Arthur Lydiard Lecture Meadowbank Stadium Part 2

[@billobyrne]

Gold from a top coach. Thanks for this.

[@nitfitnit]

Great video, thanks for posting!

[@user-ro2ee7cn3f]

Very-very good Video... Thanks.. The Best Coach Arthur Lydiard....

[@gammondog]

I'm surprised that he didn't believe in interval training. I wonder how he might have felt about Fartleck training. For a couch so well versed in the physiology of training, he was surprisingly flexible when it came to putting away the stop watch and judging the training run by how the athlete felt in a given day.

[@nickmoore5105]

He mentions fartlek training in this video at 16:45 and recommends a hilly fartlek as a method of anaerobic training.

[@nickmoore5105]

Regarding interval training - I think it's important to point out that repetitions on the track are a key part of his method. What he was against is letting the watch dictate the training, and doing intervals according to a pre-set schedule of lap times. "If you want to time them, time them, but don't let the watch control the training."

[@sduggan_leeds]

absolutely this

[@johna2323]

He is spot on...there’s no way you can say 3 as opposed to 4 reps or 1 as opposed to 2 mins rest...you can’t do it...it has to be based on the athletes subjective feel...and coaches instinct and sense. Why 3 not 4 or 5? All of it is unique to each individual

[@APBCTechnique]

Peter Coe modernized middle distance training. You can’t run sub 1:41 jogging 100 miles a week and then 6-8 week build up on the track. Seb Coe never ran over 50 miles most weeks.

[@rodconstable2095]

Middle distance generally refers to 800 metre to 10,000 metre races. Training for the 800 - 1500 is generally lower total volume and higher intensity than the 5000-10,000 races.

[@zacsborntorunrunningadvent3441]

They ran Sub Threshold/ comfortably fast run training up to 1hr- 1 to 2 x a wk in the 10wk Marathon Conditioning phase. They didn't just jog. 3:45/km was their mon or sat pace 16.1k 1hr 3/4 Effort / Strong Aerobic effort slightly slower or at their tapered /peaking respective marathon pace Modern scidnce puts it in the 75-80% heartrate reserve. Karvonen method.