Steve Magness's Blog, page 14
April 18, 2022
Episode 167: What’s worth doing even if you fail? — How to be brave, take risks, stretch your comfort zone, and avoid manufacturing certainty.
Often, in racing we play it safe. We don’t take the risk. We focus on times instead of competing. In this episode, we talk about how to be brave in racing. How do we train athletes to take...
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April 11, 2022
Episode 166: Everything we got wrong coaching Women. And a few things we got right.
In this episode, we take on an important but difficult topic: the differences between coaching men and women. In this episode, we cover differences in biology and psychology, and how that impacts...
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April 4, 2022
Episode 165: The Rocky Road to the Top: Embrace the Mess of Training.
Training is messy. Progress is not linear. In this episode, we get real. We talk about the messiness of training. How do we handle setbacks, what do we do when things go wrong, and when a workout is...
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March 20, 2022
Episode 164: How much of your training should not be running?
In the 1960’s Percy Cerutty made the claim that 1/3 of your training should be non-running. Does this hold up or not as a useful heuristic? In this episode, we examine the training aspects...
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March 13, 2022
Episode 163: Biggest Bang for Your Buck: Training and Workouts that Build You Up Without Breaking You Down
What workouts give you the biggest bang for your buck? In this episode, we go through the best workouts for the mid-distance, track distance, and long distance races. What workout has the biggest...
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March 6, 2022
Episode 162: Dumbification Immunization — How to not be a dumb coach & why it’s important
How do you know what’s right? Do you buy into a particular program or coaching style, neglecting anything that runs counter? Or do you get lost in the complexity of training? In this episode,...
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February 21, 2022
Episode 161: How to become a Nuanced Thinker and level up your coaching
Too often in coaching, we get stuck. We tie ourselves to one training method, one training system. We approach things from an energy systems model, neglecting the biomechanical, neuromuscular, or...
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February 14, 2022
Episode 160: The Down: The missing ingredient to your training
What do you do when an athlete is headed in the wrong direction, when their performance doesn’t match up with their training? You give them a down week. This oft-neglected component to training...
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February 7, 2022
Episode 159: The Art and Science of Workout Design
How do we desing workouts? Designing workouts is something we all have to do, but there’s a science to it. In this episode, we go through how manipulating rest, interval length, speed, and more...
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January 31, 2022
Episode 158: Positive Illusions- How they can hurt or help performance
In this episode, we look at some of our cognitive biases that can help or hurt our performance. From optimism bias to our illusion of control, how does our psychology impact our performance....
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