SlowFatMaster wrote:
Hi Antonio:
I agree that there are contradictions. In Healthy Intelligent Training (endorsed by the Lydiard Foundation) there is a chapter that compares John Walker's training to El Guerrouj's training. On page 186, John Walker's Tuesday afternoon workout during a typical week in his general conditioning period is:
1000m x 5 (2 min rec) at 3k-5k race pace.
This another problem of the Lydiardism.
Let me show you. Lydiardism, they are the only ones that know what´s Lydiard training precisely. When Lydiard training is debated no one knows what´s Lydiard training except the Lydiardism, that by the way they say different about the same Lydiard training issue. They refuse to accept that someone out of Lydiard might understand Lydiard training. Even when it´s documented that Lydiard did that sentence or that training, they are the ones that share the gold pot of the treasure that is Lydiard training.
However, when it´s one method out of the Lydiard one, El Guerrouj training in this case, they think different. They think that they got kowledge and expertise to understand the other different methods. But what´s the authority that in Healthy Intelligent Training endorsed by the Lydiard Foundation what so ever they got to debate about El Guerrouj training and useit to produce some argument, consideration that any other doesn´t related to Lydiard training.
It would be bettered that the Lydiardism only would be confined answer and comment about Lydiard training, and that they would mind just their own business instead instead of produce arguments from other methods that are just "fait-divers" to fool the innocent. Anyhow the moment they comment other training out of Lydiard, they are exposed and they can´t contest that someone like me might debate Lydiard.
The ultimate question is: does Lydiard ever show the interest of doing intervals during the build-up block PUBLICLY ? Where is the document that Lydiard contradicts himself and says that we might consider every options, and sometimes we might do intervals and sometimes we don´t depending of the individual need ? Where is documented that Lydiard doesn´t prescribe the marathon-build up aerobic first build-up block ? Where it´s documented that Lydiard permits to skip the hill phase. Documented not whether be written by the author of Healthy Intelligent Training or not by the Lydiardism “Highly Intelligent Verbal Prove” that starts with "Lydiard said… (to me in private)”.
Finally, the excuse that Lydiard never expressed about the use of intervals in the aerobic phase is justified because he doesn´t want that some people might think that his main training includes intervals, or that he never ever expressed that some people might work out of the marathon build up training because he didn´t want that the large range of public will think that his main training doesn´t include the 100mile marathon block either, if that is true, the best consideration is that Lydiard was a dishonest coach that didn´t say what he taught, and consequently psychology got a name for it. But i really don´t think so. All unproved and undocumented contradictory norms that the Lydiardism tell us "He says...in private" it´s just their imagination and lies, the attempt to save Lydiard from the modern training criticism.