132 episodes
Magness & Marcus on Coaching Steve Magness
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4.7 • 262 Ratings
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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
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Episode 132: The Coaches Guide to Sports Psychology
As coaches, we obsess over the X’s and O’s. Did we get the training just right? But often it’s the mental side of the sport that makes much of the difference. In this episode we dive into what coaches need to know about sports psychology. We cover everything from anxiety, choking, motivation, and understanding our stress response and arousal.
Steve & Jon
Resources Mentioned:
Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
Performance Psychology: Perception, Action, Cognition, and Emotion
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Episode 131: Workouts, Workouts, Workouts! What, How, and Why.
In this episode we dive into the bread and butter of coaching runners, designing and implementing workouts. Jon and Steve discuss their favourite marathon, middle-distance, and 5k-10k workouts. What are they? When should you utilize them? Who are they for? If you love diving into the details of workout creation, this episode is for you.
Steve & Jon
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Episode 130: When Is it Time to Pull the Plug?
Coaching is easy when everything is going smoothly. But how do we know when to pull the plug on an athletes workout or season? What do we do when an athlete is struggling in a workout? Do we give them more rest, adjust the pace, or pull the plug? When a season is going in the wrong direction, do we rest and recover, change the stimulus, or call it a season? In this episode we explore the difficult decisions coaches have to make when things aren’t going well.
Steve & Jon
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Episode 129: Getting Race Ready- Preparing to Perform After A Layoff
How do you get ready to race after a long layoff? This might be something that you may be facing do to COVID or coming back from injury. In this episode we dive into how to get back into the groove of racing!
Steve & Jon
Resources Mentioned in the Podcast
* Bill Bowerman’s High Performance Training
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Episode 128: Key Markers of Highly Effective Training:
What’s effective training? What workouts are the best for improving endurance, speed, fatigued resistance? In this episode, we dive into how to determined what effective training is, and how we define effective training.
Steve & Jon
Resources Mentioned in the Podcast
* Bill Bowerman’s High Performance Training
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We’ve just launched a new course for the Scholar Program: Philosophy 301: Designing a Training Program. In this course, we cover everything from periodization to designing and manipulating workouts. Check it out!
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Episode 127: Training Stimulus Threshold and Recoverability: The reason why you aren’t running as fast as you can.
Everyone is different. We all recover at different rates for different workouts. In this episode, we explore why some athletes need work work, why others need more recovery, and how to identify and modulate your training to give each athlete what they need.
Steve & Jon
Resources Mentioned in the Podcast
* Athletic Development by Vern Gambetta
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Customer Reviews
Great Podcast
There are very few resources out here for endurance coaches as this one. Their Scholars Program provides even more context and training, as well. I appreciate you both bringing in different experts (Joe Vigil, Mike Smith (the erudite NAU coach), amongst others) gives a great view of how to get at coaching athletes at various levels.
I echo the discussion on mic etiquette, fellas, but that’s a minor correction that doesn’t lessen the overall content of this FREE resource.
Please bring on Ed Eyestone and Mike Smith after next month’s (fingers crossed) nationals. I’d love to hear their thoughts expounded upon in an open forum beyond the guesswork from the 7 minute comparison in the scholars program.
I seriously cannot thank you enough for this podcast.
Good material, not great recording conditions
Love the material covered and knowledge. It’s super distracting though when one of the hosts (or someone near them) is eating something with a crinkly wrapper, microwaving things, drinking something, etc..... I’ve had to turn off a couple episodes and delete them because the noise there is so distracting, I don’t even hear the content :(.
Outstanding Professional Resource
I’ll admit that I’m one of those terrible people who don’t “rate and review” on a regular basis, but after tuning into this podcast since it’s inception I’m compelled to do so!
These guys are unequivocally the foremost resource for running coaches in the game today. I rely on them to stay on top of the most recent research, and to break it down into and easily digestible format. They are able to dissect and disseminate this information in an engaging and easily understandable fashion.
I share this podcast on a regular basis, and the content has had a profound influence on how I’ve coached my athletes at both the collegiate and high school levels, in addition to gen pop. I thoroughly enjoy these discussions, download and consume each podcast as soon as it’s released, and consistently look to Mr. Magness and Mr. Marcus to be a “signal in the noise.”