steve magness workout video

magness has always been great on the message boards, but it's totally obvious that he should go run for some great program like arkansas with great training partners and LISTEN TO the coach! he's just too headstrong. he did great as a senior in high school and now it's been a long time. it's not as if he had to go to a nothing program after leaving rice (which is wrong for him in the first place).

and you have run??

yeah you can stop talking now.

f-in idiot wrote:

and you have run??

yeah you can stop talking now.

this is the attitude that i hate. i mean how do you know i havent run 3:53? and what does that matter anyways? just because magness ran 401 in hs dosnt mean i have to stop talking now. it is a good accomplishment. but the guy dosnt piss excellence and guys like you who sit around kissing his ass only encourage him to keep on isolating himself in his own little "i am the great steve magness" world.

get over steve magness. if he wins region we will all be happy. i will be happy. but still... if he wins region then it is time for the next challenge: nats, then the next challenge: track, if he goes 3:40 its time for the next thing: to go 3:35 etc etc.

if he gets last a region, then dust off and i hope he gets them in track season. i really am rooting for the guy. but he needs to just realize that hes not a big deal, and that he can be doing a lot better then he is. thats all.

ps. i am a fast runner. but it is not a big deal. i want to get faster and i take advice and work with my team trying to be the best damn runner that ever lived. if i was slow. i would not dwell too much and just see what i can do... while listening to others and coaches and just running my butt off.

a texas boy wrote:

... if he wins region

Let's not get carried away.

i was reffering to "i love peeps." but you still didnt answer the question. you just said oh im fast. more like oh im cocky and i think steve thinks he is a god.

i have talked to steve many times. you have no idea what he is really like. he is humble and just excited to have a great workout. jeez he didnt make this thread so stop critizing him for everything.

when pigs fly wrote:

a texas boy wrote:

... if he wins region

Let's not get carried away.

Well, it might not be likely. But it would be cool. and i hope it happens.

well first of all steve didnt do anything to hurt you guys so i would stop slamming him about this workout video. why does the video bother yall so much. if you really hate the video you should make one yourself. i'm sure it'll be great...NOT

so stop arguing about running styles

well first of all steve didnt do anything to hurt you guys so i would stop slamming him about this workout video. why does the video bother yall so much. if you really hate the video you should make one yourself. i'm sure it'll be great...NOT

so stop arguing about running styles

f-in idiot wrote:

i was reffering to "i love peeps." but you still didnt answer the question. you just said oh im fast. more like oh im cocky and i think steve thinks he is a god.

i have talked to steve many times. you have no idea what he is really like. he is humble and just excited to have a great workout. jeez he didnt make this thread so stop critizing him for everything.

i have run just over 4 on the track 1500. that is good. it is not is fast as steve and everyone on this board will probably say i suck so much and stuff, but why does that matter?

look, im only saying that steve is good. im saying i wish his head wasnt so hard so he could learn from someone. and i wish he wasnt so sensative because he wouldnt look like a head case when he gets so defensive.

you are the one being all defensive. stop talking and run more. i know 12 yr old kenyans that could run that. wow

ok. i didnt mean to critisize and i didnt mean to rant. i know my 1500 (which is my best race) will need a lot of improving if i ever wanna even make it to regional. so i guess i better go focus on running. bye.

there you go thats all you have to do. it doesnt feel good to get bashed on does it, so everyone stop doing it too steve.

If someone was really humble, he wouldn't post his workout on the internet for all to see. Posting a sharpening workout on Youtube just screams "Look at me! Look at me!" Exactly what Magness has been doing for the past several years. It's old.

Some like the fact that he posts every aspect of his training online, but he has to expect critics when he does something like that. And a lot of the advice has been sound (find a good coach, join a strong team or club, etc.) but Magness and his jock-sniffing pals choose to ignore it, not show improvement, and draw even more critics out of the woodwork. At first it was mostly a suggestion to find a serious program, but not it's total frustration at the lack of awareness on Steve's part.

Most of the critics (myself included) wish we had the talent to run 4:01 in high school, and cannot imagine someone slaving away all these years with no measurable gain. His starts and stops, stints at various schools and training alone obviously aren't working: he needs to find someone to give honest, objective feedback and start using that talent.

I finally watched the video. What's the big deal? Maybe he just wants to do things his own way and knows that there are people who are interested in seeing that.

People on this site are always asking about how people who've done well train. Magness does that and people complain?

HRE wrote:

I finally watched the video. What's the big deal? Maybe he just wants to do things his own way and knows that there are people who are interested in seeing that.

People on this site are always asking about how people who've done well train. Magness does that and people complain?

QFE

Looking at the predicament Magness finds himself in one wonders if there should not be a Hanson-type program for US 1500 meter runnerd. Right now if Magness were a Marathoner he would probably be one of those 2:18 guys trying to break in. Hanson has proved they can turn this type of runner into a solid 2:12-2:14 runner.

The US wastes a lot of 3:40+ 1500 meter talent. With a Hanson program for middle distance maybe those 3:40 runners could become "A" standard guys running 3:35 or under. There is no reason why a talented runner like Josh Spiker has to disappear after college.

smog monster NJ wrote:

The US wastes a lot of 3:40+ 1500 meter talent. With a Hanson program for middle distance maybe those 3:40 runners could become "A" standard guys running 3:35 or under. There is no reason why a talented runner like Josh Spiker has to disappear after college.

there is a reason:

it's called being sucky. all those 3:40 guys like spiker and dan wilson are just taking up space in any pro circuit race in Europe

A 3:40 is sucky! Only 15 people nation wide break that time each year. Magness has been trying to run that time for nearly 5 years now. I guess Lagat and Webb make it look easy. It is still a time few get.

If e22222 thinks 3:40 is sucky maybe we should go to a local track and time him for a 1500. I bet he won't run 3:40.

Why couldn't Spiker and Wilson develop into 3:35 runners. Also, doesn't Europe have B races they could run in.