#40 - Steve Magness - He's Got Running Down To A Science

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Steve Magness is the head coach for the University of Houston cross country team. He also coaches several professional runners, such as Jackie Areson, Sara Hall, and Tommy Schmitz. He's been called "The Mad Scientist of Running" by OutsideOnline.com for his intense love of digging into physiology and psychology. It took about one minute for him to warm up and dive deep into his unique and exciting theories that go far deeper than just running. He talks about a winner's mentality and how so much of endurance starts above the shoulders. His new book Peak Performance will be out soon and if it's anything like this interview, it should be a best seller. At one point he said, "I have a theory for everything," and that's the truth. Enjoy.

In today's podcast:

- Accepting anxiety in order to boost performance

- How and why training gets overcomplicated

- Why he think a lot of us would be better off leaving our Garmin's at home

- Why coaching is usually more mental and emotional than physical
- Why we sometimes perform best when we feel bad
- Our bodies survival skills at work when we race our best
- The breakdown on Steve's new book "Peak Performance"

- We ask about the differences between his college and professional athletes

- Biggest differences between coaching women and men

- The best piece of advice Steve's ever gotten from a coach

- His take on the Sub 2 Marathon Hour Project
- His favorite runner of all time

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0:00.0	all right here you are crushing iron podcast thanks man we just had an awesome guest what
0:05.8	do you think robbie oh dude like i'm not going to lie that was no offense to anybody else who's
0:11.0	been on the podcast this is my favorite easily i mean i could have gone for five hours um and
0:17.2	talk to steve it's yeah refreshing and knowledgeable um Steve. It's, yeah. Refreshing, knowledgeable,
0:24.5	intelligent, just,
0:26.6	yeah, it was a blast.
0:29.8	Just to even have a conversation with a person who was as accomplished as him
0:33.8	is a highlight for me.
0:36.5	Yeah, you really enjoyed it. And I did too. Oh, yeah.
0:39.0	I got on a little bit late, but
0:40.6	you kicked off the podcast. We
0:42.9	pulled it together, and
0:45.4	it was a very
0:47.4	enlightening, very entertaining
0:49.1	conversation with a super cool
0:51.4	guy. Here it is,
0:53.3	Steve Magnus.
0:54.1	Music conversation with a super cool guy. Here it is, Steve Magnus.
1:04.6	All right, guys, welcome to the crushing iron podcast.
1:06.4	Mike is out today.
1:07.4	He's stuck in traffic.
1:11.5	So on our next podcast, please make sure you listen because we're going to give an extremely hard time for that. He is missing out on probably, uh, not probably, definitely
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