Podcasts about Arthur Lydiard

This week, we were joined by Mike Beeman, an experienced runner who has completed 110 marathons, including 47 consecutive Boston Marathons. The group discussed Mike's extensive running career, touching upon topics of how training, race shoes, and marathon culture has changed over the years. With a lifetime best of 2:35:42 in 1982, Mike's achievements speak for themselves. Above all, Mike brings an extremely refreshing mindset to running - cherishing every race, training run, and friends he's made throughout his journey. Mike's positivity attracted attention on TikTok with inspirational content, gaining over 14,000 followers. He emphasizes the importance of staying humble, encouraging others, and maintaining a positive attitude in running and life. The group discusses: Training and Nutrition in the Past - High mileage training(100+ miles per week) during peak years - Arthur Lydiard's training philosophy: An approach that emphasizes running by feel and fostering a strong foundation through long, slow miles (LSD) -Nutrition was less structured; ate "whatever I want" -No gels or specialized nutrition during races; primarily water and occasional sports drinks -Limited technology: no GPS, heart rate monitors, or sophisticated timing methods Current Approach to Running and Training -Adopts a sustainable, modified Jeff Galloway run-walk method -Focuses on longevity and injury prevention -Incorporates cross-training, including cycling and strength training -Works with a physical therapist for strength and mobility exercises -Uses a Garmin watch but doesn't rely heavily on data Social Media Success -Gained popularity on TikTok with running-related content -Over 14,000 followers, primarily women who appreciate his wholesome, relatable content -Creates inspirational and humorous videos about running and aging -Has been approached by brands like Brooks for sponsorship opportunities Philosophy on Running and Aging -Emphasizes the importance of staying active and adapting to changes in ability -Encourages runners to set age-appropriate goals and celebrate achievements at any level -Believes in the power of cross-training and diverse physical activities -Stresses the importance of humility and supporting other runners, regardless of speed or ability

For the first few months of 2025 I am going to re-release some of the most listened to Run Culture Podcast Episodes over the past 5 years! We live in a fast paced, information dense world, attention spans are fleeting. Sometimes we ‘look' but do we ‘see?'Lately, I have loved slowing down and re-listening to past podcasts, allowing them to marinate better. It's incredible how each podcast can mean something different to me today than they did 5 years ago!In 2020, I chatted to Dr. Keith Livingstone- It was an amazing insight into the Principles of Arthur Lydiard.“Champions are everywhere....they just need to be trained correctly." -Arthur Lydiard If you want to hear a fantastic insight into the history, training and coaching philosophies of Arthur Lydiard and his pupils, then there is no better man to chat to than Keith Livingstone and that's who we have on the show today.This is a lengthy one, Keith's a fantastic story teller, I was spell bound, ideal for your next long run!Dr. Keith Livingstone not only was a high level distance runner himself in his day running; 14:04 for 5000m and 29:19 for 10,000m but was also a highly sought after chiropractor, running coach and now author of three books! These include; 1.) Healthy Intelligent Training- the proven principles of Arthur Lydiard, 2.) Champions are Everywhere-The Schedules (A practical user friendly summary of Healthy Intelligent Training) and 3.) Staring down the Beast- A book recounting Keith's survival journey after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor (glioblastoma multiforme) in 2007. Keith also has a fantastic blog at; www.drkeith.com.au, where he has a number of fantastic interviews, blogs and If you are interested you can also purchase his books.

Thanks to LMNT for sponsoring this video! Head to https://DrinkLMNT.com/FLO to get your free sample pack with any purchase. William Bart, a passionate recreational runner, Boston Marathon qualifier, and advocate for mindful training, shares his transformation from frequent injuries to embracing low heart rate running, and finding joy in consistency and intentional living. In this conversation, we discuss: Lessons learned from MAF low heart rate training. Mistakes William made in training and racing. Advice to non-elite athletes looking to improve.    If you'd like to learn more about the Personal Best Running coaching program, check https://www.PBprogram.com/    Watch this full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SrI6GmzAAy4      CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Introduction 0:38 - Free PDF Low HR Training Guide  2:32 - LMNT Sponsor 3:45 - William's Running Journey and Lessons from Arthur Lydiard 12:08 - Balancing Base Building, Speed Work, and Avoiding Burnout 20:07 - William's Advice for His Younger Years 22:47 - Intuitive Training and Learning to Adjust Based on Body Feedback 30:31 - Transitioning to Low Heart Rate Training 37:15 - Chicago Marathon: Challenges, Learnings, and Fueling Strategy 41:09 - Pacing and Nutrition Plan 48:06 - Root Causes of Injuries and Incorporating Strength Training 52:35 - Daily Routines for Injury Prevention and Performance 57:14 - Speed Work: Balancing Intervals, Tempo Runs, and Injury Prevention 58:53 - Tips for Stronger, Healthier, and Happier Running   LINKS & TOOLS MENTIONED ► Download the Free PDF Low Heart Rate Training Guide: https://extramilest.com/subscribe/ ► Precision Fuel Gels 15% Off Code FLO15: https://visit.pfandh.com/FLO15  ► Andy Wheatcroft's advice: https://youtu.be/IIGKMA3b8dc?si=p69Nrvu7OWIZiXqg  ► Low Heart Rate Training Guide: https://youtu.be/taO8kKsx448?si=yEqeXp4XkvqvSSbl    FIND WILLIAM BARTH HERE: ► Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/47813247    YOU CAN FIND ME, COACH FLORIS GIERMAN HERE:  ► Our Personal Best Coaching Program that William is part of: https://www.pbprogram.com/  ► Free Weekly Running Newsletter: https://extramilest.com/subscribe ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/florisgierman ► Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/1329785  ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florisgierman  ► Website: https://extramilest.com/  ► Website: https://pathprojects.com/flo ► Podcast: https://extramilest.com/podcast/    Affiliate Disclosure: I may earn commissions if you purchase items via my affiliate links. "As an affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases.” Affiliate links do not increase cost to you. Also, you do not need to use these links. You can also search for these same items in Amazon or on any search engine/shopping site of your choice and buy/research them that way.   ABOUT THE EXTRAMILEST SHOW: A podcast and YouTube channel where host Floris Gierman interviews world class athletes, coaches and health experts on the topic of how to become a stronger, healthier and happier athlete.   More info about our Personal Best Running Coaching Program can be found at https://www.pbprogram.com.    SUBSCRIBE and hit the bell to see new videos: https://bit.ly/Flo-YT

Today on the Run Culture Podcast, I chatted to one of the most ‘well read, knowledgeable and innovative' coaching minds in current day distance running; Brad Hudson. The interview was quite high level, it covered a lot of territory and did bounce around a fair bit, many times I didn't know what direction it was going to go which made it fun. Since starting the Run Culture podcast some 5yrs ago, I've had some interviews I've really cherished and this one ranks right up there as one of my favorites, I had a blast trying to keep up with this running genius.   Brad is a well-known running coach (who's currently living in LA, USA) and was a former elite (2:13 marathoner) distance runner himself.   He is recognized for coaching many top-level athletes, including; Dathan Ritzenhein, Shayne Culpepper, Jason Hartman, Parker Stinson, Benita Johnson, Allie Kieffer, Jorge Torres, amongst many others….   There were many take home messages, including:   - How Modern elite training has changed in 2024? - Why we should all be 'Experimenting, Innovating and Evolving' our training? - Some of Brad's key Endurance Training principles. - The importance of customized and responsive training plans. - The Importance of Sleep, Psychology, Nutrition, Stress management. - His many coaching influences (too many to list, he's a lifelong learner and learns from anyone if he feels it could be useful). Some mentioned, include; Mark Wetmore, Bill Dellinger, Renate Canova, Arthur Lydiard, Percy Cerutty, Antonio Cabral, Jack Daniels, Nick Bideau and Pat Clohessy. - And many other pearls of coaching wisdom, including his two book recommendations- Ryan Holliday's ‘Daily Stoic' and Marc Bubb's book; ‘Peak: The New Science of Athletic Performance That is Revolutionizing Sports'   If anyone wanted to reach out to Brad for ‘Online Running Coaching' Brad's email is: ⁠hudsoncoachingmarathon@yahoo.com⁠   Thanks once again Brad, you were a joy to listen to and have certainly got me excited about my own coaching!

Today on the Run Culture podcast I chat to renowned exercise physiologist and running coach; Greg McMillan. We specifically talk about the importance of individualizing training. Over the years Greg has used a simple evaluation to help thousands of runners train more effectively, avoid injury and peak when it counts! He shares how you can do this too!Here are three questions every runner should answer:-How do I respond to certain training? Runners respond differently to different types of workouts and mileage. Are you a speedster, endurance monster or a combo runner?-How do I recover from certain training? Recovery isn't static. What workouts do you recover quickly from, what workouts do you take longer to recover from?-How do I adapt to certain training? What workouts give you a quick fitness boost (fast-adapting), what workouts take a bit longer (slow-adapting)?Greg McMillan is a renowned running coach, exercise physiologist and founder of McMillan Running. Greg has had some incredible mentors, including; Arthur Lydiard, Joe Vigil, David Martin, Gabriel Rosa and Jack Daniels. For a number of years Greg coached an Adidas sponsored pro team in Flagstaff, Arizona called 'McMillan Elite' or 'Team USA Arizona'. As you will see Greg has been a student of the sport his whole life, he is an incredible wealth of running knowledge and I am so grateful that he could share some of this with us today! If you want to learn more about; Greg's coaching services, try his world famous pacing calculator or just continue to be well informed about running, be sure to go to; www.mcmillanrunning.com

Today, I had the distinct pleasure of engaging with the insightful John Davis on the Run Culture Podcast. We ventured into his coaching techniques, influenced by the greats like; Arthur Lydiard, John Kellogg, and Renate Canova. Our dialogue then largely focused on the groundbreaking concept of 'full spectrum training'—a vital approach for runners looking to enhance their training methods and understand the nuances of periodization. I specifically reached out to John to discuss this topic, as I believe it holds the potential to empower many runners in their training journeys. A huge thank you to John for generously imparting his wealth of knowledge! John is a runner, coach, scientist and author of the book: "Modern Training and Physiology for Middle and Long Distance Runners" He also has an amazing website called; www.runningwritings.com Be sure to explore his outstanding book and blog for more invaluable insights (links below): Newsletter: https://runningwritings.com/news Website: https://runningwritings.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Training-Physiology-Long-Distance-Runners/dp/0615790291/ X: https://x.com/JDruns Here's a link to the percentage-based training article we discussed: https://runningwritings.com/2023/12/percentage-based-training.html

Emma Coburn is only 33 years old, but sports a running resume that's hard to match. She has won 10 National Championships in the 3000-meter steeplechase. It almost seems that USATF should rename the event the “Emma Coburn Steeplechase.” Coburn has also won an Olympic bronze medal, and World Championships gold. Her husband, Joe Bosshard, is now her coach, and also coach to a small but select elite group training in Boulder under the name Team Boss. Unfortunately, Coburn sustained a serious injury in an early-2024 competition, and required ankle surgery. That means she'll miss this year's Olympic Track Trials and the Olympic Games in Paris.  Bad luck for sure. But also a good position from which to discuss the inevitable high and lows of global racing, which Emma does in this podcast. She also talks about: # Her dog Arthur, and how he got that name in honor of the great New Zealand coach, Arthur Lydiard. # How she was born and raised in a small, high-altitude Colorado town, and spent her youth pursuing various outdoor activities. (Sorta like a young Kenyan.) # How she ran her first steeplechase only because her father insisted she enter a couple of events to justify their lengthy car drive to the meet # What she learned from her college coaches at the University of Colorado # Why she decided to be coached by her husband, the person “who knows the most about me” # How she's dealing emotionally (and financially) from the missed Olympic opportunity this year # Why she plans to be a steeplechase runner forever, rather than switching to another eventYou can learn more about Emma Coburn by following her on Instagram. Where To Find “Running: State of the Sport” Use your smartphone to download podcast apps from Apple, Spotify, Pandora, or YouTube Podcasts. Once you've selected your favorite app, search for "running state of the sport." With your computer, tablet, or smartphone, you can also listen direct to “Running: State of the Sport” at the below internet links. Apple Spotify Audible Pandora I Heart Radio YouTube "Running: State of the Sport" is brought to you by MarathonHandbook.com and RunLongRunHealthy.com. Marathon Handbook is the world's leading marathon website, with a special focus on trustworthy running information and free, runner-tested training plans for all ability levels. "Run Long, Run Healthy" is Amby's weekly newsletter with the newest, most scientific, and most useful training advice for runners.

Welcoming Thomas Smith, CEO of the Halberg Foundation, to Purposely, where he shares his organisation's mission to empower young people with disabilities through sport. The foundation also hosts an annual awards ceremony, a premier event in New Zealand, recognizing and honouring outstanding achievements in sports. Thomas, or Tom as he is known, offers insights into his life and career journey, which includes his upbringing in the UK and his relocation to New Zealand with his Kiwi wife. The Halberg Foundation, founded by middle-distance runner and Olympian Sir Murray Halberg ONZ, MBE, has its roots in a transformative moment. Murray's attendance at a sports reporters' function in Canada in 1962 inspired him deeply. As a guest speaker, the Olympic champion runner was moved by the event's true purpose: to help disabled children realise their sporting potential. Murray Halberg's own athletic achievements, despite facing personal challenges, are remarkable. From winning the gold medal for New Zealand in the 5000 meters at the 1960 Olympics to clinching gold medals in the 3 miles events at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games, his journey embodies resilience and determination. Despite a severe injury during his youth rugby days that left his left arm withered, Murray's transition to running only seemed to fuel his motivation. Under the guidance of coach Arthur Lydiard, he broke through, winning his first national title on the senior level in 1954. Tom's upbringing in Cirencester in the Cotswolds and his education in sports management at Hallam University in Sheffield, England, laid the foundation for his career in sports. Reflecting on his early experiences as a personal trainer, Tom underscores how they shaped his approach to disability sports and the limitless possibilities for individuals in this realm. Prior to his move to New Zealand with his wife and young family, Tom held notable positions in the UK, including involvement in the 2012 Paralympics and roles such as National Partnership Manager for Special Olympics Great Britain, Senior Manager Disability at Sport England, and National Growth Manager Disability at the England & Wales Cricket Board. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mark-longbottom2/message

Marathon runner and athletics coach Arthur Lydiard's running programme fundamentally changed the sport. We speak to Olympian and coach Barry Magee. Barry was known as one of the "Lydiard Boys".

Michael Voss won the New Zealand 10,000 metre championships in Dunedin at the weekend, which was part of the Dick Tayler Anniversary athletics meeting that took place in the city. It will be 50 years ago next week (25 Jan 1974) that Dick Tayler won the 10,000 metres gold medal at the Christchurch Commonwealth Games. Tayler went into those Games in good form, but wasn't expected to outperform the likes of Engand's David Bedford and Dave Black, and the Kenyan star Richard Juma. He told sports reporter Barry Guy that he was fortunate to have legendary coach Arthur Lydiard backing him.

