092 - How to Get Off the Achievement Treadmill
Today's episode draws on conversations with an Olympic gold medalist, an ultrarunner, and a Buddhist author to discuss a potential way to think about achievement that might help you focus on the proce...
18 Nov 202415min
091 - Keep Calm and Practice On: Buddhist Lessons on Performance (with Stephen Batchelor)
Two skills that will be helpful to anyone trying to master a craft or achieve excellence (or, frankly, make it through life): the capacity to be with difficulty, and an ability to show up consistently...
14 Nov 202447min
090 - Use the Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule) to Simplify Your Life
On this episode of The Coach Up, you'll learn how the Pareto Principle can be used to help you get clarity on what's most essential in your life — from work to exercise to diet to relationships — in o...
11 Nov 202410min
089 - Marathon 101 with Steve Magness: Insights & Strategy
Today, Clay asks Steve to answer all of your most pressing marathon questions: what to know before signing up; what he thinks the Boston Marathon should do about qualifying standards, how to think abo...
7 Nov 202458min
088 - Flow: The 8 Factors of Optimal Experience
In his 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi laid out the ideas that would give birth to the idea of the "flow state." In the years since, the flow...
4 Nov 202414min
087 - Training Tips for the Aging Athlete
We are, each of us, getting older every moment. (Scary, we know!) So how should we think about adjusting our training as we age, particularly if we're still hoping to perform at a high level? That's t...
31 Okt 202441min
086 - The Coach Up: Should You Do "All-Out' Workouts?
Steve Magness is back on The Coach Up to discuss the nuances of doing "intense" or "all-out" workouts. Since the explosion of High Intensity Interval Training, there has been much discussion about how...
28 Okt 202413min
085 - Quitting: When to Give Up (and When to Push On)
Knowing when to quit, and when to push on, is as much an art as a science. Where is the line between normal fatigue or difficulty, and harmful discomfort? It's a question we all have to navigate in ma...
23 Okt 202444min
