When Arthur Lydiard published his first running book, he was reluctant to post any training plans in them. Word has it that he worried about runners reading the plans without understanding the underlying principles and would go out and either 1) get hurt or 2) under perform. I have heard many coaches say “Arthur Lydiard…
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…
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…
