Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Time-Starved Athlete: How to Train When You Can’t Do Everything
You don’t need a professional athlete’s schedule to train well. But you do need to stop pretending you can fit everything in. Steve and Jon explain h…
1 day, 4 hours ago
The Workout Is Not the Point
Training is only the input. Adaptation is the goal. Steve and Jon explore why the same workout can transform one athlete and bury another and how str…
1 week ago
Rethinking Recovery: The Essentials of Rest and Resilience
Steve Magness and John Marcus rant about the “recovery industrial complex,” arguing that while recovery knowledge has improved, monetized gadgets can…
2 months ago
Beyond Mileage: The New Rules of Summer Base Training
Steve Magness and Jonathan Marcus discuss an updated approach to summer base building that keeps aerobic mileage as the foundation but adds “spices” …
2 months, 1 week ago
Patience in Performance: Delayed Gratification in Training
Steve Magness and Jonathan Marcus discuss the art and science of delayed training effects, arguing that training adaptations are non-linear, hard to …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Navigating the Unpredictable: Managing Athlete Injuries
In this week’s episode Steve and Jon discuss injuries as an unavoidable, unpredictable part of running due to impact and eccentric loads, arguing coa…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Unlocking Potential: The Power of Constraints in Coaching and Training
The episode focuses on constraints in coaching: manipulating training and environment to drive physical and psychological adaptation by identifying a…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Marius Bakken on the Norwegian Method: Double Threshold, Lactate Control, and Muscle Tone
We host Olympian and Norwegian-method innovator Marius Bakken and talk bout the history and principles behind double-threshold training, lactate test…
5 months ago
Part 3: The Art and Science of Peaking
Steve Magness and John Marcus continue their peaking series by reframing peaking as maintaining fitness while eradicating fatigue so athletes can exp…
5 months, 1 week ago
Coaching Successfully Series Part 2: Defining Your Training Approach
Steve Magness and Jonathan Marcus discuss how coaches should define a training approach without falling into two traps: having no coherent philosophy…
5 months, 2 weeks ago