There's a story told about Arthur Lydiard and his golden boys at the '64 Olympics in Tokyo. Down at the training track, with their rivals looking on, they ran an impressive interval session of 20 ...

What is Arthur Lydiard’s place in history? He has been called the "best all-time running coach" (Runner’s World); the teacher whose "ideas form the basis of every successful training book during the ...

In order to achieve optimum performance, running requires physical and mental strength. Arthur Lydiard designed a training system to develop both. Lydiard discovered that by individualizing a periodic ...

Arthur Lydiard, a top New Zealand track coach in the 1950s and ‘60s whose methods revolutionized training for distance runners and helped fuel the worldwide boom in jogging, has died. He was 87.

Arthur Lydiard, athletics coach: born Auckland, New Zealand 6 July 1917; three times married; died Houston, Texas 11 December 2004. Arthur Lydiard, athletics coach: born Auckland, New Zealand 6 July ...