Steve Magness
Performance coach and author of Do Hard Things; he coached college and professional runners for fifteen years, and writes the Steve Magness newsletter on physical and mental performance.
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Their wordsAdd a watch and pace metric and now you’re stuck comparing. The worth of the run stops being about the experience itself and more about the metrics.
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsMaking someone exhausted is the easiest thing you can do in training. Fatigue is simple to achieve. It’s time to stop making it the proof that a workout is good or that it worked.
↗Stop with the Punishment and “Toughness” Workouts!stevemagness.org
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsOne nights sleep is generally compensated for and not a huge deal. But it does mean the deck gets slightly stacked against you.
↗The Rams Are Flying 16 Hours to Play an NFL Game the Next Day. Is That Insane?stevemagness.org
- 4 weeks earlier
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Exercise is the number one thing a person can do to improve long-term physical and cognitive health.
Their wordsExercise is the number one thing you can do to improve your long-term physical and cognitive health. The physical benefits are well documented, but it also comes with an array of cognitive benefits as well.
↗An Exercise Program for Life, Not Instagramstevemagness.org
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Their wordsHow hard? This should be easy. You should be able to have a conversation, with just the slightest hint of needing to catch air. If you can’t maintain a conversation, you’re going too hard; slow down.
↗An Exercise Program for Life, Not Instagramstevemagness.org
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No single interval workout is the best, because a variety of intervals can produce similar benefits.
Their wordsDon’t listen to anyone who tells you that there is a special interval training workout that is the best. That’s a lie. We have 120 years of training history that shows we can attain similar benefits with a variety of intervals.
↗An Exercise Program for Life, Not Instagramstevemagness.org
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Their wordsmore than 60 years ago, legendary coach Bill Bowerman coined the Hard-Easy principle, which essentially says after you do a hard workout you need one (or more) easy days to balance things out. Follow that principle. Doing back to back hard workouts, especially for non-elites, is a recipe for disaster.
↗An Exercise Program for Life, Not Instagramstevemagness.org