Martin Cox, a long-distance runner for four decades and a coach for over 20 years chats with Huw about all things running, from his own experience which you can find out more here:- https://www.vo2maxcoaching.com/coaching/ we chat about the whole of the running world as well as the controversy of how mechanical doping was around in 2016 when Nike Eliud Kipchoge, Feyisa Lelisa, and Galen Rupp — were secretly given Vaporfly prototypes, which were conveniently made to look almost identical to other Nike marathon shoes, and they ended up sweeping all three Olympic medals.. Here's the notes on that https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/01/by-wearing-vaporfly-prototypes-eliud-kipchoge-galen-rupp-shalane-flanagan-are-all-guilty-of-mechanical-doping-in-2016-will-anything-be-done-about-it/ lots more in the show as well as how he trained under the late great Arthur Lydiard the man who invented jogging and produced some fantastic athletes. This episode is brought to you by Oladance Wearable Stereos.Huw reviews here:- https://youtu.be/WlqgcWLxFT8?si=V9r4BcQpUJHxIyNh Bag yourself some here :- https://www.oladanceshop.com/ Now! If you can't wait until the next episode you can head over to the Get Up & Run Podcast Facebook Group and be given the title of a ‘Getupster' ….. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1485938781949401/?ref=share_group_link thanks for listening and GET UP ‼️‼️‼️‼️

Dr. John Hellemans is a well know sports-medicine doctor, triathlon coach, and author based in Christchurch, New Zealand.  He has coached a large number of internationally successful triathletes, and fostered New Zealand's global reputation in the sport. He has contributed to the wider sports community as a medical director for Triathlon New Zealand, Athletics New Zealand, and as a medical officer for a number of sports academies, training centres, and New Zealand triathlon teams competing at international events. In addition to his coaching, John is an accomplished athlete: He was the World Masters Triathlon Champion eight times between 1994 and 2012, and an elite triathlon representative for New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games in 1990. As a person who has been around in the triathlon scene since the very start and very much engaged in the NZ endurance community, this was a really interesting conversation with  Dr. Hellemans about: The training methodology of Arthur Lydiard (a well noted fan of polarised training) Basic week concept  Strength training for endurance athletes (spoiler: he's not a big fan!) Heart health for endurance athletes Coaching philosophies As a masters triathlon world champion, John also outlines how his approach to training has changed in his later years   To find out more about Dr. John Hellemans, you can go to his Twitter - @JohnHellemans He is a regular contributor to Gordo Byrn's ‘Endurance Essentials'    Dr. Hellemans has also written several books: Never, Ever Give Up? A Memoir, by John Hellemans Tour Aotearoa. A Biker's Tale, by John Hellemans   He also recommended a few other books: Perform under pressure by Dr. Ceri Evans The Art of Resilience by Ross Edgeley   As with many coaches, Dr. Hellemans is very approachable. If you would like to contact him please use the following email address:  tridochellemans@gmail.com   Many coaches view Arthur Lydiard as the forefather of Zone 2 training. To find out more about Lydiard and his training, visit the website for the Lydiard Foundation.   To contact Beth regarding Life Coaching, please email her at Info@BethanyWardLifeCoaching.uk.   To leave a review of the podcast on Apple podcasts CLICK HERE.   Sports Nutrition questions - if you have a sports nutrition question that you would like answered on the podcast, please email it to me via Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com.   Join our SWAT/High Performance Human tribe using this link, with a happiness guarantee! You can watch a brief video about the group by going to our website here, and join our SWAT High Performance Human tribe here. Purchase a copy of my High Performance Human e-book featuring more than 30 top tips on how to upgrade your life. If you would like to help offset the cost of our podcast production, we would be so grateful. Please click here to support the HPH podcast. Thank you! Visit Simon's website for more information about his coaching programmes. Links to all of Simon's social media channels can be found here.  For any questions please email Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com.

You (Only Faster) puts a new spin on the training book. In this book you get some good training principles but Greg uses them to guide you through a 6 step process to modifying a training plan, that you may have gotten online or from a book, to better suite you as a runner. So if the plan follows good training principles, why would you need to modify it, right? Well, you're an individual who responds and recovers differently to different types of workouts. Although everyone should be doing all types of workouts, the mix of how they are put together can be changed to better suit your individuality and give you better results come race day. Greg's 6 steps create the framework for the book, and he describes each step in several chapters.Greg McMillan has been around for decades and probably doesn't need an introduction, but just in case you've never heard of him or his website we're including a short version of his accomplishments. Greg has a masters degree in Exercise Physiology where his research focused on the determining factors of distance running performance. A student of the sport since he began running in high school, he continues to apply advances in sports science to his training programs. As with his study of sports science, Greg continues to learn from the athletes and coaches of yesterday and today. He vigorously studies the great books on running and is eager to be around successful coaches and athletes to learn from their experiences. His mentors include the late, great Arthur Lydiard (who he toured with on Lydiard's last US tour), Olympic Coach Dr. Joe Vigil, Peak Running Performance founder Guy Avery and USA Track & Field physiologist Dr. David Martin. Renowned by runners and coaches across the globe, Greg has one of the most diverse coaching resumes, with equal success coaching new runners, age groupers, Boston Qualifiers, and Olympians. He is also the founder of McMillan Running which includes his website with the famous running calculator that many runners have likely already used.If you would like to check out the McMillan Running website, you can find it here: https://www.mcmillanrunning.comIf you're looking to get the book for yourself, and prefer ordering from Amazon instead of Greg's website, you can find it here: https://a.co/d/52XKtatSupport the showAny feedback or suggestions on this review or any of our other podcast episodes would be greatly welcomed. Leave us a review using your favorite podcast player or contact us on social media.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/runningbookreviews/Twitter: https://twitter.com/reviews_runningInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/runningbookreviews/ Podcast webpage: https://runningbookreviews.buzzsprout.com If you have been enjoying the podcast and want more, you can find some extras on our By Me a Coffee site! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AlanandLiz

This week's episode of The Sunday Shakeout features a tutorial on baseline mileage. It has become clear since the era of guys like Arthur Lydiard that mileage is one of the most important things to track and a training plan that features relatively high mileage will build your fitness just about, if not more than anything else. Some of the greatest marathoners of all time, namely Eliud Kipchoge are great examples of this. He runs around 120 miles per week and that is how he breaks world records. You would think that because mileage is such a great way to build fitness, that people would know HOW to increase mileage. But in today's modern world of simple formulas and instant results, that just isn't the case. Thus, the 10% rule arose. In a nutshell, the 10% suggests that you should increase your weekly mileage by 10% every week. However, this approach is both unproductive and unsafe. There is a better way to increase mileage. Thus, the importance of baseline mileage. In this episode, I discuss: Baseline mileage 101 - what, how, where, how to apply it The flaws of the 10% rule How baseline mileage demonstrates that training is complex, not a simple formula The role of consistency and progression with regards to baseline mileage Thank you so much to all of my listeners! Thank you Feedspot! Feedspot is a brand monitoring and ranking online resources like podcasts and forums using a competitive intelligence solution that provides insightful information so that people can best know what to watch and listen to. They reached out to me and congratulated me on the fact that The Sunday Shakeout has been selected by their panelist as one of the ⁠Top 25 Running Podcasts for Beginners!⁠ Thank you Feedspot so much! I am overjoyed that The Sunday Shakeout has already made it to places that I didn't think were every possible. It's all thanks to you guys, the listeners. Week after week, I make these episodes for the greater good in the running community and you guys give me the support, drive and motivation to continue doing so. Thank you all so much for the support and I can't wait to see what is next for The Sunday Shakeout. Contact Nicholas: thesundayshakeout@gmail.com

Welcome to Episode 67 of the Trail Running Ireland Podcast! On this weeks show we look at how we can apply the great Arthur Lydiard coaching approach to the Trails and Mountains with Rene Borg from Running Coach Ireland and we welcome winner of the Maurice Mullins 80k Trial Race for the World Championships in Austria in June, Ricki Wynne for one of the most inspiring interviews you´ll hear this year.Everybody get your running gear on, lets go!https://www.patreon.com/trailrunningirelandpodcast

Dr Glenn McConell chats for a second time with Professor Michael Joyner from the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA. Michael blew me away with his absolutely amazing knowledge on past athletes and coaches and their endurance training methods. Very different types of training can result in similar results. His running Haiku: Run a lot of miles, some faster than your race pace, rest once in a while. Michael was first on the podcast on October 9th, 2022. Michael's Twitter: @DrMJoyner 0:00. Introduction2:25. Foot races in the 1700s and 1800s (running 5 min/mile!)3:56. Pheidippides: run from Marathon to Athens etc4:49. Tarahumara Indians from Northern Mexico5:05. Arthur Lydiard's (Peter Snell etc) training methods7:45. Rudolf Harbig, Zatopek, Percy Cerutty, Herb Elliot9:50. Bob Schul (intervals twice a day) and Ron Clarke10:05. All roads lead to the 1964 5000m at the Tokyo Olympics11:35. Dellinger/Bowerman: Mixed training methods like today.13:10. Very different types of training can result in similar results13:30. His running Haiku: Run a lot of miles, some faster than your race pace, rest once in a while15:30. Kipchoge training very similar to Bill Rodgers and Frank Short (1970s)16:13. Derek Clayton: high mileage at close to race pace19:02. Several ways to reach the same VO2 max, LT and economy21:48. Long slow distance runners raced a lot. Eg Ed Winrow23:35. Year round training: Parvo Nurmi etc24:20. Glenn Cunningham: intervals. Rudolf Harbig26:01. Sweden during WWII, Zatopek interval training27:16. In the 60s push back against intervals, LSD29:12. Swimmers: Igloi style interval training with short recoveries32:35. Would runners do better with a modified Igloi/Schul style program?35:05. Michael's impressive cycling training/ hard-easy39:02. “Peloton art”/ “Strava art”39:27. David Costill: reduced swimmers training volume43:17. How high a VO2 max can the average person attain?45:46. Arthur Lydiard/all round athletes etc48:37. Develop as all round athletes before specialize50:00. Overreaching/Overtraining52:40. Takeaway messages53:54. Outro (9 secs)Inside Exercise brings to you the who's who of research in exercise metabolism, exercise physiology and exercise's effects on health. With scientific rigor, these researchers discuss popular exercise topics while providing practical strategies for all.The interviewer, Emeritus Professor Glenn McConell, has an international research profile following 30 years of Exercise Metabolism research experience while at The University of Melbourne, Ball State University, Monash University, the University of Copenhagen and Victoria University.He has published over 120 peer reviewed journal articles and recently edited an Exercise Metabolism eBook written by world experts on 17 different topics (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94305-9). Connect with Inside Exercise and Glenn McConell at:Twitter: @Inside_exercise and @GlennMcConell1Instagram: insideexerciseFacebook: Glenn McConellLinkedIn: Glenn McConell https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-mcconell-83475460ResearchGate: Glenn McConellEmail: glenn.mcconell@gmail.com Subscribe to Inside exercise:Spotify: shorturl.at/tyGHLApple Podcasts: shorturl.at/oFQRUYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@insideexerciseAnchor: https://anchor.fm/insideexerciseGoogle Podcasts: shorturl.at/bfhHIAnchor: https://anchor.fm/insideexercisePodcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/4025218Not medical advice

Www.Run4prs.com for a free week or personalized workouts! Many people show off their monthly mileage totals on social media. It is a great way to track your progress in some respects, but in other respects, it is easy to get ‘caught up in the numbers game' of running. Two runners of the same abilities might run vastly different peak mileages in marathon training yet run the same finishing time. It is less about what your weekly mileage is and more about finding the sweet spot of mileage for you during this season of your training. 1. Progressive overload: more usually is better until it's not 1. Aerobic base: science Legendary coach Arthur Lydiard's philosophy was that it all starts with mileage. That's because endurance training stimulates many physiological, biochemical and molecular adaptations. All his training programs would consist of an 8-10 week base building phase. 1. stimulates more fuel (glycogen) to be stored in your muscles 2. increases the use of intramuscular fat at the same speed to spare glycogen  3. improves your blood vessels' oxygen-carrying capability by increasing the number of red blood cells and hemoglobin  4. creates a greater capillary network for a more rapid diffusion of oxygen into the muscles  5. increases mitochondrial density and the number of aerobic enzymes through the complex activation of gene expression. This increases your aerobic metabolic capacity. 2. Time of feet: science Time on Feet follows the principles of Lydiard training to reach peak performance. This is achieved by using a systematic approach to training. The emphasis is on conditioning in the early stages of a programme, in order to give the individual a feeling of a 'tireless state.' This is looked at as a crucial phase if achievements are to be made later. 2. There becomes a point where running more is not productive 1. Overtraining signs Constant niggles Feeling run down Mentally feeling down in the dumps Train smarter not harder:  How much running can you physically and psychologically handle? For example, the mitochondrial enzyme content of rats has been shown to reach its maximum adaptation with running 60 minutes per day, five days per week.  A study published in European Journal of Physiology in 1998 on horses training for 34 weeks found that increases in muscle fiber, # of capillaries number of capillaries per fiber plateaued after 16 weeks of training. After the first 16 weeks, the horses were divided into two groups: a control group and an overload training group, which trained with higher mileage. Both groups increased mitochondrial volume and VO2 max with the increased mileage over the next 18 weeks, but there was no difference in those variables or in muscle fiber area and capillarization after 34 weeks despite the two-fold difference in training volume between groups over the final 18 weeks. Clearly, there is a limit to muscles' adaptive response to training. If you look at the training data of elite athletes, you find that the optimum training volume for the world's best athletes lies somewhere between 75 and 110 miles per week What is REDS syndrome? Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-S) syndrome, or what's more commonly known as the Female Athlete Triad. Not eating appropriately for the amount of energy an athlete expends

Arthur Lydiard once said, ‘There are champions everywhere.’ And for good reason, his most famous pupils were local athletes. In this episode, we explore how to give your athletes a chance to reach their potential. And why it’s so important that we give everyone an opportunity to do so, instead of pigeonholing athletes. Steve &…

A long-time friend of Sir Murray Halberg says he was described as having acid, rather than blood in his veins. The athletics legend has died aged 89. He's best known for striking gold in the 5000m at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and he was also New Zealand's first sub four minute miler. President of Auckland Athletics Murray McKinnon told Kate Hawkesby he did well at secondary school, but it wasn't until he met the great Arthur Lydiard that he excelled. He says Halberg told him he would have just been an average runner and won a few national titles had he not met Lydiard. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How has Japan produced so many great marathoners over the years? Nobby Hashizume helps us answer that question  with his vast knowledge of Japanese running history and his intimate understanding of the Arthur Lydiard method of training, which transformed Japanese marathoning in the early 1960s. Nobby went from being a high school athlete in Japan, to studying under, and living with Arthur Lydiard in New Zeland, to coaching for Hitachi Ltd. in Japan. He know lives in the US and runs Lydiard Training and Academy as well as Running Wizard training system. Nobby is hosting a training clinic in St. Louis MO November 11-13 - see link below for details:https://www.lydiardacademy.org/lydiard-clinicCheck out Running Wizard training plans here: http://www.runningwizard.net/Follow the show on Instagram @marathonpodcast

Timo Mostert is one of the best high school coaches in the country. Timo's boys at American Fork HS (Utah) have been a force to contend with at the regional and national level since 2009. At the 2020 RunningLane XC National Championships they set the national record for fastest average 5K at 15:00.99. Timo has also coached 22 individual state champions including Casey Clinger, the 2015 and 2016 NXN champion. He credits all this success to a change in his training methods, a change (or return to his roots rather) that was inspired in large part by the work of the legendary Arthur Lydiard. We spoke at length about his own running career, his mentors in the sport, and his interpretation of Lydiard training.————————————Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or through this link on the web:https://www.spreaker.com/show/steadfast-running————————————If you're enjoying the podcast and want to show your support, please rate or write a brief review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steadfast-running/id1457597546————————————-Support my work:Venmo: @jonathan-mederos ————————————-Subscribe to my free newsletter or sign up for free coaching:www.steadfastrunning.weebly.com—————————————Join my Strava run club:https://www.strava.com/clubs/1062468Or search for “SteadFast Running”—————————————To connect with Timo:cavemanxc.blogspot.com—————————————To connect with me (Jonathan Mederos)Instagram: @steadfast_running Twitter: @coachmederosEmail: run12795@gmail.com

Da 1960-tallet nærmet seg markerte to trenere fra Australia og New Zealand seg med noen av verdens beste løpere. Plutselig så alle mot Oseania. Arthur Lydiard ble kanskje den mest kjente treneren gjennom alle tider. Vi får en ny historietime med Thor Gotaas hvor han forteller om trenerlegendene og deres berømte elever som Peter Snell og Herb Elliot. Vi byr også på et kort intervju med Olympisk mester og verdensrekordholder Joshua Cheptegei etter 12.57 i Eugene. Og Narve Gilje Nordås og Jacob Boutera snakker om sine nye personlig rekorder rett bak VM-kravet. Kristian og Jann forsøker å hjelpe en lytter med å bli fridd til, diskuterer Jakob og Filip Ingebrigtsens løp i USA, tre norske kvinner i stor fremgang og Kristian plukker overraskende ukas økt fra treningen til Jann. Hør episoden i appen NRK Radio

