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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Adding a watch and pace metric to a run can shift its worth from the experience itself to the metrics.
Add 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.
stevemagness.orgSaid 5 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Exhaustion is easy to produce in training, so being exhausted should not be treated as proof that a workout was good.
Making 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.
stevemagness.orgSaid 28 Sept 2026This on korrents
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Adding a watch and pace metric to a run can shift its worth from the experience itself to the metrics.
Add 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.
When the Watch Makes the Call Said 5 Oct 2026
Exhaustion is easy to produce in training, so being exhausted should not be treated as proof that a workout was good.
Making 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! Said 28 Sept 2026
One bad night of sleep is generally compensated for, though it stacks the deck slightly against performance.
One 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? Said 7 Sept 2026
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Exercise is the number one thing a person can do to improve long-term physical and cognitive health.
Exercise 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 Instagram Said 11 Aug 2026
For health, the long easy sessions should be easy enough to hold a conversation during, and going harder than that is too hard.
How 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 Instagram Said 11 Aug 2026
No single interval workout is the best, because a variety of intervals can produce similar benefits.
Don’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 Instagram Said 11 Aug 2026
After a hard workout the body needs easy days to balance it out, and back-to-back hard workouts are a recipe for disaster, especially for non-elites.
more 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 Instagram Said 11 Aug 2026
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Newsletter Steve Magness Their newsletter on performance.
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