Ray wrote:
Perc could not tolerate Stampfl and the Lincoln Elliott races were that hate personified.
You're right, but he did admire Lincoln despite his being coached by Stampfl, in Percy's book 'Athletics How to Become a Champion' he refers to Lincoln as "this great Australian miler". And unlike Stamfl/Bannister, Percy did actually coach Elliott.
opinion wrote:
Stampfl overtrained his athletes. So it was lucky Doubell injured his achilles and couldn't train leading up to his OG Gold.
That was pretty standard in those days. Stampfl, Igloi, Timmons pretty much loaded their runners on intervals and then rested them 3 to 7 days before a big meet. Ditto if you look at the training logs of Zatopek and Gordon Pirie.
I have a copy of Stampfl's coaching book and a typical week was 3 to 4 straight days of intervals followed by 3 to 4 days of aerobic running. Not quite the hard/easy concept but less intense than Zatopek's 5 to 7 days straight of intervals.
Lydiard was the main guy who had a dedicated mulitple week sharpening phase. Also Lydiard and Bowerman were early proponents of the hard/ easy concept when it came to the interval training phase.
To be fair Lydiard ran the risk of burning his mid distance runners out during the base phase from reading Snell's account of the training. But since it was the base phase it allowed for enough time for the runner to recover before the main track season.
Xxxxxxxx wrote:
That was pretty standard in those days. Stampfl, Igloi, Timmons pretty much loaded their runners on intervals and then rested them 3 to 7 days before a big meet. Ditto if you look at the training logs of Zatopek and Gordon Pirie.
I have a copy of Stampfl's coaching book and a typical week was 3 to 4 straight days of intervals followed by 3 to 4 days of aerobic running. Not quite the hard/easy concept but less intense than Zatopek's 5 to 7 days straight of intervals.
Lydiard was the main guy who had a dedicated mulitple week sharpening phase. Also Lydiard and Bowerman were early proponents of the hard/ easy concept when it came to the interval training phase.
To be fair Lydiard ran the risk of burning his mid distance runners out during the base phase from reading Snell's account of the training. But since it was the base phase it allowed for enough time for the runner to recover before the main track season.
So Lydiard was one of the first to prepare dedicated tapers? Doubell was lucky - the achilled injury cost him two weeks, or should i say it actually gave him something instead of costing him anything, in that particular case.
Possibly Cerutty and Lyiard were so vocal against all year round interval because in those days it was done to excess.
There is a famous cycling coach from Australia called Charlie Walsh. he was renowned for two things. One he produced world champions. Two he took in 30 odd cyclists in and a year or so latee the one left standing was a world champion. Are track and field athletes treated in the same way?