Latest Magness Podcast Episodes
Episode 44: Reflection and Rejuvenation
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - November 15, 2016 14:45 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsThe seasons done, the races have been run, and the outcomes are determined. Whether they were good or bad, we have to move forward. As a coach and athlete it’s about figuring out what lessons to learn, and how to re-energize yourself (and your team) for the next goal that awaits. In this episode of…
Episode 43: What’s it take to be a competitor?
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - October 28, 2016 14:37 ★★★★★ - 343 ratings“He’s a competitor!” We’ve all had athletes that exemplified the act of competing. They show up on race day, run their guts out, rise to the occasion when it’s asked of them, and put their teammates on their back, instead of only being concerned with themselves. What makes up this ability? Is it ...
Episode 42- Mimicry Vs. Mastery
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - October 04, 2016 19:28 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsThis week, we take on the big question of mastery, particularly in regards to coaching. Beginners tend to mimic. It’s ingrained in us; mimicry is the way we first learn how to make it in life, as we copy our parents when we are just toddlers. In coaching, this might mean copying the training plans…
Episode 41- State of the Sport with Mario Fraioli
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - September 21, 2016 16:06 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn episode 41, we bring in Mario Fraioli to discuss the state of the sport. We start with a different kind of Olympic overview, one which takes a deep dive on the problems that arose and the potential way forward. We talk about how to take control of the narrative of our sport, instead of…
Episode 40- The Businessification of Athletics and the Need for Certainty
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - September 02, 2016 16:22 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsWhat’s the point of sport? In this episode, Jon and I make the case that it’s about education and learning. The culture of coaches used to be educators. They came from a background of using athletics as a means to help student athletes grow and develop. As the top side of the sport professionaliz...
Episode 39 – What defines success for a coach?
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - August 24, 2016 21:52 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsWhat defines success for a coach? Is it wins and losses? Championships won? Leading athletes to new personal bests? Having one athlete win an Olympic medal while destroying 20 of them? These are the common notions that we associated with success. But is it the best way? In this episode of the Ma...
Episode 38-The Science of the Unscience of Running:
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - August 03, 2016 16:46 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsHumans have a need for explanations. When faced with uncertainty we rely on closure. The world of running is no different. When something goes wrong, as athletes and coaches we go into a panicked search for a reason why we didn’t perform at our best. Often, we perform elaborate gymnastics attempt...
Episode 37- Interview with Vern Gambetta: Coaches Education
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 26, 2016 00:30 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode, we are joined by performance coach extraordinaire Vern Gambetta. Using the performances at the recent Olympic Trials as a backdrop we take on coaches education. Where have we gone right and where have we missed the boat. We start by asking the question of what makes a good coach?...
Episode 36- Innovation & Getting Stuck: An interview with Mike Smith
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 18, 2016 16:13 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode, we have a special guest, the director of Track and Field at Georgetown, Mike Smith. In an in-person conversation at the Olympic Trials we discuss innovation within coaching. With the three of us having been in the collegiate and post-collegiate world we discuss the tendency for t...
Episode 35 – Emotional Control & Picking Up the Pieces- The Olympic Trials
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 04, 2016 02:01 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsComing at you in-person from the Olympic Trials, we dish on the high pressure environment that is attempting to make the US Olympic team. Jon and I take a look at the 7/8 of the field that leaves disappointed and how we should pick up the pieces after a hard fought race. The Olympic Trials…
Episode 34-Toughness, Grit, and Resilience
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - June 08, 2016 14:34 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode of the Magness and Marcus Podcast we discuss a quality that all runners aspire to and all coaches try to engender. The ability to dig down, fight your way through adversity, bounce back from failure, and show up consistently when it counts. As runners, we might refer to this as to...
Episode 33: False Positives and Inaccurate Negatives
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - May 06, 2016 02:57 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode of the Magness and Marcus Podcast we discuss False Positive and Inaccurate Negatives. What are they? A false positive is when we have a great race or great series of workouts that doesn’t translate over to sustained performance. On the flip side, an inaccurate negative is when an ...
Episode 32- Running Mechanics and a Scientific Approach to Training
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - April 27, 2016 21:00 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsRunning form is one of the hot button topics in the world of distance coaches. We debate, often with speed/power coaches, on where they fit into the program. How important are mechanics for a distance runner? How do we change them? Should we change them? These are the questions that wer tackle...
Episode 31- Developing Team Culture: Are you Athlete or Coach centered?
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - April 16, 2016 00:46 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode of the Magness & Marcus Podcast, we talk about building Culture. While we are trained as coaches to emphasize the physiology and doc us on workout design, what separates programs that thrive and last is often the intangible dynamic of culture. In this episode, we go through our ex...
What can we learn from action sports?- An Interview with Brad Stulberg
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - April 03, 2016 18:27 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode, we’re coming to you in-person from Palo Alto, California. In the day after the Stanford Invite, Jon and I invite a special guest onto the podcast. Brad Stulberg is an expert in human performance. You might recognize his name from his regular work with Outside Magazine where he wr...
