Win Cycle | Nail The Basics - How Elite Performers Sustain High Performance
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Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast! On this episode, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon, host of the Purple Patch Podcast, discusses the Win Cycle program, designed to help leaders and teams achieve consistent performance. He emphasizes the importance of "nailing the basics" for high performance, drawing from his experience coaching elite triathletes. Dixon highlights key habits, such as the "Sunday Special" for reflection and planning, consistent fueling after training, adequate sleep, and regular strength training. He criticizes performance trends lacking a scientific basis, such as blood type diets and bioresonance devices, and warns against the OMAD diet for its nutrient gaps and energy instability. Dixon advocates for a simple, science-backed approach to build a performance-based layer for sustained high performance.
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Episode Timecodes:
:00-1:35 Purple Patch Promo
2:05-3:40 Intro
3:49-4:32 Start of Meat and Potatoes
4:36-10:00 Pro Tri Squad Story Nail The Basics
10:30-11:30 Intro of the Basics
11:30-17:04 What are the Basics?
15:07-30:55 Distracting Trends
31:35-end Build a Performance Base Layer
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Transcription
Matt Dixon 00:00
Matt, Hey folks. Matt Dixon here, host of the Purple Patch podcast, and of course, the win cycle podcast, which is under the umbrella of Purple Patch, I am the founder of Purple Patch fitness. Before we dive into today's episode, I will offer you a quick invitation of sorts. If you're a leader or you're a part of a team and you're looking to unlock more consistent performance across work and life. Let me give you something to consider. What if your team didn't just manage all their competing demands and, of course, the bucket of load of stress that we all have to navigate, but they actually met those demands and thrived through it? What if they could show up, energize, focus, resilient on demand. That's what win cycle is all about. It's our performance coaching program built for the modern workplace, and it's designed to help leaders and teams create predictable, repeatable cycles of winning, and that turns out that it makes things more fun and, of course, more productive. We offer keynotes, Team workshops, coaching programs that are rooted in the same principles that I've used to guide world class athletes and time starved executives. If you're curious about bringing me in to speak or teaming up with our win cycle coaching crew for some custom workshops, feel free to reach out. We'd love to connect. It's very simple. Just ping us. Info@purplepatchfitness.com that's info@purplepatchfitness.com It turns out winning is fun, and we think that your team deserves more of it, all right, so we're going to dive into things today. It's a cracker of an episode. I give you the Purple Patch podcast. Win cycle edition. Cheers. 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 02:04
Welcome to the win cycle podcast. Yes, the Purple Patch podcast, but a win cycle edition as ever, I am your host, Matt Dixon, performance coach to world class athletes and of course, time starved executives, and if you are leading in today's environment where pressure is relentless and clarity is rare. Well, let me tell you this today. The theme of today's show you don't need more complexity. What you need instead is a system. This episode is called nailing the basics. And what I really intend to unpack here are the real secrets to showing up, performance ready every single day, and having the capacity to up level when the demand and we're in this environment right now, in case you hadn't noticed, the demand calls for it. Here's the big idea, performance doesn't come from doing more. It comes from consistently doing what matters most. Now I'm going to share how stripping away some of the complexity instead of actually adding more, will unlock results. It unlocks results for elite athletes, and I've got some storytelling around that. But of course, as well, high performing executives, this is your blueprint to have more energy, greater resilience and a rhythm that supports performance every single day. It helps you, your team, your organization, get into win cycles. Ah, now you understand the name and so without further ado, as we always do on this show, let's get going. We host the meat and potatoes.
