Episode 373: Steve Magness – Performance Coach and Author
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Steve Magness is a performance coach, a writer, and is the author of several books including Peak Performance, The Passion Paradox, and the Science of Running. He is also the co-founder of The Growth Equation. You’ve heard from his business partner, Brad Stulberg, on this podcast. Steve was the track and field and cross country coach for the University of Houston. Back in the day, he also worked with the Nike Oregon Project and he was one of the whistleblowers on Alberto Salazar.
What we talked about:
4:00- Introduction to Steve
5:25- Finding the balance between exploration and exploiting
9:20- How he met his wife
13:55- Steve’s running career
24:00- The decision to step down from coaching at the University of Houston
29:10- His work that he does consulting with sports teams
33:10- Defining a limiting factor
35:50- Overcoming writer’s block
41:00- How social interaction aids in recovery
48:25- Working with Nike Oregon Project and being a whistleblower on Alberto Salazar
1:02:35- Individualizing training
1:13:35- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:17.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm your host Lindsay, thank you so much for being here today. |
| 0:26.8 | Today we're listening to episode 373 and my guest is Steve Magnus. |
| 0:32.8 | Steve is a performance coach, he's a writer, and he's the author of several books including |
| 0:38.6 | Peak Performance, The Passion Paradox, and The Science of Running. |
| 0:42.5 | He's also the co-founder of the Growth Equation. |
| 0:45.6 | You've heard from his business partner on that Brad Stolberg on this podcast several times. |
| 0:52.4 | And Steve was the track and cross country coach for the University of Houston for quite |
| 0:57.5 | a while. |
| 0:58.5 | He also has a history back in the day, he worked with the Nike Oregon Project, and we get |
| 1:03.9 | into that a little bit because he was one of the whistleblowers with everything that |
| 1:08.5 | went on with Alberto Salzar, and it was something I didn't want to spend a ton of time on. |
| 1:14.1 | However, I felt like it was really important to talk about it because it's a big part |
| 1:18.0 | of his story. |
| 1:19.4 | And so we touch on that and we talk about the evolution of his own running as well in |
| 1:24.2 | this episode. |
| 1:25.2 | Steve is super well researched and educated and has so many great things to say. |
| 1:31.0 | It was really a joy to talk to him in this episode. |
| 1:34.9 | These are the kinds of episodes I just want to bottle up and keep forever, and I'm so |
| 1:39.2 | grateful to have the opportunity to talk to people like Steve. |
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