We love our jobs as running technique specialists, we know what the ideal characteristics of a runner with good technique looks like…but the real skill is moulding the runners we work with into that ideal. Coaching Cues We achieve this through coaching cues. Each cue has it’s own individual and personal meaning to the student.…
What level of improvement can you expect after one of our ‘Running form’ workshops? Watch out shortly for our dedicated page showing footage of some legends of the Irish off-road scene: current ultra-running phenomenon Paul Tierney and former mountain running world champion John Lenihan. ‘Running form’ workshop videos All the below videos were…
When rehabilitating yourself from shod-running back to your natural running style, bare foot running is an essential part of your training (as this, of course, was the human body’s default running condition). However, years of atrophy and feet encapsulated in narrow and cushy running shoes means that you will perceive it as quite extreme to…
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…
Berlin, Olympic Stadium, May 2064 The two men sat reclined against the plush comfy seats in the 160000 seater “Merkel Arena”, named after the great German stateswoman who united the squabbling dysfunctional states of the then European Union into the Federal States of Europe. Despite this, the federal states still kept much of their old…
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…
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…