The 1960 Olympics in Rome have historical significance for New Zealand, then a little known country of just 2 million people.  Murray Halberg and Peter Snell both in black singlets won gold medals on the track within an hour of each other.  Not long after that their friend and training partner, Barry Magee won a bronze medal in the dark in the marathon. As well as all being Kiwis and friends.  All three men were trained by the great coach, Arthur Lydiard (who had to pay his own way over and was not allowed to stay in the village or watch his athletes. In this short podcast recap, 88-year-old Barry gives us a blow by blow of the greatest day of his life with detail so crisp it feels like you are running alongside him. I can't thank Barry enough for sharing his story with me.  And I hope you guys enjoy it. Dom  

88 year old Barry Magee was, in his own words, only a “decent runner” compared to his training partners in the 1950s.  Then again, his training partners were Peter Snell and Sir Murray Halberg.   (Barry's best 5000m time was 13.39 so you be the judge about his talent or lack of!!).  The three Arthur Lydiard coached athletes went to the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.  Expectation was high for Snell and Hallberg (which they both delivered on, winning gold within an hour of each other).  But Barry was not even expected to be anywhere near the podium for the marathon. Due to the heat in Rome, the marathon time was changed to late afternoon meaning it finished in the dark (running on cobblestones with no streetlights).  This meant Barry had no idea that he had won the bronze medal when he finished in pitch black in what has gone on to be known as one of the greatest marathons of the century! This is an exhilarating story of a golden era of New Zealand athletics, and it was an absolute honor to sit with Barry and have him reminisce. He still coaches to this day and can often be found at the finish line cheering on his athletes.  He is a man who has devoted his life to running.  This is a must listen for any history buffs or running nerds. Big thanks to the sponsor of this episode, the incredible HUAWEI WATCH GT runner.  With this sexy device, you will have access to more data about your run than Magee, Snell and Halberg ever had!!  If you want to find out just what this watch can do, you'll find more info here:  https://tinyurl.com/2p9arp7p Thanks very much for listening.  Cheers,  Dom  

88 year old Barry Magee was, in his own words, only a “fairly decent" runner compared to his training partners in the 1950s.  Then again, his training partners were Peter Snell and Murray Halberg.   (Barry's best 5000m time was 13.39 so you be the judge about his talent or lack of!!).  The three Arthur Lydiard coached athletes went to the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.  Expectation was high for Snell and Hallberg (who both won gold medals on the track within an hour of each other).  But Barry was not even expected to be anywhere near the podium for the marathon. Due to the heat in Rome, the marathon time was changed to late afternoon meaning it finished in the dark (running on cobblestones with no streetlights).  This meant Barry had no idea that he had won the bronze medal when he finished in pitch black in what has gone on to be known as one of the greatest marathons of the century! This is an exhilarating story of a golden era of New Zealand athletics, and it was an absolute honor to sit with Barry and have him reminisce. He still coaches these days with a real passion and enthusiam for his clients (and charges way too little).  He is a man who has devoted his life to running.   I hope you guys enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Cheers,  Dom

La base aérobie (voir épisode 1), n'est que le début du cheminement qui te permet d'atteindre tes objectifs. Que faire ensuite ?C'est exactement ce que nous t'expliquons dans cet épisode ! Nous t'emmenons à la découverte de la pyramide de la performance, créée par Arthur Lydiard, le père de l'endurance moderne. Tu découvriras dans quel ordre, à quel moment… réaliser tel ou tel entraînement (puissance musculaire, fractionné, etc). Mais aussi les pièges à éviter !Des questions ? Commentaires ? Ou juste envie de nous faire coucou ? Une seule adresse : podcast@healthyteamy.com Bonne écoute :-)PS : Clique ici pour voir une illustration de la pyramide de la performance. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Det å løpe hver dag er midt i blinken for noen, men oppleves rigid og tvangsmessig for andre. Vi har alle ting vi uten unntak gjør hver eneste dag, uten at dette oppleves som krevende eller at det generer mye motstand. Pusse tenner er gjerne noe som går igjen når man snakker om runstreak, man vil at det å gå ut å løpe skal være like enkelt som å pusse tenner hver dag. Puste er også noe vi gjør hele tiden og hver dag, det blir først strevsomt dersom vi forsøker å la være. Det er der Tones runstreak er, det er lettere å løpe enn å la det være. Vi snakker litt om at Tone løp etter MAF-metoden det første året av konronapandemien for å bygge en god aerobisk base og ikke utsette immunforsvaret for stor belastning i det Norge stengte ned. MAF står for Maximum Aerobisk Funksjon og er den aerobiske terskelen, i andre enden har vi den anaerobiske terskelen eller melkesyreterskelen.Metoden er utviklet av Phil Maffetone. Arthur Lydiard ble såvidt nevnt i forbindelse med 80/20 metoden - Det var ikke han som var opphavet til den, men hans metode hadde dette litt som form. Han er bl. a. kjent for å ha revolusjonert Finsk landistanseløping mnes han var trener i Finland. 80/20 og Lydiard ble også nevnt. 80/20 – betyr 80% med lav puls og 20% med høy puls (rundt terskel), denne metoden ble systematisert av Stephen Sailer ved Universitetet i Agder og er beskrevet i detalj i boken 80/20 av Matt Fitzgerald. Både Jon og Tone har andre streaker også, som vedlikeholdes hver dag eller på en gitt frekvens. Begge synes dette er en fin måte lage nye vaner på. Når man gjerne vil innføre noe nytt i hverdagen eller gjøre en tydelig endrng.

