but also having completed way more than 1000 assessments of blood lactate in my coaching life. I'm pretty well-versed in it. But does it pass our filter? Would it make you go faster? Will it help you show up in daily life, performance-ready, period?
Matt Dixon 26:08
Now I need to put the context also, through some truths here. Remember that I'm no longer filtering these components thinking around world-class performance in athletes too much because I'm not working with pros anymore. And so instead, I realized that my responsibility is working with time-starved athletes with competing demands. And the vast majority of those athletes are very far from mastering those fundamentals. They're not great yet, at self-management, navigating terrain, making smart decisions around training, executing the training as intended, going easy on the easy days, et cetera. It's just really normal. And this means that there is still a huge growth opportunity for the vast majority of athletes that were helping. Well, once they develop, and they master the basics of self-management, really high-quality training, and all of the supporting habits, it's gonna get them the results that they want. And so why would I add into that distraction, noise, and other things that may or may not provide incremental tiny results, but also may be the tipping point, where it just becomes back to the confusion, the distraction, the disbursement of focus, the loss of confidence, and ultimately, performance decline? So, it won't deliver results so often, until you've mastered the fundamentals. In the limited capacity that our time-starved athletes have, what will yield the results, and 99 times out of 100 it comes from decluttering, narrowing focus, to the fundamental but critical practices and mastering them. And I get it. You might be listening right now and you might think, great, Matt, I get it. But I'm not time-starved. Yeah well, it still applies. Because guess what, every single Pro that I worked with, when they joined Purple Patch, professional, elite world-class athletes, none of them had mastered the fundamentals. None of them knew how to genuinely execute quality training and manage their schedule. And all of us as amateurs are managing it within various other demands in life, time-starved or otherwise. And so yes, it is important to stay curious, we must remain open, and we must continue to see game-changing impacts. But make no mistake, simple and repeatable does not mean it's basic. It takes a massive amount of hard work and consideration to arrive at such a simple actionable set of basics.
Matt Dixon 28:58
And so Ben, and everyone that's listening, I hope that helps. And while I have you, I promised the top of the show I was going to talk about rest days as well. Because remember a big part of Ben's question, the second part was why do we not consistently every week integrate a rest day in our tri squad program. So it's a great question. So let me give you the context on that one just to finish up today's show. There is real value in taking a day off and turning your back on sport completely. There's real value to it. It's also important to periodically integrate any athlete two to three days in a row of lower-stress training so that we can facilitate a little bit of deeper rejuvenation, and a rebound on your system and your muscles. So there is value in rest days. And it's important to occasionally have two or three days in a row that you allow yourself to restore. Okay, now, let's talk about how we build the programming at Purple Patch. We tend to build programming for time-starved athletes in three-week cycles - week one, week two, week three, then we repeat that cycle and maybe progress some components of it, we repeat it, progressing other components to make the load a little bit greater, one more cycle and then we shift the emphasis. That's how we tend to structure it. And each week is built around a seven-day cycle. And the reason for that is that most athletes live their lives based on a seven-day cycle. So it's pretty simple. Alrighty, now that three-week structure tends to be two weeks in a row of higher demand one week where there's still good value training in there but we integrate a little less training and allow a little bit of rejuvenation to occur so that we can yield consistency. We have, within any given week of training, one, two, or three days that are high demand, similar to what we did with Tim Reid, remember, show up, and be present, this is going to be challenging. And then we have other workouts that are more supportive, still delivering high value, cardiovascular conditioning, muscular endurance, et cetera, but also allow decompression, in other words, can be soul-filling, as I like to call it. Because there's a time-starved athlete it's important not to have to show up mentally, every single day, or it turns into a part-time job. And we don't need a second job, most of us have a third job or a fourth job. And so the decompression tools have an active role, where you're getting some physiological gains, but they tend to be easier and they allow a distressing - psychological and emotional. That's a key component. Now, that helps, as a management tool as we go through that component because you get a decompression component. They are easy, they're conversational, and they help with recovery. They rejuvenate. But they also provide just enough stimulus to prevent the body from feeling flat. As I said, we frame out every week of training and seven-day cycles, because that's how we live the rest of our lives. And most of the time we try to program a single session a day. But, and here is the but, we understand that life happens to time-starved people. It's rare, that a highly successful athlete that achieves great results under Purple Patch does something every single day in their training blocks. Because life so often brings some false rest. It might be work, it might be travel, it might be Katie's soccer game, or dance recital, whatever it might be, but life happens. And that's okay. Because we deliberately build it with Flex into the program. And so what you have as an athlete is flex. Because if life happens, and you miss a day, we've got a couple of opportunities, you can just let that session go. And that's okay, particularly if it's a supporting workout. Or you can replace an upcoming supporting workout with that key workout if you're missing a big day, and you've got some flex, and even more so because we tend to try and keep it to one session a day if you need to. And you have time and the body has the energy, you can even double up on a subsequent day. So quite a few athletes might train five days a week, but a couple of days, they might do a couple of sessions in a day. It's very dependent on your life and situation. The thing is Ben and everyone, life is not a spreadsheet, it's dynamic, it's chaotic. And so we try and design the training to bring some order to the chaos, to have plenty of flex and the ability for you to self-manage and make smart decisions in real-time.
Matt Dixon 33:45
Now, all of this has become so much more effective and simple. When you shift your mindset from simply, here's my plan. This is the plan. And my success is checking the box every day. And if I get 99 out of 100, I'm gonna win. Whatever your version of winning is. That's not the case. Real effectiveness comes when you're managing that workout program within the context of life. And if you want to get effective, where you get bigger results, it's integrating the organizational effectiveness tool of our Sunday Special - every week planning all components of your life - and then integrating training into it. If you do that, which is for us at Purple Patch, a nonnegotiable practice for every Purple Patch athlete, that's where you get the catalyst. And so, Ben, and anyone else listening, if you're not currently doing the Sunday special consistently start there. Because I promise and this is my promise to you. I promise, seriously promise that if you plan your week, and you look at the landscape of all of your work demands, all of your family and life demands and then you go about out with an optimization mindset of integrating training into it is going to yield better consistency. And from that better consistency, along with some supporting habits - prioritizing sleep, post-workout fueling - some of the stuff that we talked about, even with Tim, our pro athlete, it's gonna make you faster, it's also going to make you healthier, it's going to enable you to have better energy, it's going to make you happier. And that is a really good thing. And it will only yield so much more than anything you can add in, particularly that stuff that sounds really sciency or highly specific - new fad diet, some magic tool - most of it, just put it through your filter. Is it genuinely going to make me faster? And will it maybe make me better able to show up for daily performance? Ready, Ben, I love your brother. Thank you for the question. It's a great one, I hope you have a cracking date. And thank you for being a Purple Patch athlete. And for everyone else listening, I hope that perspective is useful. Let's go fast. And let's thrive in life. With a perspective, Matt, we'll see you next time. Take care.
Matt Dixon 36:13
Guys, thanks so much for joining. 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 on YouTube and you will find it there and you can 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. 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 on 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.
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