This book is for all serious middle distance athletes and coaches. It is based on the proven principles of New Zealand’s Arthur Lydiard, the Runner’s World ‘Coach of the Century’, who trained a motley band of neighborhood kids into feared Olympic medalists, and kept on doing it, around the world.
These principles have since guided athletes from many nations to world records and Olympic Gold medals. Now you can plan your own campaigns, and understand exactly what you’re doing at every step. This book can be used and understood by everyone.
A former national-level runner and race winner over track, cross-country, and road in New Zealand and Australia, Dr. Livingstone, a coach and chiropractor, has joined forces with fellow enthusiasts, Olympic-level coaches, and Olympic medalists to provide a simple, logical template for you to plan your own winning programs.
You’ll be taken through each successive layer of the training pyramid, and understand what type of work fits in at each level leading to peak performance.
You will understand the physiology very clearly and simply so that you will know which workouts will help, and which will hinder.
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Acknowledgements
This book started as a Powerpoint presentation and 20-page summary sheet for local coaches in Victoria, in late 2005. As athletes and coaches asked more and more questions it became evident that more was needed, and so the book idea was born.
There are many people to thank, and I hope I miss no one. Firstly, my thanks go to my beautiful wife Joanne and her patient parents Graeme and Junette Phillips for all their support. This book could not have been done without them. My mother Valerie McCabe has encouraged me all along and taken great interest in the book’s progress.Dr. John Hinwood and Dennis Jones have been a great support during a challenging year while the book came to fruition. Gavin and Allison Richards at MBE Bendigo helped us print the initial drafts for proof reading.
My brother Colin, who has been a tower of strength during the last year, contributed the superb cartoons for this book. Colin was an accomplished runner who has coached local athlete Tim Davies from 17th in Wales to 5th in the world mountain running championships, as well as to 3 victories in the annual race on Mt. Snowdon. Colin’s gifted wife Diana Mills took some of the photos in the book. Next, I’d like to thank Barry Magee, Lorraine Moller, Nobby Hashizume, Vern Walker and Rod and John Dixon for their input, as well as Arch Jelley, Chris Pilone, Nic Bideau, Robbie Johnston,and the flying professor, Roger Robinson.