I open one exception to reply to this your post because you did it before I start my several post replies to Nobby.
You forget one point. When I wrote what you quote me I was thinking the Lydiard principles specifically, not about the training principles as abstract, or about every other training principles, but Lydiard specifically. Lydiard (as I see his training) does define strict training variants, strict organization of that training variants, and often when he writes or speaks about different training proposals of his own training organization or his training variants he refuses to accept.
Once I read one of Lydiard interviews that he says “I got no time spend and to deal with Peter Snell after 68 olympics because Peter refuses to run the long run every week and wants to miss it”. Did I read wrong ? Does the interview isn´t true ? See how Lydiard was not open to training changes from his main training method. Recently some of you, you did some attempts to show me a different Lydiard, more open to adjust the training to individual needs. The way he treats with peter Snell about the long run shows what is the Lydiard strict training concept: strict use and strict discrimination of training organization and strict use and strict discrimination of the training variants and his own training concepts consequently. Does he changed completely ? Among so many books, conferences, posts on LRC (how many), every other source of information what is Lydiard-public, show me something BEFORE LYDIARD PHYSICAL DEADH that I might conclude that i´m wrong, and that his training method permits to adjust to the several needs, or training individuality. I don´t want Keith book whatever, I want a trustful source Lydiard-the-man/Lydiard the coach himself that permits to think that he isn´t the strict-discriminate Lydiard kind of training that we did imagine for decades.
You said that Lydiard doesn´t differentiate between athletes, be 800m to marathon, without considering the distance event or the individual type. Right ? This is Lydiard range of training variants, very similar, quite equal to every kind of runner, every kind of distance event.
Yes it´s true that I did participated in the thread describing "2 kinds of runners" with John Hadd. It´s also true that one clear conclusion from that thread, is the requirement to adapt the training to the athlete. But this is MY and JOHN HAAD´s training principle, not the Lydiard one. Lydiard doesn´t concede that training principle of training individualization as Hadd and I do we do. Consequently when I do the need of training individualization procedure i´m IN my training principles not OUT of my training principles. When I do training individualisation it´s MY OWN training principle, i´m coherent and in agreement of my training principles, but Lydiard or Lydiard followers they don´t, because in the training principles of Lydiard training doesn´t exist the training individualization principle.
Besides, now you say that Lydiard in private he did interval training during the aerobic block, and recently I knew about the non-competitive week competitive week periodisation, another training variable that contradicts all that Lydiard wrote and no one during so many years did notice that training “adaptation or training need”. As far as some of us we continued to comment on Lydiard I suspect that in the future might be one day we discover that Lydiard did miss the hill training, the long run, the 100 miles etc. Finally we will discover that we Lydiard did fight with vigor, all he says in his conferences, all his life style to refuse some training organization and some training variants , is a lie. This is what I mean by Lydiard out of characterization. To be out of his own main training principles, as I would be out of my owns if in the name of training adaptation I would start to miss the interval training during the build of aerobic condition, that wouldn´t be my training, that would be Lydiard training eventually. Further I will come to the training need of individualization on my next part of my Nobby.
With all respect I want to say my opinion about why do you lack so many information about modern training. It´s because you and many of you are self-centered in Lydiard training. I can´t communicate in posts and threads all I know about different training out of the Lydiard one, I´ve been investigate for decades and try to learn since 1964. I also can´t “project you”, my own individual training experience. I did coach for decades and did coach several hundreds of runners in different decades, from different continents, from different citizenships, different gender, from the top ones 1:48/800m to 3:40/1500m to 3:59/mile to 13:20/5000m to 2h09m/marathon to poor performances, 20:00/5000m to 5:22/5000m, to 3h46m in the marathon. I also tried to learn systematical about coaching since I was 10 years old and i´m 56.
Or I advise you to get out of the Lydiard paradigm for some period, not to deny Lydiard, but when you study another method, don´t try to relate everything to your Lydiard referential, get yourself in the position that “ignore” Lydiard temporarily.
Do you really think, that one individual, one coach, be the best one, be outstand, be genial Lydiard might have been, he is so perfect , he is so good, that no one else among the coaches might contribute to revised his training method or have another different idea that works better than Lydiard training ?
Do you really think that many thousand and thousand of coaches that act differently than Lydiard they are all kind of "poor" coaches, stupid coaches somehow and he is the only one on the top of the training method ?
Do you really think it´s possible such thing ? I don´t see nothing similar in the humanity every the human field you might consider, from art to science, from every human knowledge or talent. I´ve known several genius, from music to every other art, those of the science, the Nobel prize, after some time they are all kind of dismiss, or overtake somehow. Even genius like Einstein other scientists have different ideas somehow. Do you really think that Lydiard can resist to many more decades without be overtake by other training methods ? Are you so conservative that you think that Lydiard resists ?