Introduction From a human motor development perspective, the efficient manipulation of our own bodyweight played a key role in our physical maturation. During this process, the external forces of gravity and ground reaction, alongside the internal forces of muscle contraction and elasticity, influenced the size, structure and function of our bodies. When viewed through an…
This workout can be used by any runner who has been instructed in basic jumping, balancing, vaulting, lunging and sprinting techniques. I came up with it on the August Bank Holiday as a quick morning workout that takes less than 30 minutes including warm-up and cool-down. Equipment needed 1 x gate (1m high or so)…
I found myself in the unlikeliest of places last weekend along with 4,000 other people, the ‘Hell and Back’ challenge taking place in Belmont Estate in Co. Wicklow. 12km of some of the most interesting terrain and obstacles I have yet had the ‘pleasure’ of running through. My younger brother and friends had bought their…
We try to produce a steady stream of interesting video content for our readers, so we’ve created this page to help you sort through them more easily: Lydiard related videos Interview with Cameron Graves: A talk with Cameron Graves, NZ youth international and Lydiard athlete Interview with Jorge Torres: We talk to Jorge Torres,…
We literally have a book’s worth of information about our injury free coaching model for runners and other athletes, so below we’ve compiled them all for you in an easy to browse format. Enjoy the reading and hope to see you at our workshops. Athletics Illustrated High mileage and low injury rate: It is…
When I began thinking about this article, which was only a few hours ago, I wondered if I should call it “Day in the life of a Paleo-Athlete” or “A natural running day” but then I thought better of it because our hunter-gathering ancestors were not athletes in the way we understand it today and…
There are many runners out there now who are in the process of transitioning to a more natural and more minimalist running style such as that seen in earlier generations of runners (from the 50s-70s), who practically ran in plim-soles, or the running style of barefoot populations. Download the “Fun transition training programme into natural…
We collected a number of injuries from our followers on Facebook and through our customers against the promise that we would write about how their particular injury could be fixed permanently by using Tony Riddle’s principles. Going to one of our workshops are clearly an investment. Why do so many of us go onto the…
I had intended to call this article “Put the fun back into cross-training” but then I realised it was never that fun in the first place. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, cross-training just means training in a sport or a discipline other than the one you compete in. For a swimmer, running…
What would Arthur Lydiard, the maker of champions, have thought of all these fads coming out? Naturalmovement, barefoot, natural movement drills? Surely, a master coach who turned New Zealand into the “Kenya of its day”, a serious practitioner of his craft, would have no time for such ideas when there was “serious” athletics training to…
After our natural movement workshop it was clear that to keep improving our running technique, Aoife and I would need to buy shoes that were not conflicting with what we were trying to achieve. Luckily, like the participants in our workshop, Tony Riddle and VivoBarefoot kindly provided us with a discount code for purchases in…
