- Hot Weather Hydration — Proceed With Caution! Science gets it…wrong again. Drinking ‘ til your belly bursts is wrong.
- Can Runners Improve Their Speed AND Endurance? Ha ha ha. Don’t even think about it. A look at oops-theory.
- Running and the Balanced Life. Running teaches us to balance our lives. Ignore the lesson and we suffer.
- Revolutionary Approach to Improving Running Power. Leg strength has vast implications for speed, and far beyond, for improving oxygen power with much less effort.
- How to Run Your First 50-Miler. Dropped on your head as an infant? Here’s the sport for you!
- Training for Your First Marathon. A practical approach.
- An Interview with Three-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Peter Snell. Rich Engelhart interviews Arthur Lydiard’s most famous pupil.
- A (Not Very) Deep Secret of Successful Runners. How can a runner improve quickly? The answer is simple, and it’s a secret of success in other sports and even in academe.
- Recovery Part 1. Get Over It. Recovery is half the battle.
- Recovery Part 2. Optimizing Recovery. Train better between runs.
- Recovery Part 3: Kitchen-Sink Recovery Drink. A cheap, easy formula for runners on a budget.
- Two Ways of Thinking About Recovery (One is Wrong). Should we train to improve recovery? Or fitness?
- Run Fast to Race Fast? The Genius of Renato Canova. Has the great Italian coach replaced Arthur Lydiard? Probably not.
- Sports Injuries: No Coddling for “Owies”. Injuries usually get better faster when we keep the affected area active.
- How to Get Fast. What kind of speedwork is best? How to develop speed-endurance?
- How to Get (Even) Faster. A surprising, proven way to improve your speed.
- And How to Get Faster Still. Arthur Lydiard prescribed three kinds of aerobic running during the base phase. This one will make you faster.
- More and More Speed…: Jay Johnson suggests another way to improve type IIB fast-twitch fibers.
- Safe Margin. The fastest way to get faster: rarely run all-out.
- Which of Your Many Bodies Did You Run In Today?. Efficient training begins with carefully monitoring how we feel.
- Runner Genetics and the Inner Coach. Genome research confirms that every running body is unique. Thus training needs to be individualized. The best way is by listening to the heart.
- How to Get Into the Running “Zone.” Secret key to easy, fast running: harmonize your heart.
- Zone Training is Broken: Steve Magness on Science Versus Experience. When the “hard numbers” of science fail a runner, where can he turn? Experience and intuition hold the keys.
- How to Lose Weight. A healthy weight-loss diet that’s based on your body’s special needs.
- Arf! Arf! (Train Like a Dog). Enthusiasm is a key ingredient of any training plan.
- How to Increase Your Mileage Enjoyably. Slow down to go farther? Hm, maybe not.
- Perfect Pace. How to know how fast you can go.
- The Most Enjoyable Pace. Your own body will happily tell you exactly the pace it wants to run.
- An Experiment of One. “Scientific training” means tinkering in the lab of our own, individual bodies.
- Running in the Fasting Lane. There are two ways to get more energy. One is to give the body a complete overhaul.
- A Perfectly Reasonable Runner. Feeling-based training is an essential complement to the scientific side of running.
- Famous Runner Warms Up. A long warmup opens the door to wonderful runs.
- Training in the Age of Energy. Training is changing, from older mechanical methods to a more flowing, energy-based approach.
- Lydiard Guide Available Online. Arthur Lydiard’s training ideas are neither “outdated” or “all about long, slow distance.” They’re fundamental and timeless.
- Energy Management 101 for Runners. Arthur Lydiard discovered that training is about managing energy wisely.
- Keith Livingstone’s Wonderful Book on Arthur Lydiard’s Training Philosophy. Training is cyclical — the “ups” of racing must be followed by a fallow time of rest and recovery.
- Getting the Best out of a Layoff. The secret of thriving during illness and injury is to apply the same principles by which we train.
- Five Arguments for Aerobic Training. Arthur Lydiard pointed out that anaerobic metabolism can be optimally developed in just 4-6 weeks, but aerobic metabolism can be developed almost endlessly, over many years.
- Why Arthur Lydiard-style Aerobic Training Works So Well. Great ideas aren’t discovered; they’re invented. For the training of distance runners, Lydiard got there first.
- Should We “Train Up” or “Train Down”? The “experiment of one” needs to be conducted with all due caution.
- Civilized Training. ‘Oh what delight to, be given the right to, train like civilized ladies and men…’
- Tough Love for Injuries. Running injuries sometimes get better quicker with “active therapy.”