Latest Magness Podcast Episodes
Episode 134: Improving is Really Hard!
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - May 31, 2021 13:45 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn our early days or running, improvement comes easy! A little bit of training and our performance improves. We get fooled into thinking work and improvement are directly correlated. This is great for getting us to put in the work, but what happens when improvement slows down, when it becomes a j...
Episode 133: Track and Field: A Multibillion Dollar Sleeping Giant
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - May 05, 2021 16:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIt’s time for a state of the sport check-in. In this episode, Jon and Steve take on the sleeping giant that is the sport of track and field. We discuss how to improve it, what we are missing, and how we need to change the narrative. From big ideas to small tweaks that we all…
Episode 132: The Coaches Guide to Sports Psychology
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - April 19, 2021 15:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsAs 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...
Episode 131: Workouts, Workouts, Workouts! What, How, and Why.
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - April 06, 2021 11:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn 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 w...
Episode 130: When Is it Time to Pull the Plug?
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - March 15, 2021 03:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsCoaching 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…
Episode 129: Getting Race Ready- Preparing to Perform After A Layoff
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - March 01, 2021 00:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsHow 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…
Episode 128: Key Markers of Highly Effective Training:
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - February 09, 2021 00:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsWhat’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 Performa...
Episode 127: Training Stimulus Threshold and Recoverability: The reason why you aren’t running as fast as you can.
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - January 31, 2021 16:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsEveryone 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 ...
Episode 126: Strength Training Outside of the Weigh Room
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - January 17, 2021 22:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsStrength training can occur anywhere. It’s not dependent on the weight room. In this episode we explore ways to develop strength and power outside of the weight room. From utilizing sprints and hills to bounding, plyos, and throwing around heavy objects outside, we cover ways in which runners can...
Episode 125: Making Adjustments to Training
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - December 28, 2020 13:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsYou’re at the track, watching a workout, when all of the sudden it starts to go south. Athletes are missing their splits, first by a few seconds, then by more and more. Do you pull the plug? Increase the recovery? Shorten the repeats? In this episode of the On Coaching Podcast, we dive into when,…
Episode 124: Increasing Mileage: When, Why, and How.
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - December 14, 2020 09:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsShould you follow the 10% rule for increasing mileage? Are you destined to be injured if you increase mileage too quickly? In this podcast we tackle all of the questions around mileage. How much, what does it do, when should we increase it, and much more. Steve & Jon Resources Mentioned in the Po...
Episode 123: Why Coaches Matter Now More Than Ever
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - December 07, 2020 14:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsThe title says it all: we need coaches! Why? Coaches are there to not only motivate but to provide perspective. Whether you coach at the high school, college, or professional level, coaches spend more time with athletes than that athlete spends with any teacher, professor, or anyone else outside ...
Episode 122: Periodization in the Good Times and Bad.
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - November 08, 2020 23:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsPeriodization sounds complex, but it’s really just how we plan and organize our training. Do you build a big base and then go short and fast with speedwork? Or employ a blended or mixed system? In this episode we break down periodization and discuss how to use it not only when things are going we...
Episode 121: You’re not working hard enough and you’re not recovering deep enough.
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - September 27, 2020 19:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsHard days hard, easy days easy. How much validity does that saying have? How hard should our hard workouts be? Should we jog slowly on recovery days or make them steady? In this episode, we dive into the balance between hard workouts and recovery days. Steve & Jon Resources Mentioned in the Podca...
Episode 120: Peak Fitness vs. Peak Performance
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - September 14, 2020 10:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsWhat’s it mean to be fit? What about to perform? Is there a meaningful difference? In this episode, Steve and Jon explore the continuum from fitness to performance. As we make our way from fitness to performance, the psychological demands shift. From high control to low. From low threat to high. ...
Episode 119: Upgrading Lactate Dynamics: A Key to Running Faster Longer
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - August 30, 2020 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsWhat’s it mean to improve the lactate threshold? What about lactate buffering capacity? In this episode, John and Steve take you down the rabbit hole of workouts designed to improve every part of the lactate curve. You’ll learn why traditional tempo runs push the lactate curve up, but you can als...
Episode 118: The Future of College Sports and the NCAA
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - August 17, 2020 10:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsThe NCAA and college sports are in disarray. Facing a mass pandemic, postponement and cancelation of fall sports, and a growing understanding by the athletes the leverage that they have. With many of us wondering what in the world is the future of college sports, this week we brough on an expert,...
