Cheers Nobby. I for one am happy to applaud Arthur an try to interpret his ideas but I never intended for this thread to become an Arthur "shrine".
Seeing that this is also about Dr Daniels, I am really interested in what some of the athletes, Coaches say about some of his workouts and ideas.
So I will kick it off ?
I know with some of my younger athletes telling them they are to run say 4 X 800 at 1/2 or 3/4 effort really gets the questions going. The first being "How fast (or slow !) is that"
The kids want a time I find, so many times I have "guestimated" and pretty much we have been okay with that. However, over the last year or so I have had lots of communication with Tinman and his "Critical velocity" discussion.
I also find Tinman has a pretty good "handle" on both Arthur and Dr Daniels. In fact I managed to get him a copy of Arthurs original "Run to the Top"
I have used some of Tinmans ideas incorporated in the athletes training.
I would loved to have discussed them with Arthur but I have gone with the premise "Is this Anaerobic ?" Answer "No" . So lets run with it.
We have been successful.
One thing I have always believed is Arthur was far more open minded than many give him credit for. The only time I saw him critical of others was over the amounts of Anaerobic work being pushed into athletes
When I was in consultation with him in the 80's and bounced around training ideas, he was always supportive and wanted to know how things went if you tried them.
As I said above his stock answer would be "Don't get too Anaerobic"
So for Dr Daniels and others. Can you help us with some of the VDOT ideas ?, How would they fit in with Arthur's 1/2 or 3/4 efffort tables.