Harry Marra: Developing Well-Rounded Athletes

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Coach Harry Marra is one of the world's foremost experts on developing well-rounded athletes. He is a legend in the world of track and field and cemented his reputation as one of the all-time greats at the 2016 Rio Olympics when he coached American Ashton Eaton to his second Olympic gold medal in the decathlon - securing back-to-back wins in London and Rio. But that was just part of the story in Rio, because he also coached Ashton Eaton's wife, Brianne Theissen-Eaton to an Olympic bronze medal in the heptathlon. Coach Marra has also coached youth programs and is a big advocate for the role of play in shaping well-rounded athletes.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett.
0:12.2	And I'm Juliette.
0:13.7	And this is the Ready State.
0:16.2	You've got it. Welcome've been to stop it. Ooh.
0:21.6	You got it.
0:22.6	You've got it.
0:23.6	Welcome back to the Ready State.
0:24.6	This episode, for me, is a big one because I get to talk to a legend, and I'll preface this by saying, if you're a modern person, you've probably watched the Olympics.
0:34.6	How many times does this happen to you?
0:35.6	You're watching the Olympics, and there is an event called the Decahathlon and the Hepatathlon for men and women,
0:41.4	which really is the crowning of the most well-rounded best athlete at the Olympics. Today we're going
0:47.4	to talk to the coach who's behind some of these legendary performances. His name is coach Harry
0:53.5	Merah and he is a legend in the world of track and field.
0:57.2	He basically cemented his legend status at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
1:01.8	He coached American Ashton Eaton to win his, I think it was his second gold medal in
1:07.3	the decathlon.
1:08.3	And that means it was a back-to-back win in London and Rio.
1:11.7	But that was only part of the story because he also coached Ashton Eaton's wife,
1:16.1	Brianne Tyson-Eton, to Olympic bronze medal in a heptathlon.
1:19.8	I might say that Ashen is Brianne's husband because she is so fierce. And the two of them together
1:26.0	are really this incredible dyad.
1:28.9	But what's interesting about Coach Ariramara is that he has a development history,
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