Lydiard for all

nicetrack

Thanks.

That wallpaper is not actually our track - although that is what it probably looked like 20 years ago. The track is in good shape however we could use 2 replacements and 1 new one in this city.

More like this:

http://www.flotrack.org/article/5101-Master-Run-Coach-Interactive-Lydiard-Coaching

Introducing the interactive tool for training the Lydiard way - great for coaches and the self-coached too.

I'm using this program as I'm training for Boston. It's pretty cool.

That's awesome. Good luck with Bawston!!

run4good wrote:

I'm using this program as I'm training for Boston. It's pretty cool.

We first anticipated to launch this in September in which case we would have had enough time (24 weeks) to get ready for Boston. Of course, we couldn't. We actually have the Boston Special especially with the final week with the actual race being on Monday. We were able to tweek the final week a bit to get Saturday race and Sunday race ready but couldn't get around to finalize the Boston Special as yet. We thought, oh well, we have plenty of time till the Boston 2011... ;o) But if you're interested, shoot me an e-mail personally; I'll send you the Boston final week program.

Wetcoast:

Thanks as always.

No probs. I used it to see what I was prescribing to an athlete was correct and it simply - pretty much - recreated exactly what I was doing already, but turns out I was corrected my seconds on a couple of paces....which it turns out was more accurate anyway....hmmm...very solid.

Frik.

If that made any sense at all.

Anyway it was spot on save for the AT pace by a couple seconds...

soon Ly for triathlon Ly for swimm and Ly diet book for diabetes

soon on the charts Ly for dogs Ly for chickens and the new Ly shampoo

Interesting you should mention that.

He wrote a book for swimming long before the Foundation was around.

He also was asked for advice by the Japanese figure skater's coach before the Nagano Olympics, where she medaled....a rowing team's coach sought his advice too and benefited from it. Nobby will know the stories better, but the point is endurance training is endurance training - sure it is sport specific, the human still needs mitochondria, developed muscles and coordination to play any sport, save for Poker and Horseshoes....I think.

And just to be clear:

$49.95 for one year is a discounted price however, just to get as many people to see how cool Master Run Coach really is, until January 31st - so only a few days left, the 1-year unlimited usage subscription is actually $26.2, that's it!

;o)

Happy PBing.

What a genius. One more step and we will know he got the solution of the world economic crisis. Hoops. I think he gave some advice about earth climate change before everyone else.

Wetcoast wrote:

Interesting you should mention that.

He wrote a book for swimming long before the Foundation was around.

Does he knew to swimm ?

How can we all ignore such a bestseller for swimming.

Every library every swimming pool every swimm coach does that bestseller. Yesterday i got the bus and what i saw. One pall reading one swimming book. That one.

It did not stop there. Another book about yoga, another about arts and another about politics.

I forget that one. Despite he hated fish food he wrote one book about fish dishes.

Wetcoast. Do you know what is the meaning of the world integrity. I guess you don´t know. Some people without integrity they try to get some profit or fame no matter what is the product or the service. Some people are able to sell their own soul to make some profit. Poor in spirit is what they are. It is the case.

TO address the other sports, it's about physiological reactions to training - you know, stimuli, just like running. For endurance sport, you can apply the same training principles across the board. You will need a strong aerobic base regardless of the endurance-based sport you are competing in. Swimming, cycling, rowing, skating, race-walking, nordic skiing on and on we can go. The principles are the same.

The differences are in the specific sport's nuero-muscular needs for that activity. So Kristine Yamagucci (sp??) as a figure skater, skated more. She didn't go running with the Lydiard boys. The rowing story went something like this:

The team, like most teams had the boats hauled to the site where they rowed from for training. Lydiard asked if they put the boats in the water near the school and rowed to the site would that be possible, it was, they did and they won having added the distances in training.

So the similarity is obvious. The differences from sport-to-sport are only because the sport is different, not human physiology. So neuro-muscular training needs to take place.

ever hear of automation? This is the practice of practicing a lot, doing the same thing over and over again so to develop the ability to do it better, towards perfection or at least developing the ability to automatically do that move well, if practiced well. A pro golfer (obviously not an endurance sport) may wack 1000 balls a day, a tennis player may move through the exacting motions of a backhand being fed balls by the ball machine for hours...a great chess player will have played chess so much that by the time they become a world-class chess player, he will have seen every combination of moves sometime in his life and will...wait for it...anticipate better, the human brain is amazing. Up until you get to the specific part of your quality phase of your sport, the similarities in training are striking.

As for integrity, I think you may be stretching reality a little. I am pretty open about being a member of the Lydiard Foundation and about coaching by the Lydiard method, so why would I not write about the Lydiard method?

Wetcoast, 3 words for you. Antonio is back! He'll diss Lydiard for the sake of dissing Lydiard no matter what. Ignore him. He's just jealous nobody laid out red carpet for him to become Lydiard foundation's advisory staff. Don't you remember in elementary school, if the kid can't join a group, he would badmouth them. That's Antonio Cabral at his best.

Please go to my website, so you too, can learn to Run Like Chit, the same way that I do!

Wetcoast wrote:

TO address the other sports, it's about physiological reactions to training - you know, stimuli, just like running. For endurance sport, you can apply the same training principles across the board. You will need a strong aerobic base regardless of the endurance-based sport you are competing in. Swimming, cycling, rowing, skating, race-walking, nordic skiing on and on we can go. The principles are the same.

Thanks for your information. I was right. Soon we will see one book about climate change because the climate it's aerobic.

On another thread Renato Canova the Master wrotes

So, the first solution of the problem is TO FINISH TO LOOK AT THE PAST (Lydiard, Marathon training of 40 years ago, and other historical methodology), because, like every human activity, also in training there was an evolution.

We recognize that the base of out current knowledge, and of our methodological studies, is in the training experiences of top coaches as Gerschler and Reindell for Intervall training, as Igloi, as Van Aaken, as Cerutti, as Lydiard. But, also if we recognize that Enrico Fermi was the first discovering the possibilities of the atom, the current science is very much more advanced.

Resume to what concerns your post subject.

L is outdate. But some of you still insist that is update. How can be outdate for the running sport and be update for the swim whatever ? No way.

Only the kind of coach ignorant and pretentious might think that someone that knows about distance running eventually does the training skill and the training knowledge to every other sport, despite the oether sport can be aerobic.

It´s your mistake.

Another question. Did you teach the best way to lace the shoe because it´s aerobic energy, endurance, the same physiology than distance run ?

Anyhow you are so coward integre that you never discuss with Renato. might be Renato needs to be one Foundation member and start to post on the Foundation board and then you will reply.

I forget that one. You take most of the time contest about anonimous posts. But Renato posts with identification. Might be that if Renato would post anonimous here on LRC then you will be integre to reply.

I didn't get a chance to go through the whole thing but maybe you guys should cut out the part about coaching Mary Decker Slaney. Yikes!

Well she was a solid athlete despite the news of the times, then. You can replace her with Gabe Jennings. Dick Brown did coach others.

The point is, not strictly who he coach so much as the program he built - read on, it is interesting.

So Canova says that Lydiard forms part of our base of current knowledge, giving him equal billing to Gerschler and Reindell, Igloi, Van Aaken, and Cerutty.

That is indeed high praise.