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Lydiard Training
The maker of champions is back. With our custom-made Lydiard training programmes, brought to you in collaboration with Master Run Coach you benefit from the conditioning and training system that made Arthur Lydiard the world’s most successful track and field coach and conditioner of athletes for all sports. If you are ready to make a 12-24 week commitment, we can help you to peak performance.
Resources
With ChampionsEverywhere we are opening a new portal for coaches, athletes and competitors to learn, share, and discuss training, nutrition, psychology and all the other factors intrinsic to performance. Browse our training guides, our extensive list of articles, interviews and reviews, and enjoy our videos and podcasts. And most of all, contribute your own thoughts and views!
Natural Movement workshops
Many of us suffer from injuries because of poor movement patterns arising from a sedentary lifestyle. These patterns are reversible: We are organising the 2nd NATURAL RUNNING and NATURAL MOVEMENT WORKSHOPs on June 9th/10th with human movement expert Antony Riddle. Sign up now and learn how to manage your own injury prevention.
Hook Hockey Competition
Win your Hockey Team an Orbana Healthy Energy Kit on Hook Hockey – Ireland’s best news and information site for Hockey! Read our article on the Benefits of Orbana Healthy energy for Hockey Players and other nutritional tips if you’re looking to improve your performance on the hockey pitch or for another team sport.
Who are we?
We are group of Irish athletes who believe, like Lydiard did, that champions are everywhere, and that everyone deserves access to the advice on training, nutrition and lifestyle to make the best of their abilities.To this end, our website provides a plethora of information, access to personalised training plans, online coaching and the world’s best healthy energy product. Our list of products will constantly grow to support our vision.
Our aim
Athletes from Europe, the US and Oceania dominated running in the 50s up to the mid-80s but do not do so any more. What went wrong? Our aim is to return athletes to the proven training methodologies of this period and help athletes adopt a natural lifestyle, return to injury-free movement patterns and stop them spending more time in the treatment room than out on the roads and trails. We aim to create a Centre of Excellence for all athletes interested in returning to “the old ways”.
What we do
We offer a complete coaching model focusing on both the technical, physiological and psychological aspects of each athlete’s training as well as advice on nutrition, diet and other factors that affect performance. All we do is based on helping you return to a more natural lifestyle, closer to what today’s Kenyan and Ethiopian runners have, or our great runners of the 50s-80s. Are teachings draw on the principles of Arthur Lydiard, Percy Cerutty, Joseph Pilates, Dudley Morton, Phil Maffetone, Nicolas Romanov and others.
Proud suppliers of Orbana
Can you have a sports drink as healthy as a banana and with a pleasant natural taste like an orange? Since Orbana launched in the United Kingdom, the answer has been ‘yes’ to that question. It took years of research to finally create an energy drink that improves both your health and your performance. We offer exclusive distribution in Ireland. To get Orbana just go to our shop. Special launch offer:Â buy a 16 sachet box for only 30 euros!
Testimonials
…I did feel at the end of my base training that I’d love to have been in a position to continue with the training programme and finish a marathon. I never felt stronger…Read More »
…reacts quickly to personal needs and has a answer for each running specific problem …the go-to destination for all runners no matter what environment or distance you tackle…Read More »
Adrian Tucker
I tried the Lydiard Marathon programme for the purpose of building a base, but I had no intention of actually running a marathon (I was aiming for an ultra at the time and just needed mileage). But I did feel at the end of my base training that I’d love to have been in a position to continue with the training programme and finish a marathon. I never felt stronger.
The programme I used consisted of 8 weeks base building. What I found most beneficial from it was that it built up nice and slowly in small chunks. No individual run was too long, yet during each week the programme incorporated 3 longish runs. For example by week 8, I was doing a 130 min, a 95 min, and a 105 min. Each of the runs was set at a different average pace, and this I found great to distract from any boredom, it also put my HR Monitor to good use.
In-between these longish runs there was a fartlek, an out & back run, and 2 nice short jogs. For the ‘out & back’, I basically did a pace run at a slightly quicker pace than advised.
Overall I found that the training gave me great strength and stamina and was the perfect base to lead into good anaerobic sessions.
One drawback that the programme had was the amount of time required, especially when you have 3 longish runs every week. Most other programmes would only have one long run per week. But hey, if you sign up to it you gotta make some sacrifices!!”
-Adrian Tucker, ultra-marathoner and Wicklow Round finisher
Markus Roessel
“Running is an ideal outlet for every mood and feeling. Consequently, training should be fun and efficient. It doesn’t matter if you try to complete your first 5k race, crack the 3 hours in the Marathon or just boost your general health and wellbeing.
A clear goal mixed with a straightforward structure and every goal is achievable. René (My ChampionsEverywhere coach) delivers exactly that for all his clients. Based on the popular and established philosophy of Arthur Lydiard, René breaks down the principles precisely to every runners needs and abilities.
René reacts quickly to personal needs and has a answer for each running specific problem. Clear and simple directives paired with new ideas and a balanced effort towards a defined goal makes René the go-to destination for all runners no matter what environment or distance you tackle.“
- Markus Roessel, marathon runner, triathlete and CEO Europe of Mzungo.org