An Interview with Danny Mackey, Head Coach of the Brooks Beasts
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - March 29, 2016 14:35 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsWe have a special guest for this weeks episode, head coach of the Brooks Beasts Danny Mackey. Danny has numerous accolades, including coaching 800m runners Cas Loxsom and Nick Simmonds to spots on last years World Championship teams. In this episode, Danny traces his story in how he got into coac...
Episode 28- The Psychology of the Big Breakthrough
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - March 21, 2016 23:03 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsThe breakthrough is what we are all after. It’s what we spend months training for, visualizing, and dreaming about. But what’s the best way to get there, and how do we capitalize on it once we do. In this episode, Jon and I go through the psychology of a breakthrough. We start with defining a…
Episode 27- Training for the 800
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - February 17, 2016 16:58 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsWe’re back with a new podcast for 2016! This time we jump straight into what you guys have asked for, specifics on training. For this episode, we divert away from the bigger picture and discuss training for the 800. We start with going through the different types of 800m runners and why it’s an e...
Episode 26- On BS- Our rant against crazy ideas, gurus, and other BS in coaching.
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - January 01, 2016 11:00 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsFor our last podcast episode of 2015, it’s time to go on a few rants, call some ideas out, and create a little bit of controversy in our own little world of coaching. We’re going to cover bullshit. We start off with the myth of chasing perfection. Instead of seeing perfection as the ultimate goal,…
Episode 25- Part 2-Why we are horrible coaches
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - December 15, 2015 18:30 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn part two of Why we are horrible coaches, we continue down the path of bashing our own ability to coach. Starting with trap coaches fall into when they coach someone fast when they’re young- they now think that this is now the magical formula. We then delve into our worst moments of failure as…
Episode 24- Why we are horrible coaches- Part 1
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - December 06, 2015 20:48 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode, Jon and I are coming at you together from Houston, Texas. In a rare podcast where we are actually face to face, we discuss why we are horrible coaches. Yes, we’re giving the trolls what they want and discussing all of the times we screwed up, made mistakes, and generally talk about…
Episode 23- Accountability and Ownership-
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - November 23, 2015 16:51 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn Episode 23 of the Magness & Marcus show, we talk about the importance of accountability and ownership. When success or failure comes, how you frame these outcomes can change not only each individuals motivation to succeed, but also whether they learn from their mistakes, and surprisingly how w...
Episode 22- Outliers and the average- Who do we pay attention to?
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - October 20, 2015 12:05 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode of the Magness and Marcus podcast, we take on the concept of outliers and averages. Research and coaching practices tend to focus on a select demographic, whether that’s the WEIRD (Western, educated, and from industrialized, rich, and democratic countries) research or coaches focu...
Episode 21- We have no idea what we’re doing- The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Coaching
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - October 01, 2015 13:41 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode of the Magness & Marcus show, we delve into the Dunning Kruger effect. You might not know the name of this cognitive bias, but it’s something we’re all familiar with. It refers to our inability to accurate assess our abilities. Novices tend to overestimate their abilities, while e...
Episode 20- A Systems vs. Process Approach to Coaching
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - September 10, 2015 02:26 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn Episode 20, Jon and I discuss the difference between a Systems and Process approach to coaching. What’s the difference? A systems based approach could be described as having a set formula/specific model for training. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Daniels, Coe, Lydiard, or any other coach. A s...
Episode 19-Phoebe Wright on mindsets, struggles, and what it takes to run professionally
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - August 30, 2015 20:25 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn Episode 19 of the Magness & Marcus show, we have a special guest in professional runner, Phoebe Wright. In an eye opening interview, Phoebe opens up about her running story. Starting off with what her mindset was going from walk-on to NCAA champion and how that mindset shifted once she reached...
Data overload- When and how to use Data for effective coaching
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - August 17, 2015 21:49 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsWe’re back! After a couple week summer hiatus while I took some vacation time, Jon and I are back with an exciting podcast on Data.We start off with trying to get to the essence of splits. Coming at it from a philosophical viewpoint, we look at what workout splits actually tell us and trace our…
Episode 17- Falling into the trap to do more
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 23, 2015 22:33 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn the latest episode of the Magness and Marcus show, we discuss a familiar topic to all coaches, the trap to do more because you really don’t know what else to do. Yes, we’re talking about the age old problem of increasing work for the sake of increasing something. We begin with the diminished r...
The reality of running professionally- Contracts, Agents, and having the right mindset
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 13, 2015 23:36 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn this episode, we open the doors wide open. We’re talking about the realities of post collegiate running. We take on a slew of topics in this hour long conversation, including transparent conversation on contracts, agents, how much athletes actually make, what training groups and coaches do, an...
Taking Advantage of Distractions- Part 2
Magness & Marcus on Coaching - July 08, 2015 15:06 ★★★★★ - 343 ratingsIn part two of our in person chat at the USA championships, Jon and I meander through a variety of topics surrounding distractions and performance. We start off with talking about taking the master chef approach. What’s this actually mean? It’s about how to get all of these different people to th...