You've heard it before: go hard, go long. But do we need to go hard all the time? Many people think that harder is better. However, overtraining and overexertion can reduce your gains and also be detrimental to your long-term health. Let go of this mindset and take on a healthier view of your body. Legendary long-distance running athlete Lorraine Moller joins us in this episode to talk about how training and racing should not be about winning at the expense of your own body. It's all about your personal journey of learning more about yourself and growing from it. With the Lydiard approach, Lorraine shares how her career was mostly injury-free. Her body's performance is stellar, proving the merits of her training! 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Harness the power of NAD and NMN for anti-aging and longevity with NMN Bio.  On the Wings of Mercury by Lorraine Moller Listen to other Pushing the Limits episodes:  Episode 27 - Gary Moller - Functional Nutrition Consultant, Elite Age-Level Mountain Biker   Episode 189 - Understanding Autophagy and Increasing Your Longevity with Dr Elena Seranova Episode 183 - Sirtuins and NAD Supplements for Longevity with Dr Elena Seranova Episode 194 - Inside the Mind of New Zealand Olympic Runner Rod Dixon   Connect with Lorraine: Lydiard Foundation | Email   Episode Highlights [05:19] Lorraine's Background Lorraine grew up naturally active and part of nature. She was engaged in the community and local athletics.  At some point, Lorraine became more interested in her school running events and just kept going.  During the 60s and 70s, being a professional athlete wasn't a career choice. It was commonly discouraged and seen as for men.  When Lorraine's talent was discovered, she was brought to a neighbouring town to train. She competed against women a lot older than her. By 16, Lorraine was representing New Zealand. Listen to the full episode to learn about Lorraine's running journey!   [14:37] The Lydiard Approach to Training  The Lydiard approach to training is primarily based on endurance training.  Building your aerobic capacity is the core of the Lydiard approach.  In a way, Lydiard is the father of periodisation. He found what worked and incorporated it into training.  Lorraine shares that you need to understand the principles first then apply your own perspective in training.  [19:52] What's the Overall Picture? Some people get lost when looking at the details. You need to know the overall picture first.  When you don't understand the overall picture, you may overshoot the mark and get burnt out.  We have a culture that thinks more is better.  But training can give you more than the capacity to win.  It's really about the inner journey taking place and what you're learning along the way.  [24:25] Take It as a Personal Journey As you're growing, you are influenced by external factors like other people's expectations.  But you'll also reach a point where you start dismantling these expectations to uncover your true self.  Running was a choice Lorraine made for herself. Through this, she developed a deep connection with her father.  When Lorraine didn't do that well, she kept things in perspective.  She always came back to being in love with the journey of the race.  [28:51] From Track Athletics to Long-Distance Running In Lorraine's experience, long-distance running doesn't make you slower.  You'll need to do the work to run faster, but long-distance running lets you sustain your fastest possible pace.  The body responds to whatever stimuli it receives, which is why a holistic approach is vital for achieving the best results.  The Lydiard training, for example, has different phases for training that consider more than just your endurance.  Don't neglect the foundational elements of mobility, coordination, and strength. [39:51] Let Your Body Adapt  The Lydiard training first started with helping people with cardiac problems fit enough to finish a marathon.  The approach is considerably different from the ones professional athletes consider. But, the Lydiard training is safer long-term.  People can adapt to different situations. You can direct your body into what you want to be.  Pay attention to your body, especially when it gives danger signals. Learn to back off and give yourself recovery time.  Burnout and overtraining usually come from a lack of confidence and trust in your own body.  [46:46] What Keeps Us from Peak Performance Hard work is redundant. Things don't have to be hard — just do the work! Lorraine feels a state of flow and happiness in races. The flow state is peak performance manifesting as coordination of body, heart, mind, and spirit.  People often don't reach this state of flow because of tension and excess energy.  If you don't give yourself time to rest when your body needs it, it will become detrimental to your health over time.  You need to identify the fine line between putting your body under strain to get stronger versus pushing it until you break. [56:22] Don't Let Age Stop You People need challenges and goals no matter their age.  Invite new experiences and learnings into your life.  Don't let age stop you from living your best life.  As we get older, we also accumulate more wisdom.  Society needs to acknowledge the value of elders more from that perspective.  [1:08:11] The Strength and Beauty of Our Bodies   You don't need to be perfect; you just need to inch your way forward on your own time.  There is a way back even if you've beaten your body with overtraining.  Your body is strong enough to regenerate itself.    7 Powerful Quotes from this Episode ‘What I did with the Lydiard system was look at what were the principles, not looking at the hard and fast rules. Because as soon as you start looking at rules you have limited yourself, and it doesn't work that way. It's an experiment of one. Your journey as an athlete is completely unique.' ‘I think the journey of the athlete is a wonderful way to get to know yourself and to be able to tap that in the knowledge and to learn.' ‘That's the beauty I think of the Lydiard training is that It is holistic. It puts all the energy systems and every type of training response in its rightful place. So that you can be at your peak on the day that it counts.' ‘And that's why you go on principles. So you look at what you're trying to achieve, and then how best to achieve it based on the level of that person.' ‘You want a cooperative relationship with your own body and it will give you the information that it has and which is better than if you're trying to perform to these external measures.' ‘We approach a lot of the things that we wish to do, or the things we wish to create in our lives from a state of fear… And then we can't get into this natural flow. ' ‘I think that as we get older, our world should be getting bigger, not smaller. You know, and, and I do think that a lot of what we attribute to old age is just bad habit.'    About Lorraine  Lorraine Moller is the only woman to have run all of the 20th century Olympic marathons for women. She is a 4-time Olympian, Olympic bronze medalist, world track and field finalist, multiple Commonwealth Games track medalist, and winner of 16 major international marathons, including the Boston Marathon.  Lorraine's career started as an exceptional 14-year-old middle-distance runner, coached by John Davies. This continued into a 28-year stellar career as an undefeated master runner. Her wide range of accomplishments earned her title as ‘New Zealand's greatest women's distance runner'. Lorraine credits her mostly injury-free career and high-performance longevity to the Lydiard training approach combined with her unique ‘inside-out process' philosophy towards competition.  Since retiring in 1996, Lorraine has helped establish charity running events in Cambodia, Mongolia and East Timor, served as vice-president of Hearts of Gold and NGO in Japan and co-founded the Lydiard Foundation, which educates coaches and athletes on endurance training. Lorraine also wrote her autobiography, On the Wings of Mercury, which became #2 on the New Zealand Best Seller List.  “Sports is a powerful spiritual path. When one seeks their most excellent self, they invite the noblest of human qualities into their lives.” Interested in Lorraine's work? Check out the Lydiard Foundation.    Reach out to Lorraine through lorraine@lydiardfoundation.org.   Enjoyed This Podcast? If you did, be sure to subscribe and share it with your friends! Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning in, then leave us a review. You can also share this with your family and friends so they can learn why it's vital to listen to their bodies. Have any questions? You can contact me through email (support@lisatamati.com) or find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. For more episode updates, visit my website. You may also tune in on Apple Podcasts. To pushing the limits, Lisa   Full Transcript Of The Podcast Welcome to Pushing The Limits, the show that helps you reach your full potential with your host Lisa Tamati, brought to you by www.lisatamati.com. Lisa Tamati: Hello everyone and welcome back to Pushing The Limits this week. Today, I have another athlete to guest, for a change. It's not a doctor or scientist, it's an athlete. This is an incredible athlete. One of my role models from childhood, Lorraine Moller. Lorraine, if you don't know her, she's an absolute legend. She's a four-time Olympian. She won the Boston Marathon, that's a serious marathon, that one. She has won the Osaka marathon four times. She was in the first four marathons for women in the Olympics, which is an incredible thing. She also was a middle distance runner before doing marathon.  She's also the sister of my good friend, Gary Moller, who I've had on the show previously. Lorraine, she has her insights on what it is to be an elite athlete. Lorraine is still training athletes today as part of the Lydiard Foundation. After Lydiard she came through that school, of Arthur Lydiard's training style. It was really interesting to talk to her and sort of go head to head on ideas around coaching. She is available there for help if anyone wants to find out more.  Yeah, really interesting conversation with a very, on-to-it lady. I hope you enjoy this conversation. I certainly did. 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This is a very powerful program that can help you sort of optimize that so go and check that out at www.lisatamati.com and hit the ‘Work With Us' button.  We also have our NMN, our longevity supplement, an anti-ageing supplement that I'm recently started bringing into the country and from New Zealand or Australia. I've teamed up with molecular biologist Dr. Elena Seranova. This is an independently-certified, scientist backed and developed product. This is a longevity supplement that is aimed at upregulating the sirtuin genes, which are longevity genes in the body and science, it's too complicated to name here. But I would love you to check out those two episodes that I've done with Dr. Elena Seranova. Also, head on over to nmnbio.nz. That's N-M-N-bio.nz, if you'd like more information and more on the science behind it, or reach out to me and I can send you a whole lot of information around it. I've been on it now for over seven months and my mom's been on it too for that period of time. I've had huge changes. Actually my whole family has, and we've all had different things that it's really helped us with. It's working on a number of levels, so make sure you check that out. Right over to the show now with Lorraine Moller.  Hi, everybody, and welcome back to Pushing The Limits. Today, I have an amazing woman to guest, certainly one of my role models, Lorraine Moller, welcome to the show. Fantastic to have you here with me.  Lorraine Moller: Thank you, Lisa. Fantastic to be here with you. Lisa: I'm excited for this conversation already. Before we got recording, we already dealt with some deep topics so who knows where this conversation is going to go, but I think it will go pretty deep. You are a legend in the world of running. You have so many, four times Olympian you've won the Boston Marathon, you've won the Osaka marathon three times, you're an author, you're still involved with running. Lorraine, can you just give us a little bit of your background for starters? When did you realize that you were this amazing, incredible athlete? What was your childhood like? Should we go back that far?  Lorraine: Usually, not in my childhood, although, you know, we were brought up in a time where we were naturally active and very just a part of nature and engaged in the community and local athletics and swimming and you know, all those things. Walked their feet and just went to the beach on the weekends and got sunburned. All those sorts of things. So it was a very lovely, free, close-to-nature sort of upbringing in my little town of Putāruru, right in the middle of the North Island, and where everybody knew everybody and it was just pretty easy-living, and our needs were pretty simple.  Those were the times when we had the quarter-acre section, with the garden out the back and like okay, go get a cabbage for tea. So you'd go cut one and bring it in. So it was, yeah, I suppose it sounds idyllic, but in certain terms that was. It was just a fabulous basis for growing up healthy. I had my trials as a kid. I was in the hospital a few times, and just that separation, and just the emotional eggs have been taken away from my family for long periods of time. It's very lonely.  I think that was, I think, you know, we have things that happen to us, and they sort of set you up. They set your story up, and then it's like, okay, go see what you make of it. So I had, I think, running for me was a real freedom. Something that just, I don't think it was something that I really decided to do. I just think it's something that took me. Lisa: It happened to you. Lorraine: One of the key events was, when I went to high school, and we graduated from the little kiddies athletics, doing 50 yards, 100 yards, you know, yeah, I met all that was. We graduated to being able to do the full 40 yards. In my first full 40 yard race at the local club, I could beat the girls who beat me in the sprint. It took me a little bit longer, but I've got your number, you know. So I was really excited by that.  So I started to get really keen and show up during the school events, and I won just about everything in the school events.  Lisa: Just naturally talented at the event, sort of.  Lorraine: Yeah, but you know, at that time, and that would be in the 60s, there was, it wasn't like the girl thing to do. It was nothing in your vocabulary. The four-bill athlete or woman-athlete, professional athlete, even, that just didn't exist back then. That was not a career choice,  being an athlete. It was even discouraged, somewhat. It was considered as a man's sport. If you did too much of it, you would become manly and— Lisa: Your uterus might fall out, as Catherine told me once. Lorraine: That's universal, you know. People tell you that all across the world I think, that yeah, that was just a popular meme. You had to wear clean underwear in case you got run over and taken to the hospital, they find out you've got dirty underwear on. Those things sort of just become popular culture, but nobody really thinks about how true they are or whether they really apply. We just accept them.  I accepted that as a girl, we didn't have longer events, that we didn't have official events. The cross country was unofficial, usually. So we would have a men's race. Then they would have a little short bill's race, but, you know, that's just the way that it was, I didn't think I was disadvantaged in any way. You just get on with what's available and go like it, and I loved it. Lisa: How did you develop, because even back in the 60s and 70s, there wasn't any official thing that you could go to. How did you actually get—I mean your later career was phenomenal. How did you actually bridge that? Was it a time change too that in the 70s, things started to open up, and or how did that sort of unfold? Lorraine: People were really kind and the club system was very nurturing. So as soon as they realized I had some talent, they took me in hand. I was taken to a neighboring town of Tokoroa, which was sort of like a big town, and introduced to John Davies, who was the bronze medalist from the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. They wanted me to have a proper coach. I was introduced into the Lydiard training theory, from about the age of 14, and for races, et cetera. My event was the 80 yards. I really loved it, and so laps of the track.  I also did cross country. But those events I competed in, there were no junior woman. So I was competing against women who were probably 18 years my senior. I did go to my first national championships and the senior women's at the age of 14. Yeah, and I made the final. I came last in the final. We're like a mate. We're pretty darn good. You know?  Lisa: Yeah. You were 14?  Lorraine: Yeah, sort of, like hanging on, I can remember coming around the straight. I had two people behind me, and I could just see them going, ‘I'm not letting this kid beat me.' Yeah, threw me off, but you know. I was going—representing New Zealand from the time I was 16. That provided opportunity, and that was so damn exciting. Just to be going overseas, and wearing the silver uniform, and getting on a plane and going somewhere, and it was just the most amazing time, and I absolutely loved it. I was put into a competition at a time when I was young enough not to have any respect.  Lisa: You had no idea what was coming at you yet.  Lorraine: So I sort of figured I could run with the best of them. Yeah, so that was sort of part of my make-up or my set up. Which really, you know, it just went from there, until finally, I sort of took off on my own and went to the US and just sort of, seeking greener pastures. That makes a big wide world and yeah.  Lisa: Oh, wow. So tell me a little bit, like Arthur Lydiard. What was he like? Tell us a little bit, you know, so I've heard you say on articles or something, there's a bit of a misrepresentation of how he trained. What was his actual philosophy as an athlete that was actually in under him for a while? What was he like, and what sort of training regime did you have, and how did that develop you? Lorraine: Yeah, I think I was really, really fortunate to grow up in New Zealand, and his system was pretty much adopted by the New Zealand running culture, and I think still has—is part of the culture, yeah. It's based on endurance training. So that's the first thing that John Davies did, was give me a training program. He used to write it, handwrite it on a— and send it to me by mail. So I would get a letter with my training program written down. It would be so exciting.  I ran with my dad. So my dad didn't want me going out there by myself, or we ran on the bush a lot. We got lost a lot, but wouldn't have me there by myself. Although I'm sure if I'd navigated, we wouldn't have got lost, but anyway. Yeah, I mean, we just—and we had a great time. It was really fun for me to get to know my dad. I don't think I would have developed that closeness without having that running. It was just fantastic. So we just ended up doing longer and longer runs. It was just building up mileage, just getting some aerobic base, which is really the crux of the Lydiard training, is that you build your aerobic capacity, and that's the main engine. Lisa: Yeah. Because a lot of them, you know, like I had Rod Dixon on last week, on the show. He's also trained under that. Of course, a lot of the great runners that have come out of New Zealand, and there's been many, have trained on that system. Then, you know, was it a real high mileage system? Like, was it—is there anything that you do different now? Because I know, you're still involved with Arthur Lydiard? The groups that you're taking through now, is there any change in the approach that you've had? Because you know, a lot of the listeners out there are runners that are listening to this. So is there anything that you've learned along the way that you do differently now? Lorraine: No, no, the Lydiard system was sound. I mean, the only thing was, as an athlete, I'd come off a season and then I'd go, ‘I'm gonna just train harder than I've ever trained before,' and then I jump in and overdo it and sort of mess it up. That's what we do, we overtrain. So the Lydiard system itself, I think if you just take the way that he put it together, and the, he was the grandfather of periodization, we didn't call it periodization. The exercise physiologist came along a lot later and then just started to put the jargon onto it, and all there is.  Arthur was very practical. So it's just what worked, it was about 60 years in the making. So you will find Lydiard, that he evolved it with just trial and error. Then, as more people started to do research, he started to incorporate other things. But he was really like, just what works, and what he put together worked really well. What I did with the Lydiard system was look at what were the principles, not looking at the hard and fast rules here, because as soon as you start looking at rules, you have limited yourself, and it doesn't work that way. It's an experiment of one, and your journey as an athlete is completely unique. You occupy your own place, and space and time that nobody else can occupy. If you can respect that, and get away from any sort of cookie-cutter staff. Lisa: I love that personalization approach. That's what I'm heavily into now. It's not like we have access to genetic testing and things like that now, where we can actually tailor things to people's genetics even. But back then that wasn't the case. But to make it your own, so here's the framework, and then you make it yours. That fits with you and your style of being, in your style of life, and in everything that fits to you, rather than just forcing yourself into the confines of just, this is black and white. I think that that's pretty insightful, especially back then. Yeah. Lorraine: Yeah. So what I'm teaching now, and I teach courses through the Lydiard Foundation, two coaches, on how to apply the Lydiard training. The big thing, I think, is to look at things and the overall picture because the, you might say the devils in the details, but the details can completely tell, like the devil, the wrong story So it's very easy for people to, and most common, I think, to overshoot the mark. To put in too much. Then if you put in too much energy into the task at hand, you will get the opposite of what you intended.  Lisa: Yeah, overtraining and burnout.  Lorraine: Also we live in this culture where we think more is better. He said also, we pander to outsourcing our information, and so not tapping into this incredible vehicle that we have that can synthesize and put the information together that is specifically tailor-made to you. That is there. It's innate within all of us. We're just not tapping it. I think the journey of the athlete is a wonderful way to get to know yourself and to be able to tap that in the knowledge and to learn.  So the focus, and this happened to me, during my own running, there was, initially you're motivated by the—just winning or getting a faster time and all those kinds of things. Then you think, well, what is it really payback? It's pretty silly, you know, you're all just running around the house and in circles. Somebody goes, ‘Oh, I'm really great, because I finished in front of you.' You get all worked up. Does that really matter, in the big scheme of things?  Well, in certain terms, it doesn't. The exercise is, and I just gave a talk to our advanced classes on the hero's journey. The hero's journey is that the focus is then on the inner journey that's taking place. Yeah, and is a path for us to get to know ourselves. Socrates said, ‘Know thyself.' It's really sound advice, because, I mean, what else are you going to do to see, you know, you go through life, and then suddenly you get to the other end? Lisa: You don't know what the hell it was about. I mean, this is, this is exactly in line with what I like to talk about, which is like, you know, that we, we learn so much when we do these, you know, athletic endeavors, and I don't care whether you're good, or you're really not talented, and you don't have any ability. It's all about yours—your personal journey. That's why any athlete who's just starting out and doing the first kilometer, you know, is on a journey, to get to know their own body, their own mind, what they're capable of, and we find it, you know, and it's, I hate comparing, you know, like, the actual winning of races and stuff is amazing, but how many of us are actually going to have a career like yours, where you're actually at the top of the podium?  For 99% of the people, it's about what they learn along the way, the health benefits that they gather from the training, the strength—mentally. All of these aspects are just even more important, I think, than the, getting the gold medal put around your neck, or the silver or the bronze. It is much more about a personal journey for most people. I mean, you as an elite athlete, at the top of the pyramid, so to speak, did you find that as well? Has it had a bigger implication on your entire life and your life philosophies than just winning? Part of it? Lorraine: Oh, yeah. In the end, though, the inner journey became more important to me than the outer journey. In a way, I think with life, you have your experiences and you're influenced by your parents and your upbringing and your ancestors and all the rest. So we have all these influences that make up who we think we are I think then—and then we go into our older adult life, and we proceed accordingly with this concept of self, which then I think starts to happen. You start to dismantle that concept themselves, and you start gradually stripping it away, so that, hopefully, when you're ready to go out the other end, you have connected with the essence of who you truly are. Not just all these roles and the expectations and put on yourself, you know. Lisa: Was it for you,was there a lot of expectation, you know, like, I had a lot of expectation in my early years from my dad, who I loved dearly, and wanted to impress and wanted to please and so I had a lot of expectation all the way through. So a lot of the things that I did weren't necessarily what I wanted to be doing. They were things that I felt compelled to do, or expected to do. Was that a part of your journey with running? Or was that more, you just had this passion and actual, like Rod just loved running. You know? What was it like for you? Was it a cut and dried thing that this was a passion of yours, or was it more of an expectation that you would—because you were so good?  Lorraine: Yeah. No, it was mine. I mean, it was completely driven by me, instigated and driven by me. My family was really supportive. My dad got on board with it. So my dad got into running because I was a teenager that got into running. He figured he was like the canary in the coal mine. If there was—if I was doing too much or overdoing it, you know, and he did the same as me. Well, then he would clog up before I would. That was very nice of him. He did, you know he actually died while he was out running. That was the way he wanted to exit. So he did. Lisa: Well, yeah, it's never a good thing to go. But if you're going to go, I suppose doing something and being healthy until the last moment is the way that most of us would like to exit this world. Lorraine: My parents were, oh, they were obviously proud. I mean, you get out there, and especially when you're in an Olympics, or Commonwealth Games, or something that's really big for your country, you do feel the expectation of your country and how you do and you know it really matters. It's quite personal. Sometimes when I didn't do that, well, and you get refreshed.  Lisa: That's harsh.  Lorraine: Yeah. Yeah, it is. You just, you know—I don't know, you get over it with pursued— you realize that you have to keep things in perspective. I think one thing I could always come back to and just be in love with the journey of the race and yeah. That it didn't go away.  Lisa: That passion stayed right throughout you. So let's talk now a little bit about the actual—some of the highlights of your career because this is like for most of us, we're never gonna get to do these sorts of things at this level. What was it like to go to the Olympics? What's it like to compete in the first marathons that women were allowed to do in the Olympics? What was that like for you? Lorraine: Well, the first marathons, my foray into marathons was another thing. That was sort of serendipity in a way. It just sort of came to me, and maybe there was a certain, I don't know, maybe openness, the new experience, I think that yeah, that just led me into different sorts of places. But what happened in—when I left school, and I was already a nationally recognized runner as a high school kid, and what to do? I didn't know what to do, so I decided to go to phys ed school because it was the closest thing that I could think of that's for a woman.  