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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Steve Magness has been a serious runner since the age of 14. Since then, he’s developed techniques and strategies for sustaining peak performance not only while running, but during life in general as well. He has helped Olympic athletes train to be their best, and he has seen the power stress and anxiety can play, both positive and negative, in lives. Take a listen to our latest episode to see how you can maintain your peak performance in your life by following Steve’s path!

Steve Magness is a runner, coach, exercise physiologist, and a writer. He’s the author of The Science of Running and is the current cross country coach at the University of Houston. He also coaches professional runners who compete in World Championships and the Olympics. He runs the website scienceofrunning.com.

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0:00.0	So if I have this fear again, we went, we talked about fear of failure. If I have this fear of
0:05.3	stressful activities, of anxiety, et cetera, then it's going to be debilitative. Like my hormonal
0:13.7	profile will shift in a negative direction, right? And why does that happen? Because the body,
0:19.6	right? Your mind is pretty smart thing. Your brain is a pretty remarkable thing. It thinks, okay,
0:25.2	like I'm getting anxious, like I'm about to be in a bad spot. I got to prepare for this,
0:31.2	right? So it's the mindset. But on the other hand, if you see stress as a way to grow,
0:40.3	as a way that your body is preparing to perform, then what happens is, yeah, you're still got a
0:47.7	little bit of that anxiety and anxiousness. But what happens is it becomes positive.
0:53.6	An example I always like to give in an athletic standpoint is think about like the best
0:59.9	performances. Like you don't see them at practice, right? You don't see records being broken,
1:05.9	you know, when you're doing nothing and it's just you and your coach at practice,
1:09.8	you see them during the big competitions, the big games when people step up. And the reason
1:15.2	people are able to step up is because that, that, that, that stress gives you an extra boost in
1:23.1	performance if it lets you do it. I'm Sreeni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast,
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1:41.4	insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakablecreative.com.
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