Matt Dixon 03:47
Yes, the meat and potatoes. We are going to talk about nailing the basics, a core Purple Patch mantra. And I need to tell you a story to begin, because, like almost everything in the win cycle program, it was really born out of elite sport, world class sport. So rather than just diving in today's working environment and trying to create some solutions for you, I want to ground us in a story, and it is a story of really how nail the basics that phrase that we love at Purple Patch became one of our mantras. I want to take you back to elite triathlon, where my coaching journey really began. Triathlon is an individual sport. Make no bones about it, swim, bike, run as fast as you possibly can. The winner gets all the spoils. It's really you against the clock. And when I first began coaching, I was a lab guy. My background is clinical physiology. I have a master's degree in it, and we did the full battery of testing on every single athlete. It was VO, two Max assessments, blah. Are lactate assessments. I can't tell you how many lactate curves that I've read, specificity, focus, training, all science, all structure and yeah, it was useful. But eventually I realized that the biggest differentiator wasn't actually physiological. It was more cultural. See, I launched the Purple Patch pro squad. I had a polarizing methodology when it came to training endurance athletes. I wanted them to build a platform of health readiness every single day. And I was coaching every single athlete as an individual athlete. After all, they had differing goals, different levels of development. They were male, female, they're all over the place. So I treated everyone as their own special person that had highly Here's the word, specific needs, and we tried to assess every part of it through throwing science at them. But ultimately the pro squad came into play because I was having challenges having each of the athletes adhere to some of the more basic behaviors that I thought was so, so important to indoctrinate on an everyday basis, to help build that platform. And it was really varying how much adoption I actually got across the group of individuals. And so I thought, we'll take a team approach. It wasn't really done with any foresight, apart from, I need to get these folks to behave as a group. And so we developed a group of world class athletes who trained as a team. And to be part of it, you had to commit to a shared set of behaviors. We had consistent habits. We had them attend regular training camps. We had them shared review processes where they had to consistently reflect. We even had a mentorship program where the senior athletes didn't view the incoming and very fast junior athletes as threads to their sponsorship money or their prize money or anything else, but instead as opportunities to help them, mentor new talent, to help them grow, which not only, of course, helped the junior athletes, but ended up helping the senior athletes too. And you know what happened when we took this team approach? Took a little bit of time, but we ended up thriving, not just in results, but in other areas as well, cohesion, resilience, consistency across the group, and that's the landscape here. But I need to tell you about a week in Scottsdale, Arizona, and that was a time where almost everything changed. We call it the desert camp wake up court. We had 12 of our pros in attendance, ready for some desert heat, big volume training. And at the time, the endurance world was shifting under our feet. It's full of young sciences, nutrition, a pretty young science, technical, technological advances, etc. And we also found ourselves where the broader world was also shifting. This was in the late 2008 2009 maybe into the 2000 10s. Social media was starting to become a thing. It was starting to build and boom, we had a host of new technology, GPS watches, power meters, becoming very, very norm as a part of the elite athlete experience. We had recovery tools, ice baths, cryotherapy supplements, and for two days, those first two days of camp, all I can remember is the non stop questions from almost every one of the pros, should I try this new supplement? How about this view diet hack?
Matt Dixon 11:02
Would this gadget make me even faster on day three, I'll never remember I'll never forget it. I was standing in the driveway of our big house, and I looked across these pros that had inundated myself and Paul, my assistant coach, question after question, What shall I add? Shall I add? Shall I add? Shall I add? And I looked at their bikes, and of the 12 bikes standing there in a driveway getting ready to go on a big bike ride, 11 of the 12 of them were filthy. They were caked in desert dust, little bit of clay and mud. The basics were clearly been ignored. We have one of the saying how you chop carrots is how you live your life. Well, these bikes were dirty, and there was an epiphany that occurred to me, these athletes were failing to nail the basics. I stopped before we even started the ride. I stopped the session. I pulled the plug. No ride. Let's go into the living room. We're going to have a chat as we sat down as a group, I remember the words you're asking me what to add, but not one of you in this room is nailing the fundamentals of performance in. In that day, we birthed our mentra. For us to be successful, I want you to nail the basics. It went on to become our identity. What are the basics? Well, for these pro athletes, it was not over complicated. And remember, we're talking about the pinnacle of world class performance. Here's what I asked them to do. Number one, the Sunday special. We've talked about it on this show before, before you kick into any given week and start living in the chaos with the massive competing demands, I want you to pause reflect on the week before. What was good, what didn't go well, what do I need to apply this coming week and then plan your week ahead so that you can kick off into Monday in execution mode, not in a reaction mode. And this would meat mean for the pros understanding their training. What were the sessions that were really important to show up for, mentally and physically, the big performance