Episode 336: Steve Magness - Training Principles, Mental Toughness, Measurables, & Sex Based Categories In Sport
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance. He is the author of the new book Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and The Surprising Science of Real Toughness. He is the coauthor of Peak Performance. The Passion Paradox, and the author of The Science of Running. Collectively his books have sold more than half a million copies in print, ebook, and audio formats.
For this episode, we dive into the both the application of training principles as well as the balance of "mental toughness" and measurable metrics. We also discuss Steve's article in the Atlantic, where he discussed sex categorization in sports.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter. |
| 0:10.3 | All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers |
| 0:13.9 | podcast. I am your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a guest interview for you. |
| 0:19.3 | Today's guest to Steve Magnus. |
| 0:24.4 | Steve Magnus is someone who I've followed for quite some time. |
| 0:30.9 | And he has definitely influenced both my training and racing as well as coaching approaches throughout the years. |
| 0:36.4 | So I was really excited to get him on the podcast and chat about some of that stuff. |
| 0:39.9 | For those of you unfamiliar, Steve has got a lot going on. |
| 0:42.3 | He's an author of a few books. |
| 0:48.5 | They are Do Hard Things, Peak Performance, The Passion Paradox, and the Science of Running. |
| 0:51.1 | He's a performance coach. |
| 0:55.7 | He works with athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, as well as serves as consultants on mental skill development for professional sports teams. He's the co-creator of the |
| 1:00.9 | growth equation, which is an online platform dedicated to understanding and practice of |
| 1:06.1 | performance and well-being. He also hosts or co-hosts a couple of podcasts. They're The Growth Equation |
| 1:12.3 | podcast and on coaching podcast where he's joined by Jonathan Marcus. If you're interested, |
| 1:19.5 | check out any of that stuff that's all worth your time. His most recent book is Do Hard |
| 1:25.4 | Things, which is one of the topics that we talked about today, as well, |
| 1:29.1 | his training methodology, things like, where is the line that we should draw with all the |
| 1:35.4 | different, like, technology and gadgets we have available to us now. |
| 1:39.1 | When is it appropriate to maybe push a little harder or even just how do you define hard as it |
| 1:45.9 | becomes individual in terms of dedicating what you are going to do with your time and |
| 1:50.5 | energy in terms of your pursuits and things like that? |
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