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Episode 84: Finding Your Fatal Flaw That is Holding You Back

What holds you back? What keeps you from performing to the best of your ability? That’s the topic of this weeks On Coaching Podcast with Magness & Marcus. We dive into identifying and then...



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Introducing: The Scholar Membership Coaching Program

I’d like to introduce a program that I’m now offering. An opportunity to join a small group of coaches looking to get better at what they do: coaching. A mentor is indispensable. They...



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Episode 83: Breaking Through- The Reality of the Ups and Downs of Performance

Breakthroughs. It’s what keeps many of us going. The knowledge (and hope) that a leap in performance is just around the corner. But what do performance breakthroughs look like? Are there signs...



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Uncertainty: Why You Need to Add it to Your Workouts

When we venture down to our local track and prepare for our evening interval workout, we know what the workout is going to be down to how many intervals we are going to run, how fast, and how much...



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Episode 82: How Do You Define Success in Workouts and Races?

In this weeks episode of On Coaching, we tackle how to define success (or failure) in workouts and races. Far too often we operate in a time or performance framework. We judge a workout based on...



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What Holds Us Back from Performing to Our Capabilities? Our Self.

When it comes to performing at just about any task, what holds us back isn’t our coach or teacher. It’s not our training and practice. It’s often ourselves. When we are in the middle of a...



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The Simple Principle of Training

There’s a simple message that I learned from a grad school professor, Charlie Casserly, about coaching. Learn a lot but then simplify. People often use the old coaching adage of “keep it...



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The Pre-Race Moment: Taking Advantage of where Psychology and Biology Intersect

I first came across Dave Hamilton’s work when presenting at a conference put on by the Seattle Sounders. At the time, he worked with USA field hockey, after serving a similar role with British field...



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The Blame Game: How our reaction to failure influences future performance

  Think back to a recent poor performance. What was the cause? Maybe you were sick, had poor sleep leading up to the race, overcooked the workouts leading up to the race, or simply ‘gave in’...



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The Simple Principle of Training: Build, Maintain, Connect

Training is Simple: Are you Building, Maintaining, or Connecting? That car you have sitting in your garage is a complicated piece of machinery. If you aren’t a “car guy” you couldn’t even imagine how...



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