Healthy Intelligent Training: The Proven Principles of Arthur Lydiard

by Keith Livingstone and Keith Livingston

Keith Livingston here provides readers with an easy-to-follow guide to the principles and training techniques that Arthur Lydiard used to guide numerous athletes from across the world to Olympic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841262471
• ISBN13: 9781841262475
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Healthy Intelligent Training - simply awesome!

http://www.flotrack.org/articles/view/767-keith-livingstone-healthy-intelligent-training Healthy Intelligent Training by Keith Livingstone is simply awesome. As far as I am concerned, it is the best book written about the Lydiard method of training. Healthy Intelligent Training is written 'layman' enough for those who do not want to be weighed down with heavy scientific tech-speak. However, the book provides enough scientific reference to provide credibility from the technical end of the perspective; the reader gets the best of both worlds. Should you prefer case studies that are not done in a lab over 3 weeks under controlled circumstances, but examples provided from 10, 20 and 30 year careers - Olympic accomplishments and just outstanding results, then Keith writes it out so everyone gets their fill of what they need to better understand the Arthur Lydiard method of training and physiologically speaking the method matches what the body is meant to do - move! Although the book is said to be geared towards serious middle-distance runners. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to train to their optimum for middle and long distance, right up to the marathon.

The only book a serious runner will ever need

This is a must have for any distance runner looking for the best way to train. While following Arthur Lydiard's principles, I have already taken my marathon time down from 3 hours in 2006 to a 2:31 this past year. Not to mention, every other personal record that I held. Livingstone makes everything clear and simple.

An Outstanding .. How To Do It Text!

Having started my professional career as a physical education teacher being responsible for training track athletes in high schools in Australia, England and South Africa, I definitely could have used Keith Livingstone's amazing book. Outstanding athletes need a well directed program of training that will get them to the top. During my days of teaching and coaching in the 1960's and 1970's, New Zealand athletes were the trend setters. Moving from training athletes to caring for athletes, after retraining as a Chiropractor in Canada in the mid 1970's, I now see how knowledge of what Keith Livingstone explains in his book would have made me a better Chiropractor for the athletes I cared for. If you teach or coach athletes or you are a practitioner who cares for athletes I highly recommend you purchase this book. John Hinwood, DC, Dip PE, Cert LC, FAIM, FICC, FACC Past President The Australian Spinal Research Foundation

Best book ever on the Lydiard system

Simply the best book ever on the training system that has probably transformed more runners into champions than any other. I got a copy of Running the Lydiard Way in 1978 and it went everywhere with me, 24 hours a day for at least two years, while Arthur's way changed me from an average club hack into a county-class runner. I don't know where Keith Livingstone's book is going to take me, but I've already started carrying it around. Finally, 30 years on, we get an update and a full explanation of what the Lydiard system really is and how it works. Very exciting! Even better, Keith writes as a New Zealander born and bred right there in Lydiard land, being himself coached by Olympic medallist Barry Magee, one of Arthur's originals. So here is the true word on Lydiard, direct from original sources. It's become fashionable to bash Lydiard these days; many of us who had direct contact with the "master coach" have tried and failed to correct the complete tosh that is often claimed as being "Lydiard training" - the most common myth being that he advocated a minimum of 100 miles a week at barely above jogging pace. Here at last is chapter and verse on EXACTLY what Arthur intended, with plenty of real-life examples of how Arthur and his runners adapted the basic system to individualise it for runners of different capabilities. You'll see, for example, how to use sessions of long slow distance therapeutically, to help recover form. Keith has also done a great job of providing the missing science; although Arthur has been hailed as the greatest running coach of all time, Keith reminds us that Arthur was actually a milkman; he worked things out by experimenting on himself and then with trial and error plus intuition. 30 years on, and with the benefit of the latest research, we can see why Arthur's system works so well -- and also what we need to tweak to make it even more effective. To that end, Keith brings in the research of Dr Jack Daniels on Vo2 and "V dot" pacing that clarifies what some of Arthur's sessions were out to achieve; he incorporates the "mass-specific" model of strength training developed by Barry Ross; and he includes contributions from Nick Bideau, coach of Craig Mottram, and NZ triathlon coach Chris Pilone, who guided Hamish Carter to 2004 Olympic gold. A brilliant book, endorsed by Barry Magee and marathon great Lorraine Moller, co-founder of The Lydiard Foundation -- this is a must-have.

Fantastic book for aspiring runners.

This book is a must for everyone who is a runner or who wants to be a runner. Keith's way of putting things in a simple no nonsense,from experience way is very refreshing and makes for a "can't put down read". I finished it at 4.00am and felt like going for a run. Five stars is not enough!