‘Coach of the Century’ now a centurian On July 6th 2017 it would have been Arthur Lydiard’s 100th birthday. If you hadn’t realised by now we are advocates of this great New Zealand man’s work and our company name ‘ChampionsEverywhere’ is derived from one of his quotes: “There are champions everywhere. Every street’s got them.…
Our training method uses a set of phases modeled closely after the guidelines provided by Arthur Lydiard, the master coach, whose system forms the core of our coaching at ChampionsEverywhere . Our model includes approaches that we agree with from a wide range of coaches including Arthur Newton, Percy Cerutty, Bruce Tulloh and many more. Pre-training We…
Is your sport soccer, GAA, rugby, hockey, volleyball or another team sport? If so you may be wondering what our site can offer you apart from Orbana and advice on nutrition. Surely, the physical requirements of team sports fundamentally differ from pure endurance sports and the Lydiard training philosophy cannot be applied? Why teams need…
Barry Minnock is an international mountain runner and member of the Irish Marathon Mission with a PB of 2:17 for the distance. It’s been a great week – 2 races, 2 PBs, 1 victory, 1 course record & some pocket money. I’m only 6 weeks into my Lydiard training programme from Rene Borg and it’s…
Aoife Joyce lost almost eighteen months of regular training due to a mysterious nerve injury and had to be eased back into full Lydiard training. Below she shares her views on how to use the system when returning from injury. I’m just coming back from injury – can I use the Lydiard system? I first…
Our ChampionsEverywhere coaches travelled to the Lydiard Coaches Certification Invitational on the weekend of the 9th-11th September organised by the Lydiard Foundation: “For the past 7 years the Lydiard Foundation has been dedicated to preserving the legacy of the late, great coach, Arthur Lydiard. While staying true to the principles that have made this the premier…
