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I thought I’d pass along a journal article I wrote back in grad school that just got published in the July issue of the International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training. It’s a quick practical article looking at tibial stress fractures and runners. In particular, what the possible causes may be and some potential things…

This is a blog straight from email requests. It’s not exactly about training, but one of the most frequent and perhaps most important question I get asked is how the heck do you spot the good stuff from the crap… A while back I read the book Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks,…

I was down in Palo Alto this weekend for Stanford’s Payton Jordan Invite. While I was there, I took some quick high speed video (210fps) of several of the races. Below you’ll see video from the fast heats of the Women’s 5k, the Women’s 1500m, and the men’s 1500m (heat 1 and 2). Enjoy! Women’s…

I’ve used the example of hydration during running to demonstrate the natural cycle of under/over emphasizing until we kind of naturally move towards the sweet spot. What I’d like to do now is use hydration as a way to show error in interpretation. When we rely on scientific data, we tend to look at the…

Here’s a quick “study” I had to do for a sports psychology class in grad school. It was just a quick thing I had to put together for class, but it’s kind of interesting because I got to look at elite runners, which no one ever does. So I figured I’d share it for those…

It might seem like I’m being overly dramatic with the title, but the following two concepts are critical for understanding running form, or even human movement in general. With the rise in popularity of running form and the increase in running form guru’s that accompanies that, I it was a good time to share what…

Non-responders-Why Science conforms to the average: Research likes dealing with the average. If you fall far outside the average, you might be in trouble. For years, only the average received any attention. For instance, if you looked at an intervention study and the average group improved by a significant 30seconds, then whatever the intervention was…

An article I wrote on training lactate clearance and utilization is out now in the April issue of Running Times Magazine. In the article, I talk about how and why to us two of my favortite workouts called alternation and blend workouts. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Here’s a selected workout that Kenenisa Bekele did around 10 days before his 2007 10k world championship win, the same race which I wrote about on an earlier blog. (This comes from a presentation from Barry Fudge, who is a sports scientists who was doing work with Bekele during this workout) 8x (400 in 52-54,…

Step away from your specialty This month a scientific journal article came out that discussed what it would take physiologically to run a sub 2 hour marathon. This paper first grabbed attention a couple months ago when it was discussed on such websites as http://www.sportsscientists.com/. While the paper was interesting, what caught my opinion were…

Posts by stevemagness

Stress Fractures in Runners: Risk Factors and Prevention

How to spot bad science and fads- Determining whether an idea is worthwhile:

High Speed Video from the Stanford Payton Jordan Invite

Hydration- A lesson in interpretation

Motivation in Elite and High School Runners

The most important information you will ever read about Running Form: Passive vs. Active

Non-responders-Why Science conforms to the average:

Training lactate Clearance and utilization: How to use alternation and blend workouts

Kenenisa Bekele’s workout: How do we get there?

Step away from your Specialty