Lisa: It is, exactly. That's all we had back then. Lorraine: Yeah, yeah, you just, that's what sporty girls do, become a phys ed teacher. Gary was, my brother, was already at the phys ed school underneath. So it seemed really easy to hit off down to the need. I thought that was really great because it was really a long way from home. Yeah, you know, and I just loved being a student. I just thought that was so fantastic.  So the first day I was there at the phys ed school I got, I was standing on the steps of the phys ed school, and I was sort of looking to my left and looking to my right, and I didn't know where anything was or which way to go for my run. This group of guys came running past. They were a bunch of lunchtime runners, and some of them are very good runners. One of them looked up and saw me standing there in my running shoes and shorts and said, ‘Hey, chick, you gotta come and run with the boys today.'  Okay, there's an invitation I can't refuse. Down the steps, I glommed on to the back of this group, I could barely keep up. But we did this run. The next day, I was there again, and the next day, and so I became the girl that ran with this group of guys.  Lisa: Crazy girl.  Lorraine: Yeah, and they sort of took me under their wing. So I did all the rounds with them. Sunday was like the Needham version of the white tacori run, was the white Eddie's. It's just, just, you run out somewhere over a mountain and down the other side and you've gotten 20 miles, you know. So I started doing those every Sunday with the guys. As a 800-meter runner, you know, I was building this incredible base, and I just got stronger and stronger. Lisa: Did it make you slower doing the long stuff, for the actual short track races? Lorraine: I'm glad you asked. Yeah. No, that's not true, that. Yeah. Endurance running does not make you slow. No, it does not. Though, you do need to do the faster work to bring on your speed. But the endurance will enable you, eventually, to be able to sustain your fastest possible pace. That's the basis of endurance. So nearly all events over two minutes would derive their energy mostly from aerobic means, right? So the greater aerobic capacity you have, the greater capacity you have for any event over two minutes. Lisa: But what about, I've never been fast, that's why we're long. So I don't have a comparison really, of having lost speed because I never had any to begin with. But doing the super long stuff, you know, the ultra marathon distances, I got dreadfully slow when it comes to the shorter distances over time. I always put that down to my muscle, fast twitch fibers mainly tuned into slow twitch fibers.  Now, actually, like, in the last five years, where I stopped doing the ultra marathons, and I've been concentrating more on shorter, sharper, I'm still not fast by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm a heck of a lot faster than I used to be over the short distance. So even in your 50s, you can start to go back the other way. But it's interesting to hear you say that, no, you don't find that. Because that's—yeah, interesting. Lorraine: With some caveats in matters that, if you—your body will respond to what you give it. In terms of training, stimulus response, so what training is, you are giving the body a specific stimulus to get a specific response from the body. It will do that really well. So the thing about the Lydiard pyramid is that you build the endurance, but you don't do that ad infinitum. Right? So then you go on and then you go through the faster phases and you develop the muscles on faster twitch and the different ones, right through to your peak events.  So, we have quite a few ultra runners who come and do our coaching courses. They get in and they get really excited about doing the phases and getting the full development. That's the beauty I think of the Lydiard training, is that it is holistic. It puts all the energy systems and every type of training response in its rightful place, so that you can be at your peak on the day that counts. What I find with a lot of ultra people is that they've just lost their flexibility and range of motion because they haven't practiced it.  Lisa: That's definitely a big part of our training and how we coach—a lot of strength and a lot of mobility, in proprioception, work and coordination and drills and things that traditionally, when I, because when I started back in the dark ages to when we had no idea, and I certainly had no coaching back in the day, I just ran and ran long, because I wasn't very fast, so just run longer than everybody else and I was good at that.  But now I understand and what you know, that whole mobility piece of the puzzle is absolutely crucial, and the drills and the form and the strength training or all the foundational elements, to be able to run the mileage, you know, it's like a pyramid for us, how we how we build it. So yeah, I totally agree, and I think most ultra runners neglect that part. That's where they come unstuck to some degree. You get very slow and stiff. There's reasons for that. But you managed to finish the distance, but the quality sometimes goes down with the length of time you're out there. Lorraine: Also, if you're out there for a heck of a long time, you don't want to spend much time in the air. You don't need a lot of upwards motion, or that long, beautiful stride, et cetera. You develop a bit of a shuffle, it's just being efficient at the distance that you're doing, yes. Just interrupting the program briefly to let you know that we have a new patron program for the podcast. Now, if you enjoy Pushing The Limits, if you get great value out of it, we would love you to come and join the program. We've been doing this now for five and a half years and we need your help to keep it on here. It's been a public service free for everybody, and we want to keep it that way. But to do that we need like minded souls who are on this mission with us to help us out. 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I didn't know what running form was. I just ran. Incredible that you can still achieve great distances and that way, but it's certainly not healthy. It was very high mileage in those early days, and that has its own toll.  Now we try to train people efficiently because most of the people that we training are also, you know, got careers and kids and jobs and stressors. So we find that you can't train them like you would a 20-year-old professional athlete when they're a 45-year-old mum with three children and a full-on career. Then you're going to break them if you have that high mileage model. So it's much more about time efficiency and getting the best results that they can get with the level of stress that they're already under.  So yes, it's just really interesting to compare notes on all this, especially as you've come from the elite level, in a lot of the things that I find with people who are not in that elite group, don't respond the same way that elite runners would, like when you were doing your top level stuff, the amount of mileage and manner of training that you would have been able to cope with is not what your average person can cope with, because you would have been focused on that solely. Lorraine: I think if you look historically at Lydiard training, he started coaching the first joggers group in the early 60s. So the story is that he was invited, after his Olympic successes, to the Tamaki Yacht Club to talk to the businessman there about training, etc. He was asking them about their own levels of fitness. A whole bunch of them said, ‘Well, we can't do any, our doctors told us to take it easy, because we've had cardiac arrest'. And Arthur's like, you know typical, Arthur, you know, ‘That's absolute rubbish. If you guys want to start jogging with me, I will teach you how to run a marathon.'  He had quite a group, of which quite a few of them were cardiac patients, and had this running group. He got them to run a marathon in about nine months. You're talking more than a couch potato? Yeah.  Lisa: Exactly. He approached that differently than he would with his elite athlete, obviously?  Lorraine: He had to, because if they couldn't start out on 100 miles a week and he realized that you can't expect middle-aged men getting run out to do that kind of mileage because they spend so much more time on their feet, that they're actually doing a lot more work than an elite runner, yeah. So then he changed the distance to duration.  Lisa: Yes, that's what we do too mostly, duration, because then that's more of it. Because otherwise if you run your good marathons at incredibly fast times, but the person who is at the other end of the marathon is taking six hours, they're going to be athletes for twice as long or longer. That doesn't equate from an equivalent point of view. That's—yeah, so that's exactly what we do. Yeah. Lorraine: Physiologically, it's about the same based on duration. Not based on distance. If you spend two hours out there, and you're just jogging along, and that's as fast as you can go, you will have about the same effect as somebody who runs at the same effort but is heck of a lot faster. The system is adaptable to all levels of runner. That's why you go on principles. You look at what you're trying to achieve, and then how best to achieve it based on the level of their person, but, you know, the—we're all, physiologically, we all basically work the same.  We all have—we metabolize fats and glycogen and have the same energy systems and they are invoked at the same perceived effort or level of effort and can be developed. We all have this system of adaptation. We all are losing cells and regenerating them all the time. That is basically so, if you're becoming a new person, like they say, maybe 95% of our bodies are replaced every year, just cells dying and new ones coming on. Or in seven years you get a completely new you. So it doesn't really matter, the point is that, can you direct who you are going to be in the view. Yeah, you can. Athletes know that. Lisa: Yeah. That's what our reputation is all about and why we do it, that's why we train so that we get that reputation. In heavier like—what do you do with people, because we get a lot of athletes who are just head through the wall, type A personalities who want to go harder than what their bodies, and I'm putting myself in this category, to harder than what their bodies can actually cope with, they're burning themselves out, breaking themselves and not actually reaping the reward that they should be for the amount of effort that's going in to their training. How do you try to get them to back off a bit? Lorraine: Yeah. Yeah. So, one of the key things that I teach is that we start right from the beginning, learning to pay attention to our bodies, and getting this rapport with ourselves and learning that you want to a cooperative relationship with your own body and it will give you the information that that it has, and which is better than if you're trying to perform to these external measures, which, there's so many of them because we can measure every frickin' thing that we do, and post it some way of where other people can look at, and they couldn't care less, because they're too busy putting their's up and wanting other people to pay attention to it.  So this constant pandering to make ourselves into somebody that we think that's something on the outside that's going to approve of us. So people who overdo it have a lack of confidence, and a lack of trust in their own body and their own physiology. Because my goodness, your body does an incredible job to keep us alive, and to keep us going and to perform the tasks that we give to it so we can achieve the dreams that we have. Then that will bust itself, for you.  But we do have sort of certain sort of measures, then that will also put into place when you're going to to kill yourself. But those that are well, I'm not doing this because yeah, our minds are incredible also. But most of them use our minds like a slave driver.  Lisa: Yes. I certainly did.  Lorraine: Yeah. You have to learn the hard way sometimes. But we have, being able to recognize, and to know where those danger signals are, and to be able to catch them and back off. Those, I started out my courses, were talking about the fallacy of hard work. Hard work is not where it said, everybody thinks, ‘Oh, God, you must be a really hard worker.' Well, you know, I can knock a knuckle down, but you know, why put in more energy than the task requires? So hard is redundant. Just do the work. Don't make it hard. Because then now, as soon as you say hard, people start to stress, they tense up, you know, okay, Lisa: It plops your brain and it becomes a negative, that you associate with, pain with your exercise and things and that it creates a negative loop. Lorraine: It's horrible. When I won big races, it was actually you get in the state of flow, and it feels wonderful. Lisa: Wow. So when you're actually at the top of your game, and winning these international events and things, you felt like—so it didn't feel as if you were killing yourself to get across the line on those days.  Lorraine: I always get pretty tired of the marathon.  Lisa: Yeah the in and out it. But you felt like you're prepared for this, but not overprepared for this, not burnt out and sorry about it. You actually enjoyed that, you enjoyed those top races that you really did well in? Did that feel like a flow state? Lorraine: The system that I teach, it's a performance system, right? It's good, so that you get the best you possibly can on the day that counts. So that's getting yourself into a peak performance state from wherever you're at. Right? Everybody can do that. That feels amazing. I'm sure you felt it, that you just get there and everything's clicking right. You've got it.  So it is a coordination of body, heart, mind and spirit. It's just, they all come together and you reach that state of flow. Actually, for most of us, we don't get there because we are working too hard. We have too much tension. That getting into a peak state is actually an act of surrender. Yeah. So, when you hit it a few times, you go, ‘Man, this feels so good. I'm gonna try and figure out how I got there again'. As I said, when I was young, I'd just go on the on the train harder than ever before, and you know, and then it seems to sort of go away from you and then you get injured or something or you don't perform as well, because you're in the syndrome of hard work, you're overcooking it, you've got excess energy. That energy has to go somewhere, and all it does is that just messes things up. So that precision of giving the stimulus that is needed for the effect. The thing is that the effect of it takes place during the recovery period, not when you're actually doing the task. So, you know— Lisa: That's an important point. If you had a bad night's sleep, you're being under the pump all week with work, you've got kids who have slept in, everything's going to cast it, and then you go and smash yourself, because it's on your list today to do a really long, hard run. You're not going to get the adaptation, you'd have been better to go hang on, well, ‘Life, come at me this week, I'm gonna actually take it a little bit easier.' Having that confidence to do that, and back off, because I think a lot of people are like, ‘Yeah, but I have to go harder'. They congratulate themselves when they slave drive themselves, and they push them through the bad event.  While that might make you mentally tougher, and there's some advantages of that approach for a while, it isn't going to get the adaptation that you're going to want, because actually, it's in the recovery, it's in the sleep, it's in the downtime that you're actually going to get that benefit. If you're not able to adapt, and then all that training was for nothing, or worse, it can be even detrimental to your immune system and to your health, your mental health. That's a hard sell, tough-minded athletes who think that they have to enter. I certainly struggled with us, and still do so on occasion, we, but I have to go harder, and I'm not, you know, doing enough, because I'm not getting the results, therefore, you know, a little is good, more must be better. That approach doesn't work. Lorraine: Yeah, look, it's a lack of trust. I think a lot of us are brought up to sort of think in the negative all the time, and to talk about what we don't want to have happen. We approach a lot of the things that we wish to do, or the things we wish to create in our lives from a state of fear. That's a real shame, because that immediately puts us on the backfoot. Then we can't get into this natural flow. Look, the world has set up for us to be creative beings, and for us to have, be able to manifest our dreams and make works that are worthwhile and contribute it, so when we leave this life, we have lived something better, we have used our own talents and things are more enhanced, because of our being here.  I think most people have a very huge drive, I think all human beings do, to be of value in this life in some way. I think, you know, we started out talking about this, that we have these systems in our systems, they're not human, you know, they're just systems that are put in place that eventually become self-serving, and they don't serve us.  So they will perpetuate fear, etc., because it just gets us putting our energy into the system, rather than putting it into ourselves and our own dreams. I think that what we need to realize is that it is set up in our favor. I'll give you just one really good example of that. When we train, and we give the body a training stimulus, so to meet that training task, that run or whatever we do, that workout, you have used this fuels in your body and you've broken apart all these bonds to provide energy to enable you to do the task, and then you stop doing it.  As soon as you stop doing it, the body gets busy. It starts to reconstitute those energy bonds and etc. So all these adaptations are taking place. That brings us back to normal again. But it doesn't just bring us back to normal. It gives us more, it makes us stronger, more storage space, you know, stronger muscle fibers, better oxygenation. It actually adapts itself to better accommodate what we're asking it to do. Yeah. So nature has given you a bonus. I mean, if you can't see that everything is set up in your favor just by that little thing alone, it's like, ‘Wow.' Lisa: Yeah, biology is just incredible. These are hormetic stressors. So when we put our body under strain, we come back stronger. When we put ourselves under too much strain, we actually break it down. So that's the fine line that we have to, for us, for each of us individually, find where those points are. That will shift as we get stronger, and you'll be able to take on more training.  But we have to honor the process, that honor the the hormetic stress, recovery, stress recovery, and then build on that so that we can then, you know, eventually you can be running at the best, if it's a training thing, but this is in every area of life, that we're more stressed, we're more resilient. Resilience, the word. We're more able to take on a load, this is just the beautiful thing of all these hormetic stressors and if we don't push ourselves at all, well then, we're going to definitely, the body is going to go well, this is a piece of cake, I can just keep being where I'm at, and then actually start to decline.  What I'd be really interested in your take with older people. One of my passions in life is to empower older people to not give up on on their lives because society sees your past that, and that you've got a use-by date,  you've passed, you know, all of these sorts of attitudes that are just insidious in our culture that, in the Maori culture, it's a little bit better, where we actually respect their elders, and we value their wisdom, but in general culture, it's pretty bad.  We also have this thing—when I retire, then I'll recover and I'll relax. For me, that's the beginning of a downward spiral. So in the rehabilitation journey that I've been on with my mum for the last five years, you know, I set her tasks every day that she has to achieve. She has goals that we're aiming for. Of course, we have phases of recovery, and so on. But she's always on a mission of some sort or another, and she's 79 years old, and we're going forward. I will treat her like that until there is no hope, you know, to the end of her days, because I believe that humans need challenge.  They don't need comfort. They don't need to be, you know, mollycoddled and stuck on the couch to watch telly all day, because you're older now. No. I'd like to see people having their challenge, whatever their challenge is, and it could be like, mum has offered art classes now and just loving the creative. She's got time to do something different and that's a goal that is helping her brain stay on point. What's your take on the way society sees people when they get older? How do you approach that from your personal standpoint? Lorraine: Well, from my own personal standpoint, they're getting older. Yeah, I'm with you 100%, Lisa. I think we need to continually be adding new stimuli, and you know, they can be stress, you know, stimuli stress, it's all just, you're asking the body to do new things. So then you're just inviting new experience into your life. I think that as we get older, our world should be getting bigger, not smaller. I do think that a lot of what we attribute to old age, it's just bad habit.  Lisa: It's accumulating it for many years and makes it the typical aging things. I mean, we are all going to die at some point, but my goal is to live an extremely long life that is healthy until the end, that's my goal. None of us know what's going to come at us from left field. I've experienced an awful lot, I know that some things can still, but that's the goal. That's the approach that I take. So I'm doing everything in my life and in my family's life, to make that as best as possible.  To have constant challenge and have constant goals that you're aiming for and new things that you're learning. It keeps you in this growth mindset for starters, and it keeps your body not knowing what's coming, so it's still having to adapt and go forward, rather than going backwards. As we get older, we get wiser, well, hopefully we do, most of us do, we've got more experience, we're more able to cope with, you know, all the, the emotional things that we probably weren't able to cope with when we were 20, we've got all these experiences.  It's just fantastic if we can look to our older generations as the one who provide wisdom for the ones that are coming behind, and they're seen as a valuable resource in our society, because and not as being your past that because you're over 50, or you're over 60, or you're over 70, or whatever, you know, this demarcation line is that people have and they put on themselves, you know, partly because society does this. Lorraine: Yeah and it's a horrible thing for you to be made redundant and society in terms of your value to it. That is largely, I think, exacerbated by what runs the show is generally money. So people are not seeing older people as being contributing into. Yet we need to start valuing other things besides that. I think we are at the moment, just with the times and what it's for, the time of shifting, and there's an invitation here to make sure that we reconnect with our humanness, and start to prioritise what things we value as human beings, because we're in danger of losing a lot of them. We look at our older people, and we also look at our children. Now children have a life expectancy less than that of their parents. Lisa: Yes, horrific. Lorraine: It's the wrong direction, and you can't cut off your old people and your young people are not benefiting from the wisdom that is available, and that wisdom is something that you can't put a price on. We need to get back to, away from this sort of outside focus and measuring everything in those sorts of terms, and start to value our human relationships and our depth of experience and our connection to the divine spark which we all have within us. To value that journey and support each other on that journey. We're all in it alone, and we're all in it together. Lisa: That's beautifully put. I think we are in an age of change, and I hope things will gather some more momentum. We've got lots of problems in the world but we've also got lots of opportunities now to change things. In the areas that I'm working in, I'm seeing huge changes taking place within just the last few years and that's encouraging. Then there is lots of negativity, but I like to focus on the positivity.  But I think, yeah, let's start valuing our elder, older population, and they have a lot to bring to the party. What we want to do is help people stay healthier, longer. That requires a bit of a mindset shift. When I take my mom to the gym, she's training her butt off there at 79 years old, and people know where she's come from, like being in a wheelchair for a few years, and not being able to do anything. Now she's doing all this, you know, crazy stuff, well, you know, compared to where she was there. That's a role model. She's a role model for so many older people who now have actually joined the gym, and, you know, we're doing stuff because they go, ‘Well, if Isabel can do it, I can do it.' That's, to me, the greatest, beautiful thing that's come out of that tragic journey that we've been on. It's empowering now, other people to not give up just because they're older. To have that attitude of, ‘I'm going to fight my way back.' Then it's a team event. I'm mum's coach, mentor and driver. She's the one who's willing to put in the hard yards and to do whatever I asked her to do to the best of her ability, and that's a winning combination. I'd like to see more people have that, if they've been on rehabilitation journeys. Even for younger people, that they've got someone in the corner that's willing to help them fight because when you're in a big health battle, you need people fighting with you and alongside you. Lorraine: Yeah. When you're down and you don't have the energy, that's what families are for. That's what families are for. To help you when you need to help and how you can all be putting in and bringing it together. I just think this divorcing ourselves from old people and just giving them a bunch of pills, then putting them in front of the telly, what a waste, what an incredible waste of resources.  Lisa: Yep, and loneliness and despair, and all of those things, and the value of that person's life history is just disappearing, when it could be being impassioned, if they, if we can keep their minds active, and their bodies as strong as possible for as long as possible, they have a great value. It's not like, from a societal standpoint, it's often thought, well, once you retire, you're no longer adding value to society, it's measured in monetary value, and you're costing more in the health systems. Hopefully, you don't live too long. That's just an approach to me that is just horrific. The way that society treats its young, and it's old and it's vulnerable, as is the mark of a civilization, I think that is, you know, is that is what we should be measured by, not how strong— Lorraine: Yeah, and I think the example of your mum, is that, all we have to do is take care of what's in front of us and do the best that we can. That is being an example to other people, it just starts to, so she's going to the gym and other people see her and they go out, and they have a whole different mindset about the possibilities and what happens and, and that's all it takes. Lisa: You like the work that you're doing, that's imparting your knowledge. You could be sitting back on a beach somewhere and just enjoying life. Instead, you're still teaching, you're sharing, you're imparting that valuable knowledge that you have to other people, and that is gold. It's so important. Gary, your lovely brother, who I absolutely adore and admire, thinks he's crazy and awesome at the same time. Still world-leading mountain biker at his age, and he certainly helped me on my journey when I was broken and burnt out and came to him, a few years ago going, ‘But Gary, I'm broken, can you help me?' He put pieces of the puzzle back together again, and helped, gave me actually a role model, because he'd done the same thi