needle drivers and what were the ones, equally, that they needed to actually be a bit more low key on and make sure and ensure that they would go really, really easy and start to have an understanding of their landscape. But they also needed to plan their downtime, their recovery, their strength, their prehab, their eating patterns, their post workout fueling, making sure the pantry was full. They had a lot of competing demands in their life, and they wanted to get organized so that they could gain control. Now this is a habit that we integrate into every time starved executive, particularly those that are looking to accomplish big things in sport. At the same time, we integrate this as a core habit of Purple Patch. But it was born out of the Purple Patch pros, the Sunday special is what we still name it to this day. A second thing that was just a basic was every single time you train, you need to fuel following training. Very simple. It sounds pretty basic to me, carbohydrates, protein, every time, within 30 minutes a third, making sure that over the course of the day, they're getting enough calories and the right type of calories to support their training load. This is something that tends to be a big risk for many, many athletes, they don't realize how much calories they actually need to support their training load and their health. In other words, we wanted to avoid any chronic restriction. I wanted them to sleep like a pro, seven to nine hours every single night, quality and duration. Set yourself up for success. I wanted them to commit to year round strength training and mobility. I wanted to ensure that on easy days, they really did go easy, because so many athletes that are ambitious go too hard. I wanted them to hydrate daily, three liters outside of the hydration that they're consuming during exercise, and I wanted them to maintain their equipment. But here was my promise. Here was my promise to those pros on that day, if we over the course of that year as a team, down to the individual, can nail these basics, where they can become practices and habits that happen automagically, without thought, and we do them every single day. My promise is that they would be 95% to their potential. That's a staggering number, and it was one that was pulled out of my rear. But ultimately, it's true, they would be 95% of the way there, and once they mastered those where they just did it on a day to day basis, then they were in a place off of this huge foundation of performance consistency and predictability. Then they were in a place to layer on advanced strategies.
Matt Dixon 13:44
So what does that story got to do with you? Well, you might not be training for the Hawaii Ironman World Championships, but the parallels are crystal clear. If you're a founder, a managing director, leading in Division, you are under immense pressure. In fact, in many ways, you are just like a pro athlete, just like a pro you have to perform on demand. You have to lead with clarity. You have to manage change, because change is a big part of it, and you have to show up your very best with energy every single day. And yet, in my experience, so many leaders are drowning in inputs. They're chasing shortcuts. They're over complicating their performance system. And the result of this is not a win cycle. The result of it is low grade fatigue. In fact, I see scattered focus and burnout. They're trying everything and ultimately kind of getting nowhere. And the crazy thing is, a lot of leaders don't even realize that's happening. They're working, working, working. They're throwing brute force at the problem. But are they truly being. Been effective. So there is a pivot for leaders in today's workplace to really excel in a sustainable way, and that sustained word becomes an important one, because that's what it's take. We all know there's no shortcut to success. There's no way of hacking through things we all care about how we live our lives, how we show up, but also for the quality of the life that we have beyond work. And so it's a call to action in order to get sustained high performance. Stop trying to optimize around the edge, master your foundation first, we might say, nail the basics. Now there are performance trends that serve only to distract us, and let's not pretend that this is a new problem. For the last 15 to 20 years, we've seen wave after wave of revolutionary trends, as they call them. Most Promising, huge gains are unlocks, but ultimately delivering minimal value, especially when the basics are not in place. I can't tell you how many athletes, executives, even doctors, have come into me and ask if one of these hacks was maybe that missing piece in their performance puzzle. My response to them. You can't sprinkle superfoods over a broken system and expect high performance. Here's a rundown in today's show, just to ground ourselves, because as we live our lives and these things come through and they slowly get forgotten, we often fail to pause and reflect and go hang on these broken promises, these hacks, they evaporate, but ultimately they accumulate and they lead us to distraction. And so what I thought we would do is just go back a little bit with some of the consistent trends that maybe took up some of our bandwidth, some of our attention, and then got evaporated. But let's investigate the actual impact that they provided on your performance. Here's some that I just selected at random for you. Number one,
Matt Dixon 17:20
