(Part 2) Best team sports guides according to redditors
We found 32 Reddit comments discussing the best team sports guides. We ranked the 24 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Rhythm and Swing - Sir Richard Hadlee
Complete Conditioning for Rugby
There are many wonderful old stories that get ignored today because publishers haven't updated the cover art and illustrations. Even the latest Roald Dahl and Beverly Cleary books have covers only parents could love. So, read these old stories to your kids now because they're not likely to pick them up at the library, and probably won't even see them at a Scholastic book fair.
There are books kids choose, and books parents choose for kids. Except for Harry Potter, I'd stick to the older classics for bedtime reading.
>but I think they may not necessarily be best for your normal runner, but I could very easily be wrong.
Well the elite runners he trained were not elite before they started training with him. Their best times before training with Lydiard would be nothing special even today.
According to this site anyway.
>Long View
>Lydiard says it takes 3-5 consecutive years of his program to reach your full potential assuming you are physically mature (18 or older) and you start before age 35. Lydiard says that the biggest gains happen in the 3rd or 4th years and that you will be shocked by what you are capable of if you follow his plan. You don't have to wait till you are in your late 20s as American coaches will tell you, or wait for anything else. You don't have to take years to build up to 100 miles per week. According to Lydiard, an out of shape desk worker who has never done anything physical his whole life can run 100 miles per week in 9 weeks as long as he has no pre-existing heart condition.
>Murray Halberg
>Age 18 before Lydiard 4:41 mile, 10:22 2 mile
>first year age 19 4:17 mile 9:37 2 mile
>2nd year age 20 4:04 mile 9:09 2 mile
>3rd year age 21 8:55 2 mile
>4th year age 22 4:01 mile 8:51 2 mile
>eventually he got down to 3:57.5 and 8:30 WR for 2 mile and was Olympic Champion in the 5000. He accomplished all this despite having a withered arm.
>Peter Snell
>Age 19 before Lydiard 1:54 800 and 4:48 mile
>first year age 20 1:48.7 800 and 4:10 mile
>2nd year age 21 1:44.1 relay 800 and 4:01.5 mile
>3rd year age 22 Olympic 800 champion
>4th year age 23 1:43eq 800 and 3:54 mile
>Barry Magee
>According to Lydiard could never in his career run faster than 58 in a 440.
>age 18 before Lydiard 4:50 mile and 11:00 2 mile
>age 19 first year 9:50 2 mile
>eventually Magee got down to 8:45 2 mile, 13:38 5000, 28:50 10000 and 4:07 in the mile. Amazing for a guy who couldn't run faster than 58 for a quarter. He was ranked # 1 in the World in the 10000 and # 2 in the 5000 by Track & Field News. Also won bronze in the Olympic marathon.
So it's not like Lydiard searched for and trained the best athletes in New Zealand, he trained some kids who happened to live near him and turned them into Olympic medalists.
"Champions are everywhere. All you need is to train them properly." was one of Lydiard's famous quotes.
>so all because he did not coach Olympic medalists does not mean that his ideas are any less effective
What other elite athletes have used his training ideas and found success with them. If they were truly great ideas they would become the standard that other elites would follow.
>You can't judge this book from the description but you also failed to see that it has a 6 week training plan as well as "Thrive Fitness explains how to gain maximum results in minimal time."
No I read that and laughed. Science of Running has a good article on how to spot bad ideas, such as gain maximum results in minimal time.
>3 Exploit people’s goals- Give them a magic bullet
>Make big promises that people can reach those goals that always seem out of reach. Guarantee them that they can and the only reason they haven’t before is because they were given the wrong workouts/information.
>4 Tell us what we want to hear- It’s easy.
>They’ll give people a shortcut. No need to run 80+mpw for an ultramarathon, just do 400’s! This is a common tactic in those wonderful infomercials or diets. Why did Atkins take off in popularity (before plummeting)? Because it was much more appealing to eat all the steak, fat, etc. you wanted than to eat a bunch of fruits/vegetables and the like.
This is exactly what that book sounds like.
>He was a triathlete training 8-10 hours a day, but with changes he describes in the book, increased his performance while training only 4 hours a day by doing things differently, some of it being running LESS.
