Since the success of his New Zealand athletes Snell, Halberg and Magee at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Arthur Lydiard's name has been synonymous with the best training methods used by the world's top middle and long-distance runners. Instructing runners in Finland, Mexico, Venezuela, Denmark, Japan, the USA and New Zealand, Lydiard has continued to refine his methods, and this manual contains information on exercise physiology, diet, injury prevention and cure, discussion of Lydiard's methods and revised training schedules.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By r prady
Format:Paperback
Excellent book, I've long been a fan of his methods and i can safely say that this is a very good summary of them. it explains his methods and reasons for them and gives 'guide' schedules for everything from 13-14 year old sprinters to senior athletes competing over the marathon.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
As good a training guide as any you'll find but training programs are difficult to read
31 Jan 2012
By Rene Borg
Format:Paperback
Perhaps the fact that I have consumed several other Lydiard books and articles cloud my view, but I found "Running with Lydiard" the clearest, most precise and focused of the Lydiard books.
As always, you simply lean back and enjoy the real-life examples and brusque prose of the old master, but there's memorable sections here such as Lydiard's recollection of how they tactically outmanoeuvred their competitors at two consecutive Olympics, how to understand whether you are middle-distance or long-distance material and advice on running form, nutrition and cross-training that has often been repackaged in recent years as new and innovative but was known to Lydiard thirty years ago.
"Running with Lydiard" is short and benefits from having "Healthy,Intelligent Training" as a companion volume as it's low in production value and in graphics. The training program layout is quite confusing and takes up around 68 of the book's 207 pages.
The main selling point for me was the clear descriptions on what type of pace and intensity should be in the aerobic phase, Lydiard talks extensively to this but I'll offer the below quote as a taste:
You may have been under the impression that marathon type training involves slow running. This is not so, apart from the supplementary work. The top-class runners do not jog around in this phase of their preparation but run at speeds from 3 3/4 minutes to 3 1/4 minutes per kilometre. There are still some long-distance runners who believe they should run no faster than, say 4 1/4 minute pace and that to run faster will waste effort and produce poorer results; again, this is not so.... Read more ›
As always, you simply lean back and enjoy the real-life examples and brusque prose of the old master, but there's memorable sections here such as Lydiard's recollection of how they tactically outmanoeuvred their competitors at two consecutive Olympics, how to understand whether you are middle-distance or long-distance material and advice on running form, nutrition and cross-training that has often been repackaged in recent years as new and innovative but was known to Lydiard thirty years ago.
"Running with Lydiard" is short and benefits from having "Healthy,Intelligent Training" as a companion volume as it's low in production value and in graphics. The training program layout is quite confusing and takes up around 68 of the book's 207 pages.
The main selling point for me was the clear descriptions on what type of pace and intensity should be in the aerobic phase, Lydiard talks extensively to this but I'll offer the below quote as a taste:
You may have been under the impression that marathon type training involves slow running. This is not so, apart from the supplementary work. The top-class runners do not jog around in this phase of their preparation but run at speeds from 3 3/4 minutes to 3 1/4 minutes per kilometre. There are still some long-distance runners who believe they should run no faster than, say 4 1/4 minute pace and that to run faster will waste effort and produce poorer results; again, this is not so.... Read more ›
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was hoping for a more detailed training method book. What I found was some interesting ideas not explored. I got an overview of Lydiard's training method and nothing else.
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