Se vi interessate del mondo dell'allenamento nella corsa difficilmente non avrete sentito parlare Arthur Lydiard, probabilmente uno dei più famosi coach della storia della corsa, creatore di un metodo di allenamento che ancora oggi è fonte d'ispirazione per molti atleti e coach moderni, e anche ritenuto il "creatore" del jogging.Conosciamolo meglio allora in questo episodio!

KOŞU FENOMENLERİ | BÖLÜM 2 | LYDIARD'IN PİRAMİDİ Herkese merhabalar. Bu podcastte düsturumuz: "Hızlanmak için yavaş koş." Evet, konuklarımız uzun mesafelerin, kilometrelerin babaları. Modern koşunun öncüsü, periyotlama ustası büyük koşu antrenörü Arthur Lydiard'ı ve onun ismiyle müsemma piramidini mercek altına alıyoruz. Keyifli Dinlemeler.

Om du hørte forrige badstue-episode med Thor kan du huske at vi snakket om løpingens verdenshistorie og brukte boka hans, Løping, En Verdenshistorie, som utgangspunkt. Vi gikk kronologisk til verks og ga oss da vi kom til midten av 1900-tallet da vi skjønte at det var så mye snacks å ta tak i der at vi kom til å svette i hjel før vi ble ferdigsnakket. Jeg dro tilbake til Disen, leste meg opp på noen av hans bøker om temaet, deriblant boka om Kvalheimbrødrene, og kom tilbake til badstua et par uker etterpå. Denne gangen var badstua 10 grader varmere, og vi gikk til verks i løpingens nyere historie og hvordan forskjellige trenere og personligheter har påvirket hvordan vi trener og bedriver idretten i dag. Hvor kommer begrepet fartslek fra? Hvem fant på konseptet med intervalltrening? Hva har New Zealand å gjøre med joggebølgen i USA på 60-70-tallet, og hvordan ble dette importert til Norge? Noen navn so blir nevnt: Audun Boysen, Knut og Arne Kvalheim, Paavo Nurmi, Arthur Lydiard, Paavo Nurmi, Bill Bowerman, Percy Wells Cerutty, Herb Elliott, Arne Nytrø, Gösta Holmer, Emil Zatopek, Steve Prefontaine, Lars Martin Kaupang, Frank Shorter, Kenny Moore, Lasse Virén, Ingrid Kristiansen, Vebjørn Rodal, Geir Moen, Brødrene IngebrigtsenPATREON:Hør hele episoden på Patreon-siden til Nå Er Det Alvor.  Kontakt:https://naerdetalvor.no/eplehans@gmail.com+47 928 41 558NEDA på instagram (@neda_podcast)NEDA på FacebookHans Kristian på instagram (@hanserino)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/nedaproject)

We have one of if not the best coach that I have had the pleasure of talking to Martin Cox from Vo2 Max Coaching, he is a world class athlete who has been on the top flight in mountain running for numerous years. He has rubbed shoulders with some of the best coaches the world has ever seen which along with his own experience in racing is where he learned his skill, his passion for the sport and the athlete’s he coaches shines through in this episode, he is an amazingly interesting guy and there is no doubt in my mind that he could significantly my performance as an athlete. 1984 – Starts running at 10 years old. First competitive road race in 1984, age 14. It was the Huncote Half Marathon, Leicester. 1987 – Began training under Paul Blissett at Leicester Coritanians, coach to distance running legends Craig Mochrie and Phil Makepeace. 1996 – First international vest, 4th place in the Inter-Counties XC, and a debut half-marathon of 64 minutes in Bristol. 1997 – First competitive mountain race, Mt Roy in Wanaka, New Zealand. 1998 – Moved to Chamonix to train and race full-time in the Alps. 1999 – Completed first track-racing season working with renowned distance running coach Arthur Lydiard. 2002 – Wins second World Cup. Finishes 3rd at Sierre-Zinal and 4th in the World Mountain Running Championships. 2003 – First mountain marathon – Graubuenden in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. 2005 – First ultra-marathon – The Kepler in Te Anau, New Zealand. 2008 – A career highlight – second place in the Jungfrau Marathon. 2009 – Branching out into the Extreme Sport of Snowshoe Racing. 2010 – First year as a veteran. Wins Inter-counties Fell Running Championships and runs first road marathon in 2 hrs 27 minutes. 2013 – Completes a number of ultras, including the Swiss Alpine Marathon and The Himalayan 100. 2019 – Aged 50. New races on the road and in the mountains, including the Comrades Marathon and Subida Pico Valeta. https://www.vo2maxcoaching.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/MourneMountainHikes https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheInspirationalRunner  

Today we talk with recording-breaking coach and author Sean O'Connor. Sean has singlehandedly rewrote the Missouri distance records both in XC and track & field. Coach O'Connor and I discuss his influences that led to his path into coaching. He lays out his unique system of training that he developed from some of the biggest names in distance coaching like Dr. Daniels, Renato Canova, Arthur Lydiard, etc. Through this unique mixture, he came up with what he calls the "funnel." We talk about how to build long-lasting programming to create a unique opportunity to be equally competitive at both cross country and track. We discuss how to develop winning cultures, how to actually implement actionable sport psychology. He discusses the practice of mindfulness, meditation, and visualization. Coach O'Connor leads us into the importance of using mistakes as teachable moments and personal professional development. The path becomes our best teacher. For elite performance technology please visit: https://store.simplifaster.com/sku/83/ To pick up Distance Training Simplified: https://www.amazon.com/Distance-Training-Simplified-Se%C3%A1n-OConnor/dp/1720504024 To contact Coach O'Connor Email: oconnorsean@rsdmo.org Twitter: @LafayetteBoysXC To pick up the Sprinter's Compendium: https://store.vervante.com/c/v/V4081803315.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ryan-joseph-banta/support

By Davy Crockett In the 1970s, the sport of ultrarunning received very little attention in the mainstream media. In April 1974, Park Barner from Pennsylvania, the top ultrarunner in America at the time, did appear on a local television show. The episode was entitled, “The Loneliness of the Ultra-Distance Runner.” He also later was on CBS's PM Magazine. But the ultrarunners who really succeeded in getting the attention of the public were those who rarely participated in formal races and instead put on endurance stunts that were attention-grabbers. The most prominent runners had the help of skilled marketing resources to keep their name in the spotlight. Their goal was not to go after sanctioned records or even formal course records. Instead, they focused mostly on getting their name into the Guinness Book of World Records to claim invented "world records," which are what we call today "fastest known times." Because the most elite ultrarunners in the world were not self-promoters, they remained in general obscurity except among their ultrarunning competitors and clubs. It was the self-promoter record-seekers who truly became famous. Two of these individuals who caught the attention of the American public in the mid-1970s were Max Telford of New Zealand and Alan Jones, a marine from Iowa, who was stationed in Oregon. Telford was touted as being the greatest long-distance runner in the world and Jones became known as "Captain America." Both ran 100 miles and both their stories are fascinating and inspirational. It is believed that neither went down the fraudulent road as many other self-promoters did. Max Telford  Max Telford (1936-) was from Scotland, New Zealand, Hawaii, and the Philippines. He was a legitimate elite ultrarunner who sought out amazing running adventures to be the first or the fastest. He did race in some legitimate competitive races, but never really competed against the best in the world. Instead, he did many successful solo stunts and self-promotions, working with sponsors who at times made "over the top" claims about his abilities. He greatly inspired others to run. He had ambitions “to become the greatest long distance runner of all time” and many people of his time believed he was. Telford grew up in Scotland. He went to work in the clothing industry and played rugby and soccer when serving in the military. After moving to New Zealand in 1958, when he was 22 years old, he joined the Mount Albert Athletic Club to get into shape for rugby season. He enjoyed running and did pretty well, so he decided to stick with it. Arthur Lydiard Telford first ran middle distances and cross-country. He trained with legendary Arthur Lydiard’s group of middle and long-distance athletes. Lydiard was recognized as one of the greatest coaches of all time and credited for popularizing the sport of running. On May 2, 1964, Telford gave a try at running 100 miles, and set a New Zealand 100-mile record of 14:58:36. At the age of 32, when Telford didn’t qualify for the Mexico Olympics in 1968, he discussed with Lydiard what he should do next and decided to move up to ultra-distances. To get in his miles, he would put in an eight-hour shift at work and then go run 30 miles. At the peak for his ultra training, he would run three times per day and run 200-mile weeks. Telford said, "I quickly found I could run incredibly long distances with no strain really. I stood up to it very well, and soon was covering 50 miles, then 100." In April 1970, he ran for 24 hours on Lovelock Trick in Auckland and reached 114 miles. Around 1971 he quit his job in the clothing business to run full-time and do physical fitness instruction. He became the first to run length of New Zealand’s North Island, 717 miles. That brought him some fame and started him on the road to do attention-getting, inspiring running stunts. Transcontinental Run Attempt In 1972, at the age 36, Telford attempted to break the record running acr...

162: Craig Kirkwood   Brad makes a second consecutive parkrun appearance and poses for fan photos.Julian sorts out the confusion about his heart rate on one of his workouts. Brady gets some of his mojo back. Patrick Tiernan sets a new 10000m National Record of 27:22.55, less than a year to the day Stewy McSweyn’s record at Zatopek. At the “Track Meet” held in California, USA hosted by Sound Running.Results https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeYVNkH0ql/    There was action aplenty at the Valencia Marathon as Evans Chebet triumphed in 2:03:00 over Lawrence Cherono in a tight sprint finish around the final corner to take line honours, while Peres Chepchirchir ran the 5th fastest marathon ever in 2:17:16. It was a tough day for the Road to Valencia team with Matt Clowes in 2:15, Paul Marteletti in 2:19 and Peter LeGrice retiring midway. Kibiwott Kandie of Kenya sets a new Half Marathon World Record of 57:32, leading the top 4 under Geoffrey Kamworor’s previous records, while 1500m, 3000m and 5000m World Record holder Genzebe Dibaba won her debut Half Marathon in 1:05:18, over Sheila Chepkirui and Senbere Teferi both also under 66 minutes ahead of American Emily Sisson. https://www.runnerstribe.com/latest-news/5732-kenyas-kibiwott-kandie-trounces-half-marathon-world-record-in-valencia/    South Australian State 5000m Championships - Izzy Batt Doyle sets state record 15:26.48, clear of Caitlin Adamas and Tara Pam while Matt Clarke took out the Men’s race. Results    Queensland also held their State 5000m Championships with honours going to Adam Fogg & Jenny Blundell of NSW.Results   Steph Auston 3:17:26 new Women’s 50km National Record at GC50, beating Jackie Fairweather’s previous record.GC50 Results     Japanese 10000m records fell on both the men and women, with the women’s record set by Zatopek 2018 winner Hitomi Niiya. Japan Running News   World Cross rescheduled to 19th February 2022. Inside the Games    Rules around prototype shoes rewritten again. Inside the Games   Listener Question structuring process of taper ahead of a race/time trial going into detail and Moose on the Loose is tired of shoe talk disrespecting the athletes, and goes into his favourite carbonated waters. Craig Kirkwood, runner, coach and patron of the show sheds light on the career of running he’s had, going through the several personal bests earned from around the world and how getting the best from his own training led to his start as a junior. He recalls earning high praise from Arthur Lydiard and his experiences competing and training in the NCAA in Oklahoma before heading off to the UK where he represented New Zealand at the 1999 World Cross Country Championships in Belfast. During his time in London, Craig developed his skill as a coach and agent organising athlete training and racing including the likes of Daniel Komen, watching their workouts and observing the level of professionalism they put in. Craig goes into stepping up to the marathon, getting selected for the Manchester Commonwealth Games before a freak injury derailed him then coming home to New Zealand. He shares his insight to the domestic scene, why New Zealand distance running sets the bar really high and his earnest approach into coaching, particularly young charges such as Sam Tanner and his philosophies around training and self belief, and closing with his thoughts on how the domestic running scene will go through the short term future and current state of the sport.

In this episode I talk to a Lydiard legend. Coach Nobby was mentored directly by Arthur Lydiard and his contacts worldwide make him the leading expert on what it means to train the Lydiard way. We review his own personal running accomplishments, how he got into coaching, what it was like working in the Japanese system, online coaching through Running Wizard, Lydiard methodology, and his new website which is a one-stop shop for any Lydiard fan or coach trying to further their education. Nobby’s email: nobby@lydiardacademy.orgWebsites: lydiardacademy.org and runningwizard.net

Kia Ora Whanau. This week on the podcast, Matt and Eugene take a deep dive with coach extraordinaire Craig Kirkwood. Craig has been a life-long student of running, immersing himself in the works of Arthur Lydiard when Craig was in his early teens in Timaru. From there Craig went to Oklahoma on a college track scholarship, then to London to work with Olympic runners to further hone his coaching skills. As an elite athlete himself Craig has competed many times on the world stage at the highest level. Craig launched himself full time into coaching in 2013 after being made redundant, and hasn’t looked back since. We explore Craig’s love of running and coaching, his approach to coaching, and why flexibility is important both in your mindset and hips. Craig is honest about how his preparation for the highest level of the sport cost him his future in the sport, and why it’s important to focus on the whole experience, not just the good bits … Enjoy!

Episode 177 - Jeff Kline - Owner/Founder -Team PRS Fit, Endurance Athlete, Running and Triathlete Coach, Author and Cancer Survivor “I don’t believe in falling into the negative in anything I do.” “It’s all about attitude...you can’t have a positive life with a negative attitude.” - Jeff Kline In this episode, the Two Fit Crazies are joined by an amazingly inspirational endurance athlete and coach by the name of Jeffrey Kline. Joining the show from Montauk Point, New York, Jeff is able to squeeze in a quick interview with the Fit Crazies between training athletes both in person, at a safe distance, and from around the US and beyond. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Jeff spent many years in Boulder, Colorado before heading to Portland, Oregon. Jeff’s change of scenery and change of career eventually led him to find his calling as an endurance coach. He turned his passion into a career developing his running and tri programs around the teachings of the great Arthur Lydiard and working with The Training Bible, now known as Training Peaks, for Joe Friel. As the founder of Team PRS Fit, Jeff finds immense joy in developing specialized training plans to help athletes of all levels reach their full potential. In addition, Jeff’s positive outlook and zest for life is apparent as you will hear when he shares his personal story with battling cancer. Jeff Kline is a true inspiration! He has run across the USA, he has completed 12-hour treadmill challenges, and he has only just begun! Listen as Jeff drops details of his next excursion, a (virtual) treadmill run across the United States! -Two Fit Crazies TFCpro@twofitcrazies.com www.twofitcrazies.com Jeff Kline/Team PRS Fit Information and Links: https://teamprsfit.com Facebook: TeamPRSFIT Insta/Twitter: @Coachprsfit Email: prdfit@gmail.com

