Staying Healthy by Running Easily
Running Easy Many athletes train too hard for optimal results. They run their longer runs just a little bit too fast, burning up glycogen stores and wondering why they get tired, sore, and injured, and wondering why they can’t shake minor upper respiratory tract...Heart Rate Training
To work out your training intensities, I believe that the Karvonen method is the best. It relies on your own maximal heart rate and lowest resting heart rate to define intensities. This is all outlined in my book, Healthy Intelligent Training, however we’ll go over...Endurance Training Explained: Part 1
Somewhere I said that if an idea wasn’t simple enough to be written down on a matchbox, then it was probably too complicated to get across. So, on that premise, my ‘matchbox’ contribution is that the total volume of low-intensity aerobic base training completed before...The Lydiard System Training Pyramid
For the purposes of my book and my lecture series, I’ve described Arthur Lydiard’s work as progressively moving up and down a pyramid of training intensities and levels, until the hardest and most intense work is done before the most important competition. This...
Dr Livingstone has just released his account of his survival: Staring Down the Beast-How I Enjoyed Myself Well from a Terminal Brain Tumour Death Sentence