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Back to SearchEpisode 173: The Difference Between Extraordinary and Mediocre
What game are you playing? We all may think we are all running the same race. A 1,500m race in high school is the same as in college, and the same as…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 172: The Importance of Leaving Room to Grow
One piece of advice I always give coaches is: Always have somewhere to go. The younger your athletes, the more important this is. We should leave roo…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 171: The Headcase phenomenon: Stop Blaming Athletes for Poor Performance
“He’s a headcase!” We’ve all heard it as coaches. Maybe we’ve even said it. In this episode, Jon and Steve discuss why this is the wrong approach to …
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 170: Everyone is an Outlier
We are all an experiment of 1! We often talk about individualization in coaching. In this episode, we talk about the contrast between applying your t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 169: Developing Performance Flexibility: How to prepare adaptive athletes to deliver when it counts
If running is going bad do you feel crushed? In this episode, we discuss the importance of letting go, of diversifying your sense of identity, in ord…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 168: The Dunning-Krueger Effect on Steroids: How a Narrow World View Holds You and Your Athletes Back
How does your viewpoint impact your coaching? In this episode, we discuss how sometimes we get comfortable employing the same style of training, and …
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 167: What’s worth doing even if you fail? — How to be brave, take risks, stretch your comfort zone, and avoid manufacturing certainty.
Often, in racing we play it safe. We don’t take the risk. We focus on times instead of competing. In this episode, we talk about how to be brave in r…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 166: Everything we got wrong coaching Women. And a few things we got right.
In this episode, we take on an important but difficult topic: the differences between coaching men and women. In this episode, we cover differences i…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 165: The Rocky Road to the Top: Embrace the Mess of Training.
Training is messy. Progress is not linear. In this episode, we get real. We talk about the messiness of training. How do we handle setbacks, what do …
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 164: How much of your training should not be running?
In the 1960’s Percy Cerutty made the claim that 1/3 of your training should be non-running. Does this hold up or not as a useful heuristic? In this e…
4 years, 7 months ago