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International Running Academy was created with its mission being: "Preserve, archive, present and educate about global distance running."
The training method developed by my personal mentor and friend, New Zealand's legendary athletic coach, Arthur Lydiard, has been the Gold Standard of endurance training over the past half century around the world. Physiologically correct training principles can be successfully applied to, as Arthur Lydiard himself used to say, a 4-minute-miler to a 4-hour marathon runner; a 60-year-old man to a 16-year-old girl. All you need is to apply the Principles correctly to the individual and the situation; which we provide through various programs.
I myself have served as a professional corporate running team coach in Japan, and I have been fortunate to have known and personally acquainted with some of the legendary athletic coaches around the globe--Bill Bowerman, Bill Squires, and Kiyoshi Nakamura and Yoshio Koide of Japan among many others.
With International Running Academy, we bring you the essence of what I have learnt from these coaches and provide their training techniques in a up-to-date and easy-to-understand format. Running Wizard is the only legitimate on-line training program that simulates a training method developed by famed New Zealand athletic coach, Arthur Lydiard, which I had learnt directly when I worked with Arthur Lydiard. we offer a monthly newsletter for announcement; and we will share various articles and interviews (with footnotes) and video clips, interview recordings with Arthur Lydiard himself as well as legendary Kiwi athletes fondly known as "Arthur