On Coaching with Magness & Marcus
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
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 282
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
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 psy…
01:04:12 |
Mon 21 Feb 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 is es…
01:05:10 |
Mon 14 Feb 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 impac…
01:04:31 |
Mon 07 Feb 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. That’s w…
01:04:39 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
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 …
01:09:01 |
Mon 24 Jan 2022
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 measur…
01:06:07 |
Mon 17 Jan 2022
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 pe…
01:06:36 |
Mon 20 Dec 2021
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…
01:01:49 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
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 ath…
01:04:11 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
Episode 152: The Science of Training Loads- Developmental, Retentive, Restorative
We tend to simplify training into either hard workouts or easy days. In this episode, we bring you the nuance of training. Instead of hard and easy, we like to classify training as either building, m…
01:04:44 |
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Episode 151: Belief Building: The X Factor to Success
You can have the perfect training plan, but it won’t work unless you have buy-in. In this episode, we break down the keys to getting trust, buy-in and belief with your athletes. Steve & Jon Visit our…
00:59:31 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Episode 150: Innovative training methods that can take your preparation to the next level.
Famed high school coach Joe Newton used to have his team run for 45 minutes, take a 5min break, run for 30 minutes, another 5-minute break, and finally run for 15 more minutes. Ninety minutes of tota…
01:07:22 |
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Episode 149: Peak Performance Checklist: Everything you need to be ready for the big day
What does it take to perform on race day? The physical components are the easy part. But setting someone up to have the right expectations, the correct mindset, to be able to choose to the difficult …
00:58:25 |
Mon 08 Nov 2021
Episode 148: Phasing Out the Long Run: How, When, Why?
The long run is a staple of the runner’s diet. In this episode, we explore how the long run became a weekly staple and whether that still holds true. We dive into the function and physiology of the l…
01:14:02 |
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Episode 147: The Science of Training Management: Managing the messiness of the training process compared to the neatness of training plan
Training is messy. You are dealing with human beings. In this episode we dive into adaptability, aiming for mastery, and giving your athletes autonomy to grow and develop. How do we manage the messin…
01:09:17 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Episode 146: Law of the Minimum: A Better Way to Think About Training
Leibig’s Law of the Minimum states that “growth is dictated not by total resources available, but by the scarcest resource.” In this episode we discuss how to identity your limiting factor and what t…
01:01:46 |
Mon 04 Oct 2021
Episode 145: Amazing Workouts, Awful Races
How many times have you had an athlete who has fantastic workouts, yet when it comes to race day, it’s like a different runner shows up? In this episode, Jon and Steve dive into what is going on here…
01:04:51 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
Episode 144: How to Deal with Failure
How do you handle failure? Do you freak out, let your anger get the best of you, or wallow in despair? Failure is a normal and expected part of racing. In fact, we ‘fail’ far more often than we succe…
01:09:31 |
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Episode 143: Training and Racing in Heat and Humidity
How do you survive heat and humidity? In this week’s episode, we delve into the science and practice of training in hot and humid conditions. From heat acclimatization and strategies to mitigate the …
01:07:14 |
Mon 06 Sep 2021
Episode 142: Coaching an Olympic Medalist- A conversation with coach Danny Mackey
In this episode, we welcome coach Danny Mackey to the show to discuss the training and preparation of Olympic Bronze medalist Josh Kerr. We dive into everything that went into preparing Josh for the …
01:08:05 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
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