Philosophy 301- Designing a Training Program
This Course is part of The Scholar Program. You are welcome to purchase this course individually, but if you purchase The Scholar Program membership for $29/month you will gain access to every program in the HPW Academy of Scholarship. You can find more details on The Scholar Program here.
What can you expect from Philosophy 301?
In this course, we will take you from start to finish; every step along the way of designing a full training program. This isn't a course telling you to do X workouts during Y period. It's about walking you through every single decision that a coach has to make in setting up the training plan (and adjusting it!). This
- The Fundamentals of Training
- Attacking adaptation from multiple directions
- The Build, Maintain, Connect Philosophy of Training
- Determining training based on event plus the individual.
- The Warm-up and Cool-down
- Singles, doubles, or long runs
- The various workout types
- Periodization models
- How to write workouts and get creative doing so
- Tips, tricks, and tools to manipulate your workouts to maximize adaptation
- Complex to simple: figuring out what matters and focusing on that.
How will this course be delivered?
Through a combination of video lectures, readings, powerpoint presentations, podcast style audio recordings, and more. We attack teaching from multiple directions in order to help the student absorb the material best.
What we guarantee:
We will continue to develop and curate content that we think is valuable for the coaching community. We promise to continually update this content so that it is the best coaching resource on the planet. You'll be the first to hear about our lessons in coaching high school, college, and elite runners.
Your Instructor
STEVE MAGNESS is the bestselling author of Peak Performance: Take Advantage of the New Science of Success and The Science of Running. He is a coach to some of the top distance runners in the world, having coached numerous athletes to top 15 at the World Championships and Olympic Games. As well as having coached six Top 10 performances at a major Marathon (Boston, NYC, Chicago). He's coached athletes such as Natosha Rogers, Neely Spence-Gracey, Sara Hall, Mark English, Jackie Areson, Brian Barraza, Sarah Crouch, and many more. He currently coaches at the University of Houston. Known widely for his integration of science and practice, Magness has been on the forefront of innovation in sport. He serves as an adjunct professor of Strength and Conditioning at St. Mary's University.
JONATHAN MARCUS is the director and co-founder of High Performance West. He's developed athletes to national championships, Olympic Trials Qualifying standards, and national records. Some of the athletes he has coached include: Tara Welling, Nicole Blood, Eleanor Fulton, Mckayla Fricker, Daniel Herrera, and more. Previously Jon was the Head Cross Country Coach at Clackamas Community College and an assistant Track & Field/Cross Country Coach at Portland State, University of Portland, and Warner Pacific College. He graduated with a B.A. from Columbia University in the City of New York in 2006.