Episode 117: Development Part 2- Middle Distance Training
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - August 10, 2020 10:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsThe Middle Distance Events. That combination of speed and endurance makes them one of the most enjoyable but also challenging events to train for or coach. In this episode, we dive deep into the challenges of training for the 800m and 1,500m.We walk you through: The wisdom of Percy Cerutty on coa...
Episode 116: Endurance Development- Part 1
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 27, 2020 09:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIt’s time for a deep dive into training. This week begins a multi-part series on the development of an athlete. We start with the intake process and deciding where to go with the athlete, and move on to what kind of training the athlete should do. For this week, we focus on the 5k and…
Episode 115: Fartleks, Alternations and the Lost Workout Style
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 20, 2020 10:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsFartleks, the wonderful invention of Gusta Holmer in the 1930’s, is something we are all familiar with. Run hard for a minute, jog for a minute, repeat twenty times. But in today’s world where everything is measured and coaches rely on that feedback to adjust workloads, the fartlek is becoming a ...
Episode 114: Do Fast Times Transfer to Being Competitive
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 13, 2020 10:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsDo the fastest athletes always win? The ones who come in with the best seed time. The athlete who threw down that fast mile at Mt. Sac or a blazing 5k at Stanford? If not, how come? In episode 114, we explore the world of racing. What does it mean to be competitive and can…
Episode 113: Being Fit Doesn’t Mean Running Fast
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - June 29, 2020 11:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratings“He’s really fit! They’re going to run really well!” How many times have you heard a coach excitedly proclaim that, only to see their athlete perform poorly? It happens to all of us. We’re left scratching our heads after the race. They were crushing workouts, we might think. How could they not pu...
Episode 112: The Myth of Losing Speed
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - June 22, 2020 09:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsOne of my pet peeves when discussing endurance work is the concept of losing speed. In the middle distance world, this concept of losing speed is widespread. Go to any coaching conference, hang around enough coaches, or just talk to your athletes and you’ll hear this concept over and over. It’s u...
Episode 111: Top Mistakes Highly Motivated Athletes Make and Why
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - June 15, 2020 10:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsHighly motivated athletes are the best to coach. You don’t have to worry if they got their run or workout in, they are always eager to train, perform, and do what’s necessary to get better. But, there are pitfalls that even the most well-intentioned athletes need to be aware of. The higher the mo...
Episode 110: Endurance Speed or Speed Endurance? Which approach should we take?
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - June 08, 2020 08:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsShould we start with speed first or endurance? Do you start with a large base of easy running before layering on the speed work, or do we start with running fast before extending it? Those are the questions we tackle during this weeks On Coaching Podcast. Highlights include: What lens are you see...
Episode 109: The Fine Line Between Serious and Obsessive
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - June 01, 2020 10:56 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsAre you serious, committed, willing to put in all the work? If so, you’re a coaches dream. But your commitment can hold you back if it comes from the wrong place. In episode 109, we discuss the difference between being serious and obsessive about your craft and how that impacts your long term dev...
Episode 108: Secrets Revealed- Developing Championship Runners
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - May 24, 2020 14:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn episode 108, we dive into what it takes to become a championship level athlete, whether that championship is at the high school state meet, the NCAA championships, or a national or international title. covered include: The importance of developing the athlete, the person staring back at you. R...
Episode 107: A Track and Field New World Order: Make Track Great Again
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - April 20, 2020 13:25 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn episode 107, we dive into what the sport will look like when we emerge from our current pandemic, and how it will have to change. We dive into a slew of topics, aimed at re-imagining our sport. Major sports (NFL,NBA, MLB) change their rules and playoff structures while keeping their history in...
Episode 106: The Hot Hand and The Science of Streaks: A Discussion with Ben Cohen
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - April 05, 2020 22:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn episode 106, we bring on author Ben Cohen to have a discussion on streaks, the role of science and expertise in decision making, and our propensity to see patterns where they may not exist. His new book, The Hot Hand, is a fantastic read. We hope you enjoy the discussion, as it’s filled with…
Episode 105: Clarity is Power: Coaching, Training, and Achieving During Difficult Times
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - March 30, 2020 15:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsNormally running is an achievement-focused sport. We’re trying to win races and run PR’s. We’re not going to have any achievement opportunities for the foreseeable future. How do we frame running and keep athletes motivated when achievement isn’t on the horizon. In this podcast we discuss: Adopti...