Today, I was fortunate enough to chat with Kiwi Lorraine Moller; she shares her journey, stories from her amazing career and an abundance of sage learnings and wisdom along the way! Lorraine Moller is a 4-time Olympian, Olympic bronze medalist (in the marathon, Barcelona 1992), a world track and field finalist, multiple Commonwealth Games track medalist and winner of 16 major international marathons! Alongside her running achievements, Lorraine was a forerunner for equality in women's athletics and an activist for professionalism in distance running. Her career started out in New Zealand as an exceptional 14-year-old middle distance runner, coached by Lydiard protégé and 1964 Olympic 1500m bronze medalist, John Davies. Always adhering to the methods of Arthur Lydiard, Lorraine wound up a 28-year stellar career as an undefeated master’s runner at her 4th Olympic Games at the age of 41. In 2006 she cofounded the Lydiard Foundation, a foundation dedicated to educating coaches and athletes in the art of endurance training and peaking. Please follow this link to find about more about Lorraine’s Lydiard coaching courses: https://lydiardfoundation.org or contact Lorraine on email at: lorraine@lydiardfoundation.org. Lorraine’s autobiography "On the Wings of Mercury," published in 2008, was launched by New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clark, and became #2 on the New Zealand Best Seller List. Lorraine lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Welcome to Episode 164 of the Final Surge Podcast where we welcome Coach Nobby of the "Lydiard Training & Academy" powered by "Five Circles".  Arthur Lydiard is a legendary coach and Nobby got to know Lydiard very well while he was still alive. We talk about the training system and he shares some personal stories about him. :44 How did you get your start in running and meet Arthur Lydiard 5:52 What is it about Arthur Lydiard that makes him such a legend? 7:06 You spent a year living with him, what was it like being around him all the time? 13:06 At that stage in his life did he spend a lot of time in education and staying up to date with the latest in training? 17:07 Lydiard you were peaking for that one big race a year, does it work as effectively when you have many races a year and not just the one big one? 20:35 What does a 3-month conditioning level look like? 22:19 Easy running is all relative, what does that look like? 25:05 Mark Allen talked about using 180-age, but this sounds like even less 26:10 It is not all long slow work, right? 30:53 What about a new or younger runner, how do you build up that base because of the long miles he has? 34:38 What are the other phases of Lydiard training after base? 39:44 Running Wizard is all Lydiard Training Plans? 42:22 You have three programs, what are the differences? 46:36 How many weeks are these plans? 47:31 How similar is the training between running distances? Resources RunningWizard.Net Newsletter - Noby@LydiardAcademy.org    

"Champions are everywhere....they just need to be trained correctly." -Arthur Lydiard If you want to hear a fantastic insight into the history, training and coaching philosophies of Arthur Lydiard and his pupils, then there is no better man to chat to than Keith Livingstone and that's who we have on the show today. This is a lengthy one, Keith's a fantastic story teller, I was spell bound, ideal for your next long run! Dr. Keith Livingstone not only was a high level distance runner himself in his day running; 14:04 for 5000m and 29:19 for 10,000m but was also a highly sought after chiropractor, running coach and now author of three books!  These include;  1.) Healthy Intelligent Training- the proven principles of Arthur Lydiard,  2.) Champions are Everywhere-The Schedules (A practical user friendly summary of Healthy Intelligent Training)  and  3.) Staring down the Beast- A book recounting Keith's survival journey after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor (glioblastoma multiforme) in 2007.  Keith also has a fantastic blog at; www.drkeith.com.au, where he has a number of fantastic interviews, blogs and If you are interested you can also purchase his books.

Wir freuen uns zu Beginn zunächst mal über euer tolles Feedback zu unserer ersten Folge #Bestzeit, genauso wie über Kritik und eure Themenwünsche. Gerne mehr davon! Außerdem haben wir in Folge zwei direkt einen sehr bekannten Läufer zu Gast, den viele von euch kennen dürften: Jan Fitschen. Nachdem es sich einige von euch gewünscht haben unterhalten sich Ralf und ich schließlich auch noch über Kenia, mein Training mit Renato Canova und das Trainingsprinzip "schneller werden durch langsamer laufen".

Moller's first international competition was the 1974 British Commonwealth Games at Christchurch, where she finished fifth in the 800 m. Her time of 2:03.63 was her lifetime best and is still the fastest ever by a New Zealand junior (under 20) woman.Although Moller ran her first marathon in 1979, there were no sanctioned marathons for females at an international athletics competition until 1984. She ran her first marathon on 23 June 1979, winning Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota in 2:37:37. She then won her next 7 marathons. She was a triple winner of the Osaka Ladies Marathon, and in 1984 won the Boston Marathon.All of Moller's four appearances at the Olympic Games were in the marathon. She won the Bronze medal in 1992 running 2:33:59In the 1993 New Year Honours, Moller was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to athletics.In 2012 she was inducted into the Boulder (Colorado) Sports Hall of Fame. She has worked with the Lydiard Foundation and the Master Plan training system to share the lessons of running coach Arthur Lydiard.

This week we get inspiration from one of the world’s great coaches, Arthur Lydiard. He became famous for his periodised training approach and the out-and-back was a common session he would do in the base conditioning phase, which was an athlete’s of-season—making this ideal for a lockdown workout. WHAT Arthur Lydiard’s Out-and-Back 15mins out 15mins[...]

This week I’m returning to the Legends of British Triathlon with another guest who was very prominent in the triathlon scene back in the mid to late 80’s.  Bernie Shrosbree started out in the Royal Marines and began his sporting career as a runner, then a cross country skier and biathlete.  A silly military bet saw him participating in his first triathlon in 1982 and Bernie quickly showed some talent at the sport, becaming overall British Triathlon champion in 1989.  Following this and his retirement from the military, he enjoyed a successful career as a fitness coach and mentor working with some very high profile athletes in a number of sports from Motor Rallying, Formula 1, Rowing and Mountain Biking.  Even though he has just turned 60 he retains a passion for the outdoors and the mountain life.  Later this year he is participating in the world famous swim-run event OTILLO with his daughter.  In this great conversation you’ll hear Bernie and I discuss a lot of topics so pay attention as we chat about: Taking part in forerunner of Arch to Arc Being a failed athlete (aka triathlete) Arthur Lydiard and his influence on Bernie’s athletic career Why a Norwegian skier told him “you look like you are skiing with your poles up your arse” Working with Colin McRae, Carlos Sainz, Jenson Button, James Cracknell and Jurgen Grobler Adapting to different cultures to become a better coach Why you should focus on yourself and not what others do, to improve as an athlete Technology and why it does Bernie’s head in Want to be a better older athlete? Hit the gym. Efficiency and why it’s the key to better performance For more information please go to www.SimonWardTriathlonCoach.com, or www.TheTriathlonCoach.com, or email Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com. 

I try to find words and concepts that encapsulate my guests, what they are about, and what we cover in each episode. In thinking about this one, the word that kept coming back to me was “mindset”. My guest is ultra endurance athlete Chris Solarz. Chris has set nine world records, including the total combined time for marathons on all seven continents, number of stairs climbed in 12 days, fastest time to visit all 468 stations in the New York City subway system, and more. He has completed hundreds of marathons, the Ultraman triathlon, the Epic 5 challenge, and recently raced the Deca Man, 10 Ironman distance triathlons in 10 days. So, who is this guy? Is he some type of professional ultra endurance athlete? Actually, no. Chris is married, a father of three and a Managing Director at a hedge fund. This is where the concept of mindset comes in. Chris has an incredible way of prioritising and integrating family, his passion for endurance sport, and his career. Of course, this isn't easy, as you will hear. However, there is a lot we can take away from the mindset that Chris has developed and apply it to any aspect of life. We get into that. Chris talks about his background, how he got into running and ultra endurance events, some of the world records he has set and more. However, this isn't a conversation about endurance training. It is about motivation, family, overcoming obstacles, managing time, prioritising, decision-making, and much more. I feel very privileged to bring this one to you. Chris is very authentic and insightful. I think you'll love it. Show notes: Chris on LinkedIn; Interview with Chris in The Week; Chris' 12 hour treadmill world record; Chris' stair climbing world record; Chris at the Epic 5; Arthur Lydiard; “It's Okay to be Good and Not Great” by Brad Stulberg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Get your free audio book and 30 day free trial at Audible: US listeners: get your free trial and audio book at Audible UK listeners: get your free trial and audio book at Audible _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ Like what you heard?  Subscribe and/or leave a rating and review on iTunes: http://apple.co/1PjLmK Subscribe on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/all-things-risk/the-all-things-risk-podcast Subscribe on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ben-cattaneo Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiskThings Drop us a note: allthingsrisk@gmail.com

“El secreto de correr más rápido es correr más distanciaâ€. Esta es la filosofía que nos presentan Arthur Lydiard y Matt Fitzgerald. La regla 80/20 del running se trata de correr el 80% de tus sesiones a una intensidad baja y el 20% a una intensidad alta. Te invitamos a que escuches el episodio completo por medio del reproductor a continuación o el de la parte inferior. Ambos son enlaces directos al audio donde puedes escucharlo vía streaming. Sin embargo, la mejor manera de consumir el contenido es suscribirte al podcast de running en español totalmente gratis.  Ya sea en iTunes o en uno de los cientos de directorios disponibles para Android incluyendo: Podcast Addict , TuneIn Radio, iVoox y Stitcher. Repetimos, es totalmente gratis. Una vez estés suscrito, descarga el episodio en una red Wifi y tendrás disponible el episodio para ser escuchado cuando quieras y donde quieras sin utilizar un solo mega de tu plan de internet.   Historia de la regla 80/20 del running. En las olimpiadas de Roma en 1960, el entrenador Arthur Lydiard se destacó entre sus colegas por sus resultados. En total, 17 de sus atletas lograron medallas. Esto causo mucho interés por sus métodos. Entre ellos, Lydiard recomienda manejar un entrenamiento con alto volumen a baja intensidad y el 20% restante con alta intensidad. Sin embargo, vale la pena recordar que la regla 80/20 del running no es algo exclusivo. La raíz original de esta regla fue establecida por Vilfredo Pareto, quien lo enunció por primera vez en su «Cours d’économie politique» de 1896. Desde ahí, este patrón se ha extrapolado a diferentes áreas incluyendo: Productividad, ingresos, béisbol y running, entre otros.   Validez de la regla 80/20 del running. Actualmente, muchos de los atletas élite siguen entrenando con la modalidad recomendada por Lydiard. Es normal que atletas manejen semanas de 160 kilómetros y respeten la sugerencia de hacer solo el 20% de sus entrenamientos a alta intensidad. Incluso, un libro que fue publicado en el 2014 por Matt Fitzgerald, confirma la validez de esta modalidad de entrenamiento. Recordemos que cuando hablamos de running, una persona puede controlar dos variables: Volumen e intensidad. De acuerdo a esto, un runner puede tener cuatro tipos de entrenamientos: Poco volumen – Baja intensidad Poco volumen – Alta intensidad Mucho volumen – Baja intensidad Mucho volumen – Alta intensidad. Según múltiples autores, la diferencia más grande entre un atleta élite y un aficionado es la intensidad en que corren sus sesiones suaves. Un élite corre el 80% de sus entrenamientos suaves y el 20% duro. Un runner aficionado suele repartir sus sesiones en un 50% suave y 50% intenso.   Zona X. Para lograr éxito con la regla 80/20 del running es necesario no solo hacer el 80% de los entrenamientos por debajo de la zona cardíaca # 2, pero evitar a toda costa la «Zona X». La zona X es definida por Fitzgerald como aquella zona en la cuál estás entrenando demasiado fuerte para ser una sesión regenerativa o de recuperación. Pero demasiado lento, para ser llamada una sesión intensa en la cual se busca hacer trabajos de umbrales en el Vo2Max. Según Fitzgerald, esta zona X se encuentra entre el 90 y el 95% de tu ritmo cardíaco máximo. No es ni zona 2 ni zona 3. Adicionalmente, Fitzgerald nombra la zona Y, que también resulta inútil, pero no tan dañina como la X. La zona Y es el punto intermedio entre la zona 3 y la zona 4.   Calculadora de zonas. Como lo dijimos en el episodio, si el tema de ritmo cardíaco es nuevo para tí, te recomendamos escuches el episodio # 35. Allí, explicamos pausadamente qué es y cómo implementarlo. Para incorporar la regla 80/20 del running a tus entrenamientos es casi obligatorio un monitor de ritmo cardíaco. Una vez lo tengas, lo siguiente es ingresar el resultado de una prueba de campo en esta calculadora que proviene del autor Fitzgerald. Esta prueba calcula lo que él llama tu ritmo cardíaco de «Low Threshold» o LTHR. Prueba de campo. Esta prueba de campo parece un poco difícil cuando la lees por primera vez, pero no es tan complicada como parece. Busca una caminadora (banda) que puedas programar a 1% de inclinación o un terreno plano que sea bueno para correr rápido. En caso que no lo hagas en la banda, ten a la mano algo para medir distancia, tiempo y ritmo cardíaco. Una pista estándar de 400 metros es ideal. Aseguráte de estar descansado y no haber hecho ningún entrenamiento fuerte 1 o 2 días antes. Empieza con un trote muy suave por 10 minutos. Luego, empieza a correr a la velocidad más rápida que creas que puedas sostener por 30 minutos. La idea es que mantengas ese ritmo por todos los 30 minutos y evitar desacelerar en el final. Cuando completes 10 minutos de correr rápido, escribe el ritmo cardiaco que estas experimentado y la distancia que has completado. Continua corriendo a la misma velocidad sin parar por 20 minutos adicionales. Cuando completes los 20 minutos restantes de carrera rápida, registra nuevamente tu ritmo cardíaco y distancia completada. Ahora, suma el ritmo cardíaco que registraste al final de los 10 minutos (ZC-1) y el ritmo cardíaco que registraste al final de los 20 minutos (ZC-2). Una vez tengas ese número, divídelo en 2 (LTHR). Ese número que obtienes es tu ritmo cardiaco «Low Threshold». Ingresa ese número en la calculadora que enlazamos arriba para calcular todas tus otras zonas.   Recomendaciones para adoptar entrenamiento 80/20. Al inicio es difícil correr más lento de lo que tu crees es lento. Para lograr entrenar bajo la regla 80/20 del running, es necesario tener paciencia. Mientras logras perfeccionar correr en la zona 2, tus ritmos seguramente serás muy lentos. Pero poco a poco, verás que vas a poder correr más y más rápido sin pasar de la zona 2. En el episodio hablamos de estas recomendaciones: Mantente alerta porque puedes distraerte y aumentar el ritmo sin notarlo. Romper el hábito de presionarte en tus entrenamiento toma tiempo, sé paciente. Sal a correr con una persona que está apenas iniciando o tiene un nivel inferior al tuyo. Aunque difícil, puedes adoptar una ciclo de entrenamiento de 9 días, en vez del semanal. Correr más lento necesita interiorizarse tanto en la mente del corredor como en su cuerpo. Adopta la regla 80/20 del running, pensando siempre que así obtendrás mejores resultados. Incluir 1 o 2 días de jornada doble. Trote suave en la tarde después de la sesión fuerte de la mañana.   Consecuencias de no entrenar con la regla 80/20 de running. El problema con el entrenamiento que divide 50/50 las sesiones fuertes y suaves es que pareciera que no tuviera efectos negativos. Sin embargo, según Fitzgerald, este patrón causa directa o indirectamente tres consecuencias a largo plazo: Lesiones. Debido a que no te recuperás 100% antes de hacer el siguiente entrenamiento duro. No hay progreso. Lesiones impiden correr más distancia. Esto va directamente en contra de la filosofía de Lydiard «El secreto de correr más rápido es correr más distancia». Estancamiento. Se graba en la memoria muscular el ritmo de la zona X. A la hora de competir, no puedes abandonar este ritmo habitual ni te puedes exigir.   Libros recomendados En el episodio mencionamos dos libros. Uno que no tiene nada que ver con running, pero hace referencia de la regla 80/20 de Pareto. Su nombre en inglés es The 4-Hour work week, (La semana laboral de 4 horas). Adicionalmente, mencionamos el libro de Matt Fitzgerald, 80/20 Running. Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower.   Suscripción gratuita al podcast. Aquí están ambos enlaces para Android y iOS Apple. Sin embargo, si prefieres utilizar los reproductores integrados a la página, ponemos a tu disposición el de iVoxx en la parte superior y otro aquí en la parte inferior. Aquí está el calendario completo de todos los episodios que tenemos al aire hasta el momento.       The post TP057: Regla 80/20 del running. Correr más distancia para mejorar velocidad. appeared first on Trotadores.

