ALBERTO SALAZAR AFTER THE 10K
by Amby Burfoot
August 5, 2012 5:59 am
http://olympics.runnersworld.com/2012/alberto-salazar-after-the-10k/
Here's what Alberto Salazar, coach of the gold and silver medalists, had to say after the men's 10,000-meter final. After Salazar's quotes are quotes by silver medalist Galen Rupp and Americans Dathan Ritzenhein (13th) and Matt Tegenkamp (19th).
ALBERTO SALAZAR: “We do speed consistently year round. We never give the body anything that it’s not accustomed to. I don’t believe in systems like the Lydiard system where they times of no speed. The body likes consistency. We always have some of it in the mix. We just use different intensities at different times of the year.”
The distance between traditional, outdate, past Lydiard training is aerobic build-up without fast pace, without intervals during that period and modern training that does it ion every period of the season being that “fast than just aerobic pace” with different stimuli in different training periods of the season, but done ever, as Salazar uses.
But Lydiard training training refuses what Salazar uses. Fast training all season long.
I give a dam what you think about Northern Star or what you don´t, what you think about me or you don´t, what´s your training or what don´t.
I just comment on training methods, not individuals. Of course that training methods are built by individuals.
By the way, i got contact with Hal Higdon training long ago, in the early 70s, and in my opinion, Higdon training is superior than Lydiard - just my opinion. The reason it´s that Higdon is the link from past training to modern training, namely in the kind repetitions he advices. As far as i know he was one of the first coaches to understand that specific intervals relate to race pace are the must of distance training and might be done at race pace approx and not "faster than race pace, But well we were in the late 60s, early 70s, actually we are in the early 10s of the XXI Century, it´s supposed that training methodology did improve from the past to present refinement.