Arthur Lydiard
Arthur Lydiard
Arthur Leslie Lydiard ONZ OBEwas 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 popularizing the sport of running and making it commonplace across the sporting world. His training methods are based on a strong endurance base and periodisation...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth6 July 1917
running athlete winning
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.
discipline understanding matter
It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
running pain distance
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.
mean faces language
They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.