try and be courteous when I do this, folks, the blood type diet. What was the big claim there? All right, a key is supposedly eating according to your blood type. It was a sure pathway to improve your health, your digestion, your energy. It was a great unlock. The reality it had absolutely zero scientific basis. A 2013 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found absolutely zero evidence that blood type had any effect on health outcomes when it matched with your diet type. Any improvement that people felt was not due to blood type alignment, it's just a fact. So, yes, improving your diet helps, if it provides some attention there, great, but matching to your blood type, it's not a thing, and that's why you see it evaporate. How about bio resonance devices, or those energy bracelets? Do you remember those things, these gadgets tune your energy and your energy fields so that you can improve your sleep or your focus or your recovery? What's the reality here pseudoscience? There is no peer reviewed research that supports the mechanisms or outcomes claimed by these devices. Most positive results are either anecdotal at very best, mostly placebo, and the placebo in itself is something that is peer reviewed and is really powerful, but that thing around your wrist doesn't do much for you. If it sounds like science fiction, it probably is. You're better off investing in real sleep and movement on a day to day to day basis. And you might say at this point, yeah, but what's the harm? If I think about this, the harm is that it distracts you, it keeps you on the edges. It's expensive, but also it tends to because we only have so much capacity, particularly if you're time starved to really master these basics. And every single time that I've met someone that plays on the edges, looking for these incremental gains, seldom have they got a rock solid foundation in place. What about detox teas, juice cleanses, flashing tox, toxins, resetting your system? This is a huge wave of trendiness, but there's a reality to this. You have a detox system. It's in your body. It's called liver and kidney. They're already there in 2015 a review of the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics concluded that there is absolutely. No clinical evidence supporting commercial detox diets for toxing, elimination or sustainable weight loss. It's pseudoscience. Cleansing your body doesn't require herbal tea. It requires consistency in sleep when a lot of this stuff occurs, really good hydration to help cellular health and positive habits building around nutrition. That's it. If you do that, and you can probably remove some alcohol from your diet, you're going to get those benefits. How about alkaline water and alkaline diets? This is a big one, and that relatively recently, from this shifting your body's pH can prevent disease and boost energy. That's the big claim. The reality your body strictly regulates your pH in the same way that it regulates your temperature. It's no different to this regardless of what you eat or you drink. A 2012 systematic review of the Journal of environmental and public health confirmed that there is no scientific evidence that alkyne alkaline water meaningfully impacts cellular function or improves performance. And if you actually pause and understand just the very first little element of human physiology, you would just remove it as a consideration. It's clearly bunk. Instead of this, do something really simple, eat a ton of fiber, lots of vegetables, reduce your processed foods, not because of pH, but because it works as a platform of health. And here's one that many listeners will be currently spending a lot of money on right now, super foods and adaptogenic blends. There's a whole industry out there, a multi billion dollar industry around this one scoop a day, and it can replace your vegetables, it can boost your immunity, it can enhance your physical and mental performance. You know what's mental those claims, some of the blends may contain some beneficial compounds, that's true, greens, atrogens, probiotics, but most of these are underdosed, pretty poorly absorbed, because it's not just what goes in, actually what's going to solve and a lot of them are based on hype rather than real world results. These things are not bad. It's not going to harm you, but they're not your foundation. They're not going to replace really good platform of eating with great foods and enough of it. They're not going to be the antidote to try and overcome the lack of movement in your body or prioritizing sleep or remaining hydrated in the day. And if you pause right now, do you truly consistently get good quality of sleep most nights? Do you ensure that you keep the body really hydrated through the day? Do you move your body every single day in a structured and progressive manner? If your meals are erratic, your sleep is broken and you haven't exercised in three days, I tell you something, a scoop of powdered Skimm your spinach ain't gonna help you. It's not gonna save you, and that's the truth. Now, these trends, as I say, they're not dangerous. It's not a thing here where I'm telling you what to do. Feel free to adopt all of those. But let me tell you this, in my experience, they become distracting. They pull your attention away from what actually moves your needle. And in a world where we all have 510, 1520, 150 things to try and execute every single week, not just across the workplace, but trying to integrate these habits, try and be present for our family and friends. We don't need to act more. In fact, when I'm interviewed about the success that we had with our professional athletes, I always answer it in the same way, our success was based on what we removed rather than what we added. And we're not alone in this. I could list off without knowing any of them personally. I could list off multiple world class athletes, Rory McIlroy, because he just won the masters. LeBron, James Renaldo, Serena Williams, Simone, bars, I promise you that all of their lives these great champions are built around basics, fundamental habits and yeah, they might layer on a few little gadgets, toys and supplements, but that's not the bedrock of their success, and they have more capacity to add that on, because this is their world. They don't have a regular job, but at the heart of this, every one of these athletes will tell you that their life is pretty repetitive, pretty mundane and rooted in nailing the basics. I want to give you one more and I want to do a little bit of a deeper dive into this. You. Because this is one that I consistently get asked about by athletes, and particularly folks that are on the edge of performance, driven quite often in tech, and have high influence from many of the performance based experts that are out there in the podcast world. Omad. What is omad. You might have heard of this, one meal a day.
Matt Dixon 25:24
Now, to be clear, I want to say this before I dig into this, I'm not anti discipline. I think it's important to have rigor around it. I'm not anti fasting. There is some elements of fasting that, for some people, is really beneficial, and in some cases, time restricted, eating 1212, or whatever it might be, could be a part of a healthy structure. As an athlete. It's very, very difficult to build a case for that, and it tends to lead to greater habits. But let's just talk more broadly outside of the athletic scope. There is some component here, but for high performing people, athletes, leaders, executives, juggling stress, travel, family. I think omad one meal a day is a big mismatch, and I want to break it down a little bit. Here's some of the challenges here. Firstly, nutrient gaps are very, very real. There's some science behind this, it's nearly impossible today to get your full days requirement of protein, fiber, essential fats, vitamins such as magnesium, vitamin D, B, 12, iron, etc, in a single setting, it's almost impossible. The 2021 review and frontiers of nutrition concluded that it carried a major risk of micronutrient inadequacy when those calories matched, your body just can't absorb it in one meal a day. In fact, a 2012 Journal of Nutrition found that fewer meals led to deficiencies in key nutrients across broad swaths of the purple population. There's a coaching reality here. I just don't think that you can perform a high level on a long term basis. When your level is empty. You need consistent, distributed fueling so that you can repair, recover, adapt and grow. It's important a second big area that we have with one meal a day, glucose spikes therefore leading to energy crashes. It's big science in this when you spread out meals to become really frequent, they tend to cause bigger blood glucose swings. 2007 study in metabolism found that omad style eating led to higher fasting glucose and poorer insulin response. Insulin is your managing hormone that tries to keep the body level on blood glucose, similar to when we talked about with pH in the blood. So when you have three meals a day spaced out, you tend to have more stable energy, or at least more stable blood glucose. So we want to maintain that participants in that study reported hunger, irritability, fatigue and mood swings. Energy predictability matters, and it matters for you as an executive and a leader, you need to shop sharp, you need to have predictable energy. You don't want to crash the third big challenge I have, and this is a huge one for competing athletes, but also time starved athletes and folks that care about their performance and people that are exercising every single day impaired muscle recovery. There's swaths of research around this news. National Society of sports nutrition recommends 20 to 40 grams of protein every three to four hours if you're going to maximize recovery and adaptations. So in other words, not condensing your protein into one big bout, it's going to minimize your recovery. So if you're someone that's looking to train for a marathon or looking to just improve their longevity or get ready for an Ironman or something like that, diluting it down to one meal a day, you simply can't get the protein doses spread out in the optimal fashion in order to maximize adaptations. So you're working really hard, you're doing these really hard intervals, and you're minimizing adaptation and recovery. It just doesn't make sense. You can't adapt to stress if your Marvel muscles never get the raw materials, they need to rebuild number four. And you know, here at Purple Patch, we care about long term, what long term sustainability? It breaks down with these types of omad approaches. It's rigid. This rigidity often leads to disordered eating. It leads to binge cycles, burnout. There's plenty of research that supports this, and that's not fun. It's not good. In fact, the research around eating behaviors links fasted eating in the short term to an increased risk of emotional.
Matt Dixon 29:23
Dysregulation and food obsession, orthorexia, if you've heard of that, an obsession around clean eating. A lot of these behaviors are born and of creating cages and rigid, inflexible structures around eating, the coaching reality is that if you can't maintain a really simple pattern of eating habits and practices through work, stress, travel, family obligations. It's not really a system. It's a crash that's waiting to happen. Ultimately, in this little deep dive, the truth is that recovery is under supported. Consistency is unsustainable. It's just not healthy. And guess what? It's not that fun. Perhaps even worse, if you're vain, if you're someone like me, you're kind of a weirdo. When you don't need to be one, you have an illusion of control. And perhaps that's a part of it. Now, it's not evil, but ultimately it's a blunt tool that's just ramped in hype. It promotes something that I really detest as a coach, black and white thinking a shortcut mindset, some weird illusion of placing yourself under so much control, but it ignores the true physiological needs that all high performers share. You're not a monk, you're not living in a monastery. You're a leader who's trying to show up, deliver and perform consistently. And for that, you need rhythm, you need fuel, you need flexibility. So the real solution for you is just build a performance base layer, a big part of our win cycle program. This is what every high performer that I've ever worked with has done successfully. Whether I'm talking about a world class athlete, whether I'm talking about a C suite executive, they all share it. It's this foundation of health. And guess what? It's really simple. It's not about living your life in a really rigid, structured way. And you've got to realize this. Take a step back. You've got limited bandwidth. You need to deliver consistently. So your edge is not going to be built around the periphery. It's going to be built on focusing on the boulders, not on the sand. Get that right. So let's join the dots back to that story that we started with, and nail your own basics. Organization first, quite often, the unlock of effectiveness. Every Sunday with a proactive rhythm, reflect on your last week across all of the key components of life, family and friends, kids and all of that side of stuff. What went well? What didn't go well? How did I coordinate with my partner, everything that you did at work, what was successful, what was what was achieved, that little perspective is really good. Reflection is powerful. And then you can be in a place to say, what do I need to get done this week? And then with my sport and my habits. And then you look ahead, and you start with life, integrating all the things that you want to organize, get them on a calendar, whether it's a piece of paper, whether it's a Google spreadsheet, whatever it might be, then integrate the key mission around work. You can't get everything done. You'll never get everything done that you need to get done. You're a busy executive. But get the things that are most important prioritize. And then with everything left over, you integrate great eating, appropriate sleep, proper exercise in there, and dial it in. That's how you get control. That's how you can be effective. And then layer on the non negotiable, if you want all of the promises that all of these fads give, you start with sleep, a foundation for cognitive function, mood, strong immune system and health fuel your body. Real food, consistent meals. Don't skip them. Daily Motion, move the body, however simple. For some folks, that means walking every single day. For others, it's going on a structured and progressive training towards climbing Kilimanjaro or getting ready for an Iron Man. Make sure you've got some nervous system recalibration by some downtime, recovery. Step away from the challenges. Build strength. It's really good for your posture. It's good for your body composition. It's great for your energy and cognitive function. And all of this stuff is backed by science, countless science, everything, sleep, stress plus rest equals growth, said Steve Magnus and Brad starburg. There is so much science here if you want to care and you want to listen to some performance experts that provide their recommendations through real, robust science. Matt Walker in sleep, Dr Chris Winter in sleep, Brad starburg, Steve Magnus, Alex Hutchinson, these are the folks that are on the leading edge, that are giving stuff that is grounded in smart sim. Purple practices. So here's the thing, complexity, it's seductive. Simplicity. It's effective.
Matt Dixon 35:10
When you know your basics, you unlock greater energy, clearer thinking, greater performance, resilience and a system that is easy to integrate and support you every single day. So when we leave this episode this week, I want you to do a few things for me first, before you go into next week, run a Sunday special for yourself. Map your week, prioritize things and see what you can remove, and then pick one habit that you mastered this week. Is it going to be consistent and really good quality sleep? Are you going to lock in and make sure that you consume two to three liters of hydration every day? Are you going to get organized and make sure that you take at least eight to 10,000 steps every single day if you're more sedentary or you're leaning on that, what's going to be your one thing? And then at the end of the week, reflect what went well? Did I nail my little goal for the week? Did I master a fundamental What do I need to adjust and what I'm going to add from here? And that's how you build a little mini victory. And when you link that mini victory with won the week following the one the week following, slowly you begin this magic word, what is it? Transformation? That's the unlock for everybody. We're just getting started. That's how you start to find at least the physical side of your win cycle. I'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.
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Win Cycle, Purple Patch, performance coaching, elite athletes, high performance, resilience, energy management, basics, training habits, recovery, nutrition, sleep, stress management, leadership, team workshops