Science of Running

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Episode 180: Avoiding Training Dead Ends: Methods to Restoring the Winning Balance Aug 15, 2022

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Training is about balancing opposing demands: speed and endurance. What happens when you mess up the balance? It’s often a disaster. In this episode, Jon and Steve go through how to find the balance point, and what to do to correct it. If you haven’t yet, check out Steve’s new book: Do Hard Things: Why…

Episode 179: The 10 Timeless Guiding Principles of Distance Running Training Aug 08, 2022

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We often get lost in the details. Arguing over the final 1%, whether we should run at lactate threshold or critical velocity? Whether 200s or 300s are best for milers? In this episode we outline 10 timeless principles that stand the test of time. If you follow these, you’ll succeed! Nail the basics! If you…

Episode 178: Running Half Truths: Advice to Be Ignored Aug 01, 2022

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Every sport has the items that many of us seem to believe, that are ingrained in the history of the sport, that have no foundation or backing. In this episode, we explore those half-truths. We’re aided by a pamphlet written fifty years ago, with insight that we’ve forgotten. If you haven’t yet, check out Steve’s…

Episode 177: Sympathetic Overdrive- How to Get Out of Stressing Out! Jul 18, 2022

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Athletes stress out…a lot! And once you are in stressed mode, it’s hard to get out of it. You can’t sleep hours after competing because your mind is still racing and your body is still buzzing. You can’t let go of the tough loss. It lingers. In this episode, we talk about how to move…

BONUS: Sink or Swim, Survive or Thrive Jul 14, 2022

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Welcome to this special bonus issue. Steve does his best revisionist history impression, telling you the story of Paul Bear Bryant’s famous Junction Boys football camp, while discussing the origins of ‘old school toughness.’ This is adapted from his new book Do Hard Things, which you can check out wherever books are sold. It’s currently…

Episode 176: Individualizing Training in Larger Settings Jul 11, 2022

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Individualizing training is easy at the professional level. You’ve got a handful of athletes, all very good, and can adjust as needed. In larger settings, it’s much more difficult. The athlete’s abilities are spread out, there’s only one of you, and practice can be more akin to herding cats. In this episode, we explore how…

Going to Exhaustion. Even When You Aren’t Prepared. Jul 05, 2022

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Let me tell you about one of the hardest physical things I’ve done in the past few years. A time when I ran my slowest ever, but one I was most proud of. A time I looked, and felt, like absolute death afterward… In the first few years of coaching, I was young & fit,…

Episode 175: Fast Losers-Racing vs. Time Trialing Jul 04, 2022

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Racing is a skill. How do we get comfortable in a pack? Running from the front, or perhaps stuck in the back? How do you deal with the rising tension of a tactical race? Steve and Jon discuss all of this in more in helping your athletes develop the skills of racing! If you haven’t…

How to Build Tough Teams Jun 30, 2022

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“We believe that being elite is not about how talented you are. It is about how tough you are,” wrote Urban Meyer in his 2015 book Above the Line. Toughness has long been held as a fundamental key to achieving peak performance. Famed football coach Vince Lombardi called it “essential to success,” and NBA legend…

Care and Support: The Secret to Great Performance Jun 23, 2022

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At the 1960 Olympic games, a 60-something-year-old man, rail thin, with a full head of white hair, took to the practice track adjacent to the main Olympic stadium and commenced to run as hard as he could. The gangly elderly man grimaced and strained to complete the 3 and ¾ of a lap which makes…

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