Read the full post on The Science of Running. Training is about balancing opposing demands: speed and endurance. What happens when you mess up the balance? It’s often a disaster. In this…
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Episode 179: The 10 Timeless Guiding Principles of Distance Running Training
Read the full post on The Science of Running. We often get lost in the details. Arguing over the final 1%, whether we should run at lactate threshold or critical velocity? Whether…
Episode 178: Running Half Truths: Advice to Be Ignored
Read the full post on The Science of Running. Every sport has the items that many of us seem to believe, that are ingrained in the history of the sport, that have…
Episode 177: Sympathetic Overdrive- How to Get Out of Stressing Out!
Read the full post on The Science of Running. 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…
BONUS: Sink or Swim, Survive or Thrive
Read the full post on The Science of Running. Welcome to this special bonus issue. Steve does his best revisionist history impression, telling you the story of Paul Bear Bryant’s famous Junction…
Episode 176: Individualizing Training in Larger Settings
Read the full post on The Science of Running. Individualizing training is easy at the professional level. You’ve got a handful of athletes, all very good, and can adjust as needed. In…
Going to Exhaustion. Even When You Aren’t Prepared.
Read the full post on The Science of Running. Let me tell you about one of the hardest physical things I’ve done in the past few years. A time when I ran…
Episode 175: Fast Losers-Racing vs. Time Trialing
Read the full post on The Science of Running. Racing is a skill. How do we get comfortable in a pack? Running from the front, or perhaps stuck in the back? How…
How to Build Tough Teams
Read the full post on The Science of Running. “We believe that being elite is not about how talented you are. It is about how tough you are,” wrote Urban Meyer in…
Care and Support: The Secret to Great Performance
Read the full post on The Science of Running. 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…
The Desire to Quit is Normal. Here’s What We Do About It.
Read the full post on The Science of Running. We often hold up elite performers as some sort of superhuman. Impervious to the doubts and insecurities that the rest of us face….
Episode 174: How to Do Hard Things: The Art of Suffering
Read the full post on The Science of Running. How do you handle pain, fatigue, and discomfort? Do you look for a hole to step into or do you work your way…
Episode 173: The Difference Between Extraordinary and Mediocre
Read the full post on The Science of Running. What game are you playing? We all may think we are all running the same race. A 1,500m race in high school is…
Episode 172: The Importance of Leaving Room to Grow
Read the full post on The Science of Running. One piece of advice I always give coaches is: Always have somewhere to go. The younger your athletes, the more important this is….
Episode 171: The Headcase phenomenon: Stop Blaming Athletes for Poor Performance
Read the full post on The Science of Running. “He’s a headcase!” We’ve all heard it as coaches. Maybe we’ve even said it. In this episode, Jon and Steve discuss why this…
Episode 170: Everyone is an Outlier
Read the full post on The Science of Running. We are all an experiment of 1! We often talk about individualization in coaching. In this episode, we talk about the contrast between…