Dave Van Sickle From Iowa, did track to stay in shape for football DII football and track athlete Moved to Arizona in 1982 to see how fast could run post-college Started coaching in 1983 Started middle distance coaching in high school then local community college needed a coach and took over their cross country program, not knowing how to score a cross country meet After 3-4 years there moved around the country for a few years  in 1990, at age of 30, got a full-time job a Xavier High School in Phoenix and been there since Sponge for learning and sat with Arthur Lydiard for 3 hours Stephanie  Bruce Ran for Dave and Xavier in high school 1998-2002 She came on as an unfocused freshman Eating habits were horrible Was stuck at 5:28 for a few years before breaking through as a senior with 4:54 in just a few weeks When asked how that happened, she thought she was running hard, now knew what running hard was Doing the basics, but with super motivation and you can have breakthroughs Things were kept simple Training Early in career SebCo was a big influence and trained like him with circuits and low miles Mid-distance kids had success but the long distance was not having the success Later in 80's started learning more about aerobic component First-year Xavier only 5 girls and only 5 could run 3 miles Woke me up to the importance of being an aerobic distance coach Late 90's saw an advertisement for Jack Daniels looking for research subjects and volunteered Learned energy systems from Jack and touching on all of them in every phase Had to slow the kids down, they were running too hard Coaching Girls Girls are easier, generally listen better and loyal and will give it everything they have Girls tougher Girls will go through a year where they don't get better When they become a woman it gets harder for them and they need to get through it Prepare them for it What does season look like? Start in May 1-2 weeks off after track State meet Long progression start 25 minutes for the first two weeks and then add minutes Start hill sprints early Tempo runs start at 10 minutes If vacation still responsible to run and communicate what they did End of summer camp Week Monday do about 5 miles progression runs, then hill sprints with long recovery to hit hard Will work up to 16-20 hills with walk down, 30-second hill Total for day around 8 miles Tuesday we get up to 60-minutes recovery Wednesday steady over rolling hills up to 75-minutes probably 9 miles Thursday hard effort day 5xmile 5-6 seconds slower than race pace 400 recovery or something like fast mile, tempo, end 400s Friday OYO Saturday long run up to 100 minutes with tempo work, 10 sets of 10 minutes with last two minutes of each segment tempo

In this episode we discuss effective tapering and freshening up for the marathon as the Melbourne Marathon draws ever nearer. Lisa gets over her niggles only to develop blisters from her new shoes and mash her toes on her longest training run to-date. She records a great time in the wind at the Tan Relays, but ends the week under a dark cloud of fatigue. Brian fails to execute the first session of windsprints in his sharpening block, which results in revisions to his program for the final stages of training and tapering. Meanwhile he gets through the biggest Fartlek Friday of the program and spends close to three hours on feet during his final very long run. Resources and references discussed in this episode: Advanced Marathoning (Chapter 5 - Tapering for Peak Marathon Performance) by Pfitzinger and Douglas, Running to the Top by Arthur Lydiard, Hansons Marathon Method by Luke Humphrey. The Physical Performance Show 119: Dick Telford - Aus Distance Running Coach + Sports Scientist. Brian's version 3.0 training program including modifications to taper. What is a MAF test? Connect with Brian and Lisa: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runningtechniquetips/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RunningTechniqueTips/ Twitter: @BrianRunCoach YouTube: http://youtube.com/runningtechniquetv

Brian battles it out with his brother at the Bairnsdale Park Run and relearns why racing 5k is hard after a six year break. Meanwhile, Lisa finds herself juggling too many balls in the air and bonks in a 10k, but still runs the first 5k faster than Brian's Park Run. We chat about Brian's 2018 Melbourne marathon training plan, Lisa's revised 2018 NYC marathon plan and discuss strategies for approaching longer runs. Resources and references discussed in this episode: A 2012 blog post from Running Technique Tips about the perils of having too many balls in the air. Dr Phil Maffetone talks to Trail Runner Nation Podcast about slowing down to speed up. Dr Phil Maffetone and Dr Mark Cucuzzella talk about running as recovery from life stress. Lydiard wind sprints explained. Video of Brian trying to do Lydiard Style Hill training. Running to the Top by Arthur Lydiard. Adam Didyk talks to Brady Threlfall on TMYT - listen from 1:03:40 for the 15k marathon pace session. Finally, Brian's Melbourne marathon training plan and Lisa's revised NYC marathon training plan.

Brian develops a sore foot, makes a mistake in training, but manages to finish the week in one piece by backing off the pace. Lisa's week was one of her best finishing up with a speedy two hour long run that felt better the longer she went. We talk about the elements of a successful marathon training plan and Lisa describes her training program leading into the 2018 NYC Marathon. Brian questions whether Lisa has built enough recovery and easy running into her strategy, and we debate the optimal length of a marathon pace simulation run. Resources and references discussed in this episode: Advanced Marathoning by Pfitzinger and Douglas, Running to the Top by Arthur Lydiard, Hansons Marathon Method by Luke Humphrey. The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing by Phil Maffetone and Lisa's draft NYC marathon training plan. Finally, here's a link to a 2012 Running Technique Tips Blog post to remind us that our training programs are just a plan. Connect with Brian and Lisa: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RunningTechniqueTips/ Twitter: @BrianRunCoach YouTube: http://youtube.com/runningtechniquetv

Brian battles through record low temperatures in Ballarat as he strives towards the 80km per week training plateau as the Melbourne Marathon looms 12 weeks away. He attempts (and makes a video of) an Arthur Lydiard style hill workout in a bid to stave off lower leg injuries and develop more strength. He spends the weekend in Wodonga and has a cracking 18km training run on the local rail trail with his brother. Meanwhile Lisa moves well through some 400m repetitions on the track and chases some hills, before a king tide and small human induced sleep deprevation threaten to derail her training week. She finishes the week on a high note with a good long run over hills. This week's conversation centres around slower speed and aerobic effort based training. Brian embraces Lydiard and Maffetone training principles while Lisa asks "how slow is too slow?". Brian questions his younger self, while getting philisophical about the parallels between the slow food movement and slower running while Lisa wonders if he's lost the plot. The conversation finishes up with a challenge to check if your easy training pace really is! Resources and references discussed in this podcast: Lydiard Hill Training. A video of Brian trying to run up a hill video. The MAF formula Phil Maffetone - 180 Formula. The Lydiard Foundation website. A runners' world article where Peter Snell talks about the physiological benefits of long runs. Brian's old blog post about the potential pitfalls of too much slow running. Link to Daniels' Running Formula. Link to Flinders Island Running Festival. Interview where coach Adam Didyk talks about his 15km marathon pace training session - Tell Me Your Tales Podcast. Australian runner Shaun Creighton discusses his easy pace - Inside Running Podcast. Connect with Brian and Lisa: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RunningTechniqueTips/ Twitter: @BrianRunCoach YouTube: http://youtube.com/runningtechniquetv

This spiky item helped a relatively unknown New Zealand athlete seize gold, and instant fame, at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

Welcome to episode 54 of the Final Surge podcast where today we talk to triathlete turned coach Marcelo Holcberg. We discuss with Marcelo who his biggest influences are, how busy professionals can train for triathlons and how he works with periodization. Remember to follow us on Twitter @FinalSurge and don't forget to subscribe and rate us on iTunes. How did you get your start in endurance athletics? What was the hardest part of the transition from running to triathlons? When did you make that transition from successful athlete to coaching? You moved to the US in the late 90s and decided to build a coaching business, what was it like moving to a new country and building a coaching business where you probably did not know a whole lot of people? All great coaches learn from other people Arthur Lydiard, Phil Maffetone, Joe Vigil, these are some well-known coaches, whose training methods have had the biggest impact on our coaching philosophy? How many people are you coaching now? What is the typical profile of your client? If you have a non-professional athlete who works a full-time job, maybe travels for their job, has a husband or wife at home and three kids, what do you need to take into consideration to create a plan that they can execute, do consistently and reach their goals? Do most of the athletes you coach come from a running background, or what is their athletic background? You start to work with a new client who has a running background who wants to become a triathlete, how do you start working with them? Do you work with most of your athletes in person or do you do virtual coaching too? You mention you may get a 3:15 marathoner who comes to you, how do you break it up early in their training between the run which they are experienced with vs. bike and swim? You talked about Periodization in your training, Is a training plan much like a running plan where you start with a base of time/miles and as you get closer to the event the more race specific it becomes and is it different for each of the disciplines? How does your peak week for a triathlon differ from the early weeks, do you change the time with maybe bike or swim and focus more on the area they are weaker in? For the average athlete, you have that comes to you looking to do their first triathlon how long do you like an athlete to have to work on a program before they try their first triathlon? In your coaching how much do you use heart rate or power zones vs going strictly by feel? Come race day how do you plan out your race? What advice do you have for knowing the best race strategy for that new triathlete? You mention transition zones, how much time can be saved or lost in a transition between the two transition zones? How much time do you work on the transitions? Let's talk about some of the most common sticky points or FAQ’s -How do you find the right race for you? -How can you spot and correct under or over training -How do you do rest days when you are going hard on swim one day, do you come back with a hard bike or run or do you need a rest day? -What are some of the key workouts you have that you think may be a good indicator of fitness and how ready someone is for their next race? You have been in the sport a long time, how has it changed since the late 80’s? You are starting a new a Youth Development Running Program in Miami, can you tell us about that? Final Surge 5 questions in under a minute Favorite endurance/running book? - Jim Fixx Complete book of Running Current trainers you are wearing? -  Asics DSTrainer Favorite race? - Anything inside of Central Park Favorite recovery meal or recovery drink? - Chocolate milk Your favorite workout - Hills running how can people follow you on social or online Website Tri2One Instagram  

The third and final episode of our in-depth three-part interview with New Zealand running legend and Olympic bronze medalist Barry Magee. This final episode covers Barry’s coaching which started in 1962 and is still going strong today, carrying on the legacy left by Arthur Lydiard. Barry Magee’s Coaching: http://www.upandrunning.co.nz TempoFit in Auckland: http://www.tempofit.org/auckland/ TempoFit in Hawke’s Bay:[...]

The second of our in-depth three-part interviews with New Zealand running legend and Olympic bronze medalist Barry Magee. This second episode covers the golden years of New Zealand running in the early 60s with Arthur Lydiard’s boys dominating the world. Barry Magee’s Coaching: http://www.upandrunning.co.nz TempoFit in Auckland: http://www.tempofit.org/auckland/ TempoFit in Hawke’s Bay: http://www.tempofit.org/group-fitness/hawkes-bay/ TempoFit in Dunedin: http://www.tempofit.org/group-fitness/dunedin/ TempoFit[...]

The first of our in-depth three-part interviews with New Zealand running legend and Olympic bronze medalist Barry Magee. This first episode covers the early years from birth to becoming part of a team led by Arthur Lydiard who had transformed the New Zealand running scene. No Treats Till Christmas: https://www.tempofit.org/no-treats-till-christmas/ Barry Magee’s Coaching: http://www.upandrunning.co.nz TempoFit in[...]

In this first episode, Rogue coaches Steve Sisson and Chris McClung talk about Breaking2, Nike's sub-two-hour marathon project, and the foundational training principles of Arthur Lydiard. Lydiard is the father of modern, elite-level distance coaching, but his methods don't always make sense on the surface. Listen to this episode to understand more and learn how to apply Lydiard's principles to your own running. 

My favorite podcast thus far - which saying something as I love them all - due to the content and banter with one of my dear friends, Zach Hancock.  Zach was the primary editor for my Simple Marathon Training book. We walk through the various parts of the book, with lots of tangents, which I think you will enjoy. Zach is thoughtful and fun and funny and smart, which makes for a great interview - conducted in his Air Stream trailer in Boulder, CO, no less. As a former 3:45 1,500m runner and huge track fan - he took his wife to the Prefontaine Classic a few years ago as the vacation for the summer - Zach has many thoughts on the sport, which I'm confident you'll enjoy. Zach and I conclude the podcast with his retelling of visiting Arthur Lydiard in his home. Again, if you are a student of the sport you'll love hearing about his visit. Thanks so much Zach for your thoughtfulness and care editing the book and thank you for a wonderful interview. Enjoy!!!

Biography:Welcome to the first episode of the Olympic Legends Podcast!  My guest today is Barry Magee, the Bronze Medalist from the 1960 Marathon in Rome.Barry hails from New Zealand, and he has had a long, distinguished career as a versatile runner of many distances including the mile, 5K, 10K, and the marathon.  He was a protégé of legendary coach Arthur Lydiard (considered by many to be the greatest running coach of all time), and at the age of 81 he is still active in coaching people of all ages in the Lydiard Way.  In addition to his bronze medal, he competed in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and set a host of other national and international records throughout his career. Conversation:I had a great time talking to Barry for about an hour, but just as we were finishing up, technology reared its ugly head and sadly the record of our conversation was lost.  I remembered much of what we talked about, so I summarized it monologue-style for the first part of the podcast, and when I called him back after our call dropped, he was kind enough to talk to me for a few additional minutes, so at least you can at least hear him speak for a little bit.0:01 - Introduction1:59 - My summary of the lost conversation12:37 - Barry joins in20:05 - Epilogue21:02 - End of the show Your browser does not support this audio The embedded player works best in Google Chrome.  You can also download the mp3 by clicking here.Additional Links:A great profile of Barry on the "Becky Runs Away" blog.Barry's Running School's website where he mentors New Zealand runners young and oldThe New Zealand National Anthem by Hayley Westenra.  For my money, this is the #1 national anthem in the world.  Other favorite anthems on my list include Germany, England, Canada, the U.S., Spain, and Italy, but "God Defend New Zealand" is the most goosebump inducing of them all.

Our WORKOUT OF THE WEEK this week is about the 'long training run'.  How long should it be, how fast and when. We introduce a couple of new segments into our show the first being 'THE GEEK-OUT' In this segment we talk about the more geeky, nerdy and even maybe a little 'dweeby' side of endurance sports! This week Mikki (The Nerd) Williden talks marathon racing and age/gender research. Who paces better, men or women! THE 5 MINUTE FOCUS - The second of our new segments which looks at product, practitioners, software - in fact anything we think you’d like to hear about to make you fitter and faster! This week it's Osteopathy and we talk to Claire Peat Owner/Operator of Rosedale Road Osteopaths. ONE STEP AHEAD - Fat based gels. There's changes afoot in the sports gel market.  Mikki tells us what's out there that's good! HOT PROPERTY INTERVIEW - Our interview this week is with Keith Livingstone, elite distance runner, chiropractor and author of the highly acclaimed running book 'Healthy Intelligent Training', based on the theories of the legendary New Zealand running coach Arthur Lydiard. LINKS: Claire Peat, Osteopath can be found at http://www.osteopathyforeveryone.co.nz/index.html  Bobby McGee’s run/walk protocol http://bobbymcgee.com/runwalk-in-training-racing-its-ano-brainer-even-olympians-use-this-methodology/  Article: Are you overemphasizing the marathon long run – http://www.icontactarchive.com/Sl59-ZYTxF44cznCb9Utp2sQcaa1wtUo?w=4  Justin’s Nut Butter sachets at http://justins.com/our-products/  Buy Justin’s Nut Butters cheaply online at http://www.iherb.com/    More about Pocket Fuel at http://www.pocketfuelnaturals.com/  Artisana ‘squeeze packs’ can be found at http://www.artisanafoods.com/squeeze-packs/  More about Keith Livingstone at http://hitsystem.com.au/  CONTACT US: Learn more about us at http://www.fitter.co.nz  Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/fittercoaching/  for the latest news and information Mikki Williden can be found at https://www.facebook.com/mikkiwillidennutrition   

I talk with Olaf Sorenson about his quest to run a 2:40 marathon on a ketogenic diet. We talk about high-fat food, minimal running shoes, and training according to Arthur Lydiard

In April of 1990, Arthur Lydiard gave a lecture in Osaka Japan as part of a clinic he conducted in Tokyo and Osaka.  From that trip, numerous articles were written in running magazines all over the world, and the material he covered led to his publishing a book titled “Running With Lydiard”. He is without a doubt one of the greatest athletic coaches of all time, and is credited with popularizing and inventing the sport of recreational running and jogging for health.  His training methods were all about building a strong base and incorporating periodization and there are many world class runners today who give credit to the man for their impressive success on the track, fields and roads. This is the exact spoken presentation of his Osaka lecture in conversational form that sometimes wanders outside the rules of grammatical perfection, it lacks the physical expressions that were transmitted during the lecture, and is often a stream of conscious thoughts that converge on more solid themes, but in this episode I’ll read them exactly as they were spoken because: as a whole; the message is brilliant. These are the words of the great coach Arthur Leslie Lydiard. Dictated and edited by Nobuya “Nobby” Hashizume Show Links:Fdip Blog of the Week: “Run” by “Dirty Proper”