Recommended Gear List

Recommended Bike and Run Equipment

3rd Party Training Apps: Zwift or TrainerRoad for your bike workouts (these services operate via a monthly subscription fee). Bike and run workouts are built with internal education and coaching cues directly from Matt Dixon. With a one-time connection, you can sync your workouts directly with Zwift.

Smart Trainer: Wahoo Kickr, CycleOps, or similar brands that sync with third party training apps. As an FYI: For future considerations, we will be utilizing Wahoo in our SF based center.

Tracking Device: Garmin, Suunto, Polar, or other smartwatches to monitor metrics.

Comfortable Shoes:  Lighter is not better, and shoes that minimize your muscular fatigue and damage and are most comfortable are best.  Just because a Kenyan runs close to 2 hours in a marathon wearing a certain shoe type, doesn’t make it the correct shoe choice for you.

Road Bike:  This is less a need and more a nice addition.  The road bike is a wonderful tool to improve bike interactions and skills, all of which are less intuitive on a time-trial bike.

Recommended Swim Equipment

Swimming is the place where we utilize the most additional tools.  These come in handy and are integrated into a lot of your Purple Patch swim sessions.

Swim Buoy: Eney Buoy

Snorkel: The Aquasphere

Tech Paddles: Tech Paddles

Power Paddles: Strokemaker Hand Paddles

Ankle-Strap/Band: ROKA Ankle Strap

Fins: ROKA Sports Classic Silicone Short Fins or TYR Crossblade Training Fin

Tempo Trainer: FINIS Tempo Trainer Pro

Stretch Cordz: StrechCordz with Paddles

For more information on swim workouts and the use of the recommended equipment, check out our Swim Glossary.