Coaching Successfully Series Part 2: Defining Your Training Approach

About this episode

Steve Magness and Jonathan Marcus discuss how coaches should define a training approach while avoiding common pitfalls.

Steve Magness and Jonathan Marcus discuss how coaches should define a training approach without falling into two traps: having no coherent philosophy by mixing everything, or rigidly copying one system with no flexibility. They argue training must account for environment and reality (altitude, heat/humidity, sea level), athlete population, and psychological constraints, not just physiology or…

People in this episode

Host: Steve Magness

Guest: Jonathan Marcus

Topics covered

• coaching
• training approach
• athlete psychology
• flexibility in training
• environmental factors

Keywords

• coaching philosophy
• training systems
• athlete population
• psychological constraints
• environmental factors

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