Magness & Marcus on Coaching

By Steve Magness

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Coaches Steve Magness and Jon Marcus team up to bring you an insider's view on coaching. Taking you inside the thoughts and conversations that usually occur behind the scenes. They bring a diverse background having both worked with athletes at the collegiate and professional level. They hope to bring a mixture of science, old-fashioned wisdom, and a touch of philosophy to help understand the process of coaching and maximizing endurance performance. For more information visit www.ScienceOfRunning.com

Episode Date
240: The Science of Zone 2: Why it’s misunderstood and how to apply it successful in your training.
Apr 15, 2024
239: The Science of Overuse injuries and rehabilitation for distance runners.
Apr 08, 2024
238: When workouts don’t work: The art of the audible
Apr 01, 2024
237: Medium Dig Cycle: When and why to purposefully dig a hole in training.
Mar 11, 2024
236: Hard work vs. Overtraining: Finding the Sweet Spot for Optimal Adaptation:
Mar 04, 2024
235: The science of Flow states: How to turn it on and recapture it when it’s gone.
Feb 26, 2024
234: The Science of Soviet Training Methods: A look back at the history of getting in shape.
Feb 12, 2024
233: Traits of a champion: Why some are better than rest
Feb 05, 2024
232: Defining the Win: How to stay on track, have success, and have fun doing it.
Jan 29, 2024
231: The Athlete’s Hierarchy of Needs. Getting the basics down first
Jan 22, 2024
230: Coaching the Modern Athlete: The Role of a Coach
Jan 15, 2024
229: Modern Coaching: Ways to Promote Transformation in a Transactional Environment
Jan 01, 2024
228: Before and After the Key to Maximizing your Workouts
Dec 18, 2023
227: Peeling Back the Layers of Modern Coaching: Manager, Mentor, Teacher
Dec 04, 2023
226: The Science of Middle Distance Training: Understanding HIIT
Nov 27, 2023
Episode 225: The Magic is in the Man/Woman, Not the Miles.
Nov 13, 2023
Episode 224: Anxiety creep: How to fight back, take ownership, and thrive in training and on race day.
Oct 30, 2023
Episode 223: The Science of Drive: How to Get Better and Become the Best
Oct 23, 2023
Episode 222: What Greatness Really Looks Like: The Characteristics that Drive Elite Performance
Oct 16, 2023
Episode 221: PEAK WHEN IT COUNTS: Developing Mental Toughness
Oct 09, 2023
Episode 220- Becoming a Great Coach: The Art of Managing Workouts
Oct 02, 2023
#219- Managing Change and Uncertainty: Injuries, Going from HS to College, Retirement, and So Much More
Sep 25, 2023
Episode 218- Managing Fatigue: Understanding Glycogen Depletion
Sep 21, 2023
Episode 217: Dedicated vs. Serious: Difference Between Real and Fake Excellence
Sep 12, 2023
Episode 216: Winning culture: Building it, Keeping it, Maintaining it
Aug 29, 2023
Episode 215: The difference between direction and magnitude of training adaptation
Aug 22, 2023
Episode 214: The Science of the Injury Cycle.
Aug 14, 2023
Episode 213: Cross-Country Workout and Trouble Shooting Guide
Jul 31, 2023
Episode 212: Wickets for Runners
Jul 24, 2023
Episode 211: Traditional workouts reimagined as Flux Training
Jul 17, 2023
Episode 210: Adapting Flux Training for Cross-Country
Jul 10, 2023
Episode 209: Getting Started and Staying Fresh. A guide for brand new and seasoned coaches.
Jun 12, 2023
Episode 208: Freaks of Nature: The Best are Different
Jun 05, 2023
Episode 207: Instant Offense: Things you can do today to be better tomorrow
May 29, 2023
Episode 206: Resiliency: Bounce Back after you bomb!
May 22, 2023
Episode 205: Risk Tolerance: What is it and how to build it?
May 15, 2023
Episode 204: Polarized Training vs. Moderate Intensity Training: When, Where, and Why for each?
Apr 24, 2023
Episode 203: Do What Works and Don’t Do What Doesn’t!
Apr 17, 2023
Episode 202: Genius Revealed: Igloi- The Master Coach You Know Nothing About
Apr 10, 2023
Episode 201: Establishing Culture and Setting Boundaries
Mar 27, 2023
Episode 200: Experimenting On Ourselves As Coaches
Mar 20, 2023
Episode 199: Winning the Self-Improvement Game
Mar 13, 2023
Episode 198: Mastering the Art of People. How to Successfully Navigate Working with Different Personality Types
Feb 27, 2023
Episode 197: The Finishing Kick: How to Develop It
Feb 20, 2023
Episode 196: Starting from Scratch. How to Grow a Successful Program from the Ground Up!
Feb 13, 2023
Episode 195: The Art and Science of Speed Endurance Workouts
Feb 06, 2023
Episode 194: Champions in The Making- Winners are everywhere. They just need coaching.
Jan 23, 2023
Episode 193: General Vs. Specific Training?
Jan 16, 2023
Episode 192: You Don’t Need As Much Vo2Max Work as You Think!
Jan 09, 2023
Episode 191: Strengthening Your Coaching Weakness
Jan 02, 2023
Episode 190: See God Workouts: Reckless or Indispensable
Nov 28, 2022
Episode 189: The Norwegian Model of Lactate Threshold Training
Nov 21, 2022
Episode 188: Updating Outdated Coaching Ideas
Nov 14, 2022
Episode 187: The Power of the Barbell Strategy: Why protecting against the downside will protect the upside
Oct 24, 2022
Episode 186: The New Laws of Lactate Dynamics and Its Implications for Training
Oct 17, 2022
Episode 185: Marathon Training: Surveying the Little Things That Can Add Up to Big Results
Oct 10, 2022
Bonus Episode: The Mike Smith Tapes- Part 1
Sep 28, 2022
Episode 184: Fitness Measurement Fallacy
Sep 19, 2022
Episode 183: The Secrets to Becoming a Great Coach
Sep 12, 2022
Episode 182: What We Learned.
Sep 05, 2022
Episode 181: Flux Training: The Magic Bullet Workout?
Aug 22, 2022
Episode 180: Avoiding Training Dead Ends: Methods to Restoring the Winning Balance
Aug 15, 2022
Episode 179: The 10 Timeless Guiding Principles of Distance Running Training
Aug 08, 2022
Episode 178: Running Half Truths: Advice to Be Ignored
Aug 01, 2022
Episode 177: Sympathetic Overdrive- How to Get Out of Stressing Out!
Jul 18, 2022
BONUS: Sink or Swim, Survive or Thrive
Jul 14, 2022
Episode 176: Individualizing Training in Larger Settings
Jul 11, 2022
Episode 175: Fast Losers-Racing vs. Time Trialing
Jul 04, 2022
Episode 174: How to Do Hard Things: The Art of Suffering
Jun 20, 2022
Episode 173: The Difference Between Extraordinary and Mediocre
Jun 13, 2022
Episode 172: The Importance of Leaving Room to Grow
Jun 06, 2022
Episode 171: The Headcase phenomenon: Stop Blaming Athletes for Poor Performance
May 31, 2022
Episode 170: Everyone is an Outlier
May 16, 2022
Episode 169: Developing Performance Flexibility: How to prepare adaptive athletes to deliver when it counts
May 09, 2022
Episode 168: The Dunning-Krueger Effect on Steroids: How a Narrow World View Holds You and Your Athletes Back
May 02, 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.
Apr 18, 2022
Episode 166: Everything we got wrong coaching Women. And a few things we got right.
Apr 11, 2022
Episode 165: The Rocky Road to the Top: Embrace the Mess of Training.
Apr 04, 2022
Episode 164: How much of your training should not be running?
Mar 21, 2022
Episode 163: Biggest Bang for Your Buck: Training and Workouts that Build You Up Without Breaking You Down
Mar 14, 2022
Episode 162: Dumbification Immunization — How to not be a dumb coach & why it’s important
Mar 07, 2022
Episode 161: How to become a Nuanced Thinker and level up your coaching
Feb 21, 2022
Episode 160: The Down: The missing ingredient to your training
Feb 14, 2022
Episode 159: The Art and Science of Workout Design
Feb 07, 2022
Episode 158: Positive Illusions- How they can hurt or help performance
Jan 31, 2022
Episode 157: The Floundering Athlete: Ways to Reengage them and Reinvigorate their Performance
Jan 24, 2022
Episode 156: Does what you’re measuring actually matter?
Jan 17, 2022
Episode 155: Getting the Most Out of People: How to inspire, encourage, and sustain excellence
Dec 20, 2021
Episode 154: The Ultimate Coach: A little bit rebel, a little bit scientist.
Dec 13, 2021
Episode 153: Athlete Profiling: Accelerant to Performance development
Dec 07, 2021
Episode 152: The Science of Training Loads- Developmental, Retentive, Restorative
Nov 29, 2021
Episode 151: Belief Building: The X Factor to Success
Nov 22, 2021
Episode 150: Innovative training methods that can take your preparation to the next level.
Nov 15, 2021
Episode 149: Peak Performance Checklist: Everything you need to be ready for the big day
Nov 08, 2021
Episode 148: Phasing Out the Long Run: How, When, Why?
Oct 18, 2021
Episode 147: The Science of Training Management: Managing the messiness of the training process compared to the neatness of training plan
Oct 11, 2021
Episode 146: Law of the Minimum: A Better Way to Think About Training
Oct 04, 2021
Episode 145: Amazing Workouts, Awful Races
Sep 28, 2021
Episode 144: How to Deal with Failure
Sep 13, 2021
Episode 143: Training and Racing in Heat and Humidity
Sep 06, 2021
Episode 142: Coaching an Olympic Medalist- A conversation with coach Danny Mackey
Aug 30, 2021
Episode 141: The Science of Warm-Ups and Cool Downs
Aug 16, 2021
Episode 140: The Power of Reflection- Looking back at dumb stuff we used to do.
Aug 09, 2021
Episode 139: Why a perfectionist mindset is holding you and your athletes back.
Jul 21, 2021
Episode 138: Big Meet Readiness- Preparing to Perform
Jul 05, 2021
Episode 137: Fatigue and the Bear Jumping On Your Back
Jun 29, 2021
Episode 136: Hitting the Wall- Navigating Fatigue in Longer Races
Jun 21, 2021
Episode 135: Performance Turnaround- How to Get Your Racing Back on Track
Jun 14, 2021
Episode 134: Improving is Really Hard!
May 31, 2021
Episode 133: Track and Field: A Multibillion Dollar Sleeping Giant
May 05, 2021
Episode 132: The Coaches Guide to Sports Psychology
Apr 19, 2021
Episode 131: Workouts, Workouts, Workouts! What, How, and Why.
Apr 06, 2021
Episode 130: When Is it Time to Pull the Plug?
Mar 15, 2021
Episode 129: Getting Race Ready- Preparing to Perform After A Layoff
Mar 01, 2021
Episode 128: Key Markers of Highly Effective Training:
Feb 09, 2021
Episode 127: Training Stimulus Threshold and Recoverability: The reason why you aren’t running as fast as you can.
Jan 31, 2021
Episode 126: Strength Training Outside of the Weigh Room
Jan 17, 2021
Episode 125: Making Adjustments to Training
Dec 28, 2020
Episode 124: Increasing Mileage: When, Why, and How.
Dec 14, 2020
Episode 123: Why Coaches Matter Now More Than Ever
Dec 07, 2020
Episode 122: Periodization in the Good Times and Bad.
Nov 08, 2020
Episode 121: You’re not working hard enough and you’re not recovering deep enough.
Sep 27, 2020
Episode 120: Peak Fitness vs. Peak Performance
Sep 14, 2020
Episode 119: Upgrading Lactate Dynamics: A Key to Running Faster Longer
Aug 30, 2020
Episode 118: The Future of College Sports and the NCAA
Aug 17, 2020
Episode 117: Development Part 2- Middle Distance Training
Aug 10, 2020
Episode 116: Endurance Development- Part 1
Jul 27, 2020
Episode 115: Fartleks, Alternations and the Lost Workout Style
Jul 20, 2020
Episode 114: Do Fast Times Transfer to Being Competitive
Jul 13, 2020
Episode 113: Being Fit Doesn’t Mean Running Fast
Jun 29, 2020
Episode 112: The Myth of Losing Speed
Jun 22, 2020
Episode 111: Top Mistakes Highly Motivated Athletes Make and Why
Jun 15, 2020
Episode 110: Endurance Speed or Speed Endurance? Which approach should we take?
Jun 08, 2020
Episode 109: The Fine Line Between Serious and Obsessive
Jun 01, 2020
Episode 108: Secrets Revealed- Developing Championship Runners
May 24, 2020
Episode 107: A Track and Field New World Order: Make Track Great Again
Apr 20, 2020
Episode 106: The Hot Hand and The Science of Streaks: A Discussion with Ben Cohen
Apr 05, 2020
Episode 105: Clarity is Power: Coaching, Training, and Achieving During Difficult Times
Mar 30, 2020
Episode 104: What to Do During Adverse and Challenging Times: A Runner’s Guide to COVID-19
Mar 12, 2020
Episode 103: Why You Shouldn’t Train Like a Pro…Unless You’re a Pro
Feb 04, 2020
Episode 102: High Volume AND High Speed Training
Jan 13, 2020
Episode 101: Interview with Tony Holler
Dec 04, 2019
Episode 100: Strength & Conditioning with Alan Bishop
Nov 06, 2019
Episode 99: Is it all about the shoes?
Oct 18, 2019
Episode 98: Models of Training That Make You Fast
Oct 09, 2019
Episode 97: Fatigue, Speedwork, Racing, and More
Sep 04, 2019
Episode 96: A Real Talk Rant on Scholarships, Formulaic Coaching, and Core Values
Jul 08, 2019
Episode 95: Playing Hurt- Understanding the Nuance of Injury.
Jun 21, 2019
Episode 94: Is Peaking a Myth?
May 28, 2019
Episode 93: The Biggest Mistakes Coaches Are Making Today
May 08, 2019
Episode 92: How to Crawl Out of the Burnout Hole
Apr 03, 2019
Episode 91: Airing of The Grievances on Track and Field with Mario Fraioli
Mar 23, 2019
Episode 90: David Epstein on All Things Performance, Drive, Passion, And Range.
Mar 16, 2019
Episode 89: On Burnout. + A Tangent on Reading
Mar 09, 2019
Episode 88: How Social Media and the Internet Influences Coaching and Performance
Feb 15, 2019
Episode 87: There are NO Magic Training Intensities
Jan 31, 2019
Episode 86: Workouts Don’t Matter as Much as You Think
Jan 15, 2019
Episode 85: Committing to Your Own Development
Dec 27, 2018
Episode 84: Finding the Fatal Flaw that is Holding You Back
Dec 11, 2018
Episode 83: Breaking Through- The Reality of the Ups and Downs of Performance
Nov 21, 2018
Episode 82: How Do You Define Success in Workouts and Races?
Oct 20, 2018
Episode 81: Embracing Failure with Brian Barraza
Aug 21, 2018
Episode 80: High School Coaching- How we would do it differently
Aug 12, 2018
Episode 79: Mastering the Mental Game: An interview with Len Zaichkowsky and Dan Peterson
Jul 25, 2018
Episode 78: The Difference Between Good and Great
Jul 18, 2018
Episode 77: You Can’t Force Improvement
Jul 03, 2018
Episode #76: Transitions, Ego, and Racing with 3:56 miler Daniel Herrera
May 23, 2018
Episode #75: The Easy Days: How far, how fast, how much?
May 10, 2018
On Coaching #74: Alex Hutchinson-“The goal isn’t to go faster…the goal is to feel better doing it.”
Apr 27, 2018
On Coaching #73: “Keep Showing Up”- Lessons from the Boston Marathon
Apr 17, 2018
On Coaching #72: The Intangibles: Can You Develop the “It” Factor
Apr 11, 2018
On Coaching #71: Does Science Constrain Coaching?
Apr 04, 2018
Episode 70: The Anatomy of a Medal- An Interview with Danny Mackey
Mar 29, 2018
Episode 69- The Long Run: How far, how fast, and do you need it?
Mar 15, 2018
Episode 68- Threshold Training: Good or Bad? And what in the world is it?
Feb 28, 2018
Episode 67- Winning: The Art and Science of Competing
Feb 14, 2018
Episode 66-Interview with Alan Webb: How he trained to run a 3:46 mile
Feb 05, 2018
Episode #65-Interview with Lauren Fleshman On Coaching
Jan 30, 2018
Episode 64: Recovery During Workouts
Jan 19, 2018
Episode 63: Everything You Need to Know About the 5k
Jan 07, 2018
Episode 62: Our Worst Coaching Blunders in Coaching Middle Distance
Dec 21, 2017
Episode 61: “If you can’t be great, be good” Coach Mike Smith after winning a National Championship
Nov 27, 2017
Episode 60: “Don’t Jog!?” Myths on Conditioning for Team Sports
Nov 03, 2017
Episode 59: Culture and Belonging: Interview with NAU coach Mike Smith
Oct 19, 2017
Episode 58: What Coaching Methods Have You Outgrown?
Oct 06, 2017
Episode 57: The Discernment Spectrum: Smart, Intelligent, or Sophisticated
Sep 12, 2017
Episode 56- How To Become A Champion
Aug 21, 2017
Episode 55- The Two Way Street of Coaching: Why learning from our athletes is a must.
Jul 21, 2017
Episode 54- A Real Coaching Conversation
Jul 06, 2017
Episode 53- The Experience vs. the PowerPoint Coaching Style
May 27, 2017
Episode 52- Specialization, Generalization, and Individualization
Apr 24, 2017
Episode 51-On Coaching- Marginal Gains, the One Percent Rule and big concepts
Apr 05, 2017
Episode 50- Coaching the person and NOT the work
Mar 20, 2017
Episode 49- Mastering the Marathon
Feb 27, 2017
Episode 48- Mastering The Art of Racing
Feb 13, 2017
Episode 47: Understanding Interval Training
Jan 26, 2017
Episode 46: The State of the Sport
Dec 20, 2016
Episode 45: What is high performance coaching?
Dec 12, 2016
Episode 44: Reflection and Rejuvenation
Nov 15, 2016
Episode 43: What’s it take to be a competitor?
Oct 28, 2016
Episode 42- Mimicry Vs. Mastery
Oct 04, 2016
Episode 41- State of the Sport with Mario Fraioli
Sep 21, 2016
Episode 40- The Businessification of Athletics and the Need for Certainty
Sep 02, 2016
Episode 39 – What defines success for a coach?
Aug 24, 2016
Episode 38-The Science of the Unscience of Running:
Aug 03, 2016
Episode 37- Interview with Vern Gambetta: Coaches Education
Jul 26, 2016
Episode 36- Innovation & Getting Stuck: An interview with Mike Smith
Jul 18, 2016
Episode 35 – Emotional Control & Picking Up the Pieces- The Olympic Trials
Jul 04, 2016
Episode 34-Toughness, Grit, and Resilience
Jun 08, 2016
Episode 33: False Positives and Inaccurate Negatives
May 06, 2016
Episode 32- Running Mechanics and a Scientific Approach to Training
Apr 27, 2016
Episode 31- Developing Team Culture: Are you Athlete or Coach centered?
Apr 16, 2016
What can we learn from action sports?- An Interview with Brad Stulberg
Apr 03, 2016
An Interview with Danny Mackey, Head Coach of the Brooks Beasts
Mar 29, 2016
Episode 28- The Psychology of the Big Breakthrough
Mar 21, 2016
Episode 27- Training for the 800
Feb 17, 2016
Episode 26- On BS- Our rant against crazy ideas, gurus, and other BS in coaching.
Jan 01, 2016
Episode 25- Part 2-Why we are horrible coaches
Dec 15, 2015
Episode 24- Why we are horrible coaches- Part 1
Dec 06, 2015
Episode 23- Accountability and Ownership-
Nov 23, 2015
Episode 22- Outliers and the average- Who do we pay attention to?
Oct 20, 2015
Episode 21- We have no idea what we’re doing- The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Coaching
Oct 01, 2015
Episode 20- A Systems vs. Process Approach to Coaching
Sep 10, 2015
Episode 19-Phoebe Wright on mindsets, struggles, and what it takes to run professionally
Aug 30, 2015
Data overload- When and how to use Data for effective coaching
Aug 17, 2015
Episode 17- Falling into the trap to do more
Jul 23, 2015
The reality of running professionally- Contracts, Agents, and having the right mindset
Jul 13, 2015
Taking Advantage of Distractions- Part 2
Jul 08, 2015
Episode 14- Taking advantage of distractions- Part 1
Jun 29, 2015
Episode 13- Advice for a young coach- part 2
Jun 16, 2015
Episode 12- Advice for a young coach- Part 1
May 30, 2015
Episode 11- Dealing with Failure
May 11, 2015
Episode 10- Knowing your athlete- Understanding what behavioral patterns tell us
Apr 22, 2015
Episode 9-Interview with Vern Gambetta- Magness & Marcus Show
Apr 10, 2015
Podcast- Drills, Skills, and Sprinting- The role of the neural component in running
Mar 28, 2015
Episode 7- The Evolution of a Coach- How to figure out what actually matters
Mar 17, 2015
Episode 6- Self Importance and the myth of the perfect workout
Mar 03, 2015
Episode 5-Handling Transitions- What separates people from making the jump to the next level
Feb 25, 2015
Episode 4-Life Outside of Running- The other 21hrs of the day and how it impacts your success
Feb 17, 2015
Episode 3- Strength Training- Myths, misconceptions, and application for distance runners
Feb 12, 2015
Episode 2- The Rare Find- Magness & Marcus on Coaching
Feb 03, 2015
Episode 1- The Clean Slate Phenomenon
Jan 26, 2015