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EP 596: Do We Get Toughness Wrong? With Steve Magness

Trail Runner Nation

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As a young runner, Steve Magness was a very fast runner, holding one of the fastest high school mile times at 4:01.  He was a model for toughness, pushing through the pain until he puked.  But this strategy failed as he continued trying to break the 4:00 barrier at the University of Houston.

Steve Magness is a runner, coach and world-renowned expert on peak performance. He uncovers the science and helps us learn how to be better athletes and tougher people. In his new book Do Hard Things - Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of REAL TOUGHNESS Steve looks at the science and helps us learn how to be more resilient and learn how to do hard things.

We did a chapter by chapter review of this book leading up to this episode. If you want to learn more listen to these episodes:

Steve is the co-founder of The Growth Equation, an online platform dedicated to the understanding and practice of performance and well-being. He also co-hosts The Growth Equation Podcast with Brad Stulberg and On Coaching Podcast with Jon Marcus. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram @SteveMagness

Andy Jones-Wilkins joins us to wrap up this great book. Hire Andy as a coach! or check out his weekly Tap Room at iRunFar

Transcript

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0:00.0

I did the wrong thing, or not necessarily the wrong thing.

0:05.6

I just had a very narrow approach, right?

0:08.2

I had a hammer, and I thought that hammer was going to solve every single problem that

0:12.8

I came across.

0:14.2

And it turns out, surprise, surprise, like, you need more tools than a hammer.

0:29.7

Welcome to Trailhead of Trail Runner Nation, where we go on virtual trail runs with interesting

0:34.6

knowledgeable guests that help teach us how to be better runners and maybe even better

0:40.1

human beings.

0:41.4

If it's your first time here, we welcome you.

0:43.9

The trail is very long, and there's room for everybody.

0:47.6

Lace up your shoes.

0:48.6

Here we go.

0:49.6

And today, we're running with author Steve Magnus.

0:52.4

He wrote the book Do Hard Things, which we've been discussing for the last three episodes.

0:58.2

And I even love the book more now than I did before.

1:01.6

Steve is such a great guest.

1:06.1

A couple of weeks ago, I told you that I'm back on the wagon with my ritual morning routine

1:11.1

of athletic greens.

1:13.3

First thing I do when I wake up is I go get a nice cold bottle of water, put a scoop of

1:19.5

athletic greens in it, and drink it down, and it's become a habit, and it's a good habit

1:25.5

to have it.

1:26.5

It's a healthy habit.

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