Purple Patch Podcast

If you care about performance, if you want to understand the mechanics of training, if you’re invested in optimizing your training returns to yield the best adaptations, then this episode is assuredly for you. Matt Dixon welcomes a conversation with Exercise Physiologist, Dr. Stephen Seiler, a living legend in the world of Sports Science and Training Methodology. After unpacking Dr. Seiler's background and journey to becoming the preeminent Sports Scientist, they dig right in on a variety of topics and myths related to performance. The premise behind his polarized approach to training Season planning and how it is the most important thing an athlete can do, but with a caveat that sometimes planning is futile Dialing in the prescription of training and the mistakes athletes and coaches make when drawing up the training recipe Dr. Seiler's definition of stress and why our body's ability to perform diminishes in stress Finding Control in Calm and Chaos His Trinity of Training Perspectives Quick hit