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Title: Running to the Top by Arthur Lydiard ISBN: 3-89124-440-1 Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Try actually reading it
Comment: Criticism of Lydiard based on the idea that he recommended "long slow running" indicates that the reviewer didn't actually try paying attention to what Lydiard wrote. If a three-hour marathoner running his Monday ten-miler at 6:30 pace and his Friday 10-miler at 6:15 pace - not even in base phase, this is in conditioning BEFORE you get to base phase - it that is your idea of "slow" distance, then your idea varies greatly from mine. Go back and read what he says comprises "half-effort" - for a 5:00 miler, Lydiard's version of half-effort is 5:16. If you're going to criticize an author, please read the source document.
Rating: 5 Rating: 3 Buy "Running to the Top" to get a glimpse at Lydiard the man and to pick up some tips on how to engage with your children in sport. Don't buy it and start running 150 miles a week. Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
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Summary: I laughed when I heard them criticize Lydiard...
Comment: Arthur Lydiard's ideas are "outdated"???? Hardly. Lydiard was responsible for the training that led to world domination by successive waves of New Zealanders, Finns, and Africans. Ingrid Kristiansen's Lydiard-like training enabled her to set a marathon record that stood for 15 years. Peter Snell's 4:54 mile time, 30 years ago, would still place him high in many international competitions. As for
Summary: an interesting historical document
Comment: Arthur Lydiard experienced his greatest popularity in the '70s. Since then, everyone has soured on just straight high-mileage (lots of long slow distance) with many working in more quality work, or altitude training, or trying to do everything at lactate threshold like the Kenyans do. So, in a large part, Lydiard's training techniques are no longer state of the art. To purchase this book as a training bible would be to miss the point, however. "Running to the Top" is best treated as a manifesto of a brilliantly indosyncratic man, a man who genuinely belived in his theory. Lydiard's occasional asides about rugby team training (he put them on a high mileage plan, and they started having more endurance in matches) and his (absolutely correct) insistence on vibrant and prolonged physical activity in children (of any kind) are gems. Similar Books:
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