Training for a triathlon is different than training for a running only race. You need to split training time up between 3 events. So of course spending less time running and focusing on the other events would help in a triathlon.
>You take so many of my phrases out of context, but yes you can. That doesn't mean you can't build an even greater aerobic base by running every day, but you can build a better aerobic base through running programs only running 4-5 times a week instead of 7. It just depends how you train and what you are doing on the days you run.
No I didn't take it out of context, you wrote
>I still think you can build a stronger aerobic base by running more than 3 miles at a time and running fewer days.
I responded saying that yes you can build a stronger base by running more than 3 miles at a time(as I have been saying the whole time) and I said no to running fewer days. Of course it depends on how you train but someone following a smart training program running 7 days a week will build a better base than someone running 4-5 days. The reason for running so much is the physical adaptations that happen when you run high mileage.
From the book Running Your Best by Ron Daws.
>Another reason the world-class can run so far at fast speed is because as long as the pace remains aerobic, the muscles are able to break down and release fat from the fat cells and oxidize it as a fuel.
>Fat is the main, but not exclusive, fuel during sub-maximal work. But when your muscles metabolize mainly fat, there's a greater demand for oxygen than when burning glycogen, so you either have to take in more air or slow down. Fat is not a preferred fuel at fast paces. In races shorter than 10km, runners burn glycogen almost exclusively. When a marathoner efficiently burns fat, that means he or she conserves glycogen, which will be there to be burned with devastating effect on the competition during the last 10km. David Costill found that the gastrocnemius(calf) muscle becomes seven times more capable of burning fat after marathon training (prolonged endurance runs) than normally occurs in untrained muscle. He concludes, "Thus we have evidence to substantiate why it is essential for the endurance runner to perform extremely long runs in training, and to log 80 to 120 miles per week." Furthermore, West German physiologists at Cologne University found that if muscle groups are exercised continually for long periods, especially two or more hours, dormant capillary beds are reactivated and new one are formed. This means more blood flow, more oxygen to the muscles. That raises one's VO2 max, which in turn, makes it easier for the muscles to burn fat.
To fully develop these physical adaptations it takes years of running and only running 4 days a week will make it take longer for them to develop. If you spend a year running every day that is about 365 days of running versus only about 208 running 4 days a week, that is a difference of a little over 5 months of training time.
>So many of my answers have been in response to this...yes I think you should increase distance, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can't work on speed at the same time, just as you said, he needs to be safe about it, which is why I say not to run every day. If he is going to work on speed which I think he would be safe to do, those hard days should be followed by a rest day so his body has time to acclimate and recover.
If by speed training you mean anaerobic training then that is not speed training.
As Lydiard wrote:
>"Repetitions or interval training can improve your speed to a certain degree simply because of anaerobic development and improved mechanics. This gives the false idea that you are actually improving speed.
>The actual fact is repetitions or intervals are used for anaerobic development. You are creating huge oxygen debt to develop a buffer against this type of fatigue. Problem is that when you do that, you invariably tighten up. You can not develop fine speed when you tighten up. The best way to develop speed is to use some of the American sprint drills."
If you don't mean anaerobic training then you can add some speed training during your aerobic phase. Speed training being drills such as the ones mentioned in this post, A-skip and B-skip and of course high knees and butt kickers will help too. You can also do short hill sprints lasting about 8 seconds each to help develop speed a few times a week, just make sure to give yourself full recovery between each rep. They don't have to be up hills but they are more effective if they are. It is best to do them when you are well rested.
Also it is not a good idea to increase distance and add in anaerobic training at the same time.
As I wrote earlier from Health Intelligent Training about doing hard anaerobic workouts.
>More recovery time is required that could otherwise have been spent doing productive aerobic training, without such "down time." Even mild acidosis has been shown to disrupt the body's aerobic and anaerobic energy systems, the nervous system, and the function of cells. Training too intensely is like playing with fire. Aerobic training is safe and predictable. There is certainly a place for more intense work, later, when the time is right.
So it is much safer and smarter to stay away from anaerobic training(what you seem to be calling speed training) until you are ready.