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If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

Arthur Lydiard

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

Tags: distance, success, training

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

Arthur Lydiard

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

Tags: coaching, mind, running, training, will

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Arthur Leslie Lydiard (6 July 1917 – 11 December 2004) was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach. He has been lauded as one of the outstanding athletics coaches of all time and is credited with popularising the sport of running and making it commonplace across the sporting world. His training methods are based on a strong endurance base and periodisation.

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

Arthur Lydiard

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

Tags: fun, kids, running, youth

Train, don't strain.

Arthur Lydiard

Train, don't strain.

Tags: running, training