On Coaching with Magness & Marcus
Steve Magness
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
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Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 9min
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, we go back through history, looking at how coaching and training evolved so that we can better understand how to deal…
Feb 21, 2022 • 1h 4min
Episode 161: How to become a Nuanced Thinker and level up your coaching
This podcast discusses the importance of nuanced thinking in coaching. They emphasize the need to diversify our thinking and go against our bias. They explore the impact of black and white thinking and highlight the benefits of nuance in improving athletic performance. The podcast also discusses the significance of recognizing biases and considering multiple perspectives in coaching. They emphasize the importance of refining mechanics and running skills before focusing on strength and speed.
Feb 14, 2022 • 1h 5min
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 is essential. Too often, we schedule in down weeks once every 4 weeks, when we should have more flexibility for when we…
Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 5min
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 impact the adaptation an athlete has to a workout. It’s one of those nerd out type podcasts, so get on board!…
Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 5min
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. That’s what we cover! Steve & Jon Visit our Sponsor The Scholar Program is our one-stop-shop for all things coaches education. And…
Jan 24, 2022 • 1h 9min
Episode 157: The Floundering Athlete: Ways to Reengage them and Reinvigorate their Performance
What do you do when it all goes wrong? When an athlete is struggling, overtrained, or just not feeling good anymore? In this episode, we provide strategies for how to get athletes back on track from an emotional and psychological standpoint, as well as a training and physiological standpoint. Steve & Jon Visit our Sponsor…
Jan 17, 2022 • 1h 6min
Episode 156: Does what you’re measuring actually matter?
In this episode, we take on the importance and value of measurement. Should you wear a GPS watch, measure HRV, heart rate, power, or lactate? We break down the balance you need to have between measurement and feel. Steve & Jon Visit our Sponsor The Scholar Program is our one-stop-shop for all things coaches education.…
Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 7min
Episode 155: Getting the Most Out of People: How to inspire, encourage, and sustain excellence
How do we get the most out of our athletes? How do we help them get as close to their potential as possible? In this podcast, we talk about striving for excellence and giving people the freedom to perform. Steve and Jon outline the attributes needed and what we should do as coaches to develop…
Dec 13, 2021 • 1h 2min
Episode 154: The Ultimate Coach: A little bit rebel, a little bit scientist.
Coaching is about balancing contrasting forces, the coach who relies on intuition and feel with the part of you who relies on objective data and science. The best coaches in history, from Lyrdiard to Cerutty to Bowerman, find a happy middle place, knowing when to stick with history and what’s worked, and when to push…
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Dec 7, 2021 • 1h 4min
Episode 153: Athlete Profiling: Accelerant to Performance development
Athlete + Event = Training Model. We don’t train for events, we coach athletes, with their unique abilities, to be able to take on an event. In this episode we dive into how to classify different athletes based on their physiology and psychology. This athlete profiling will help determine what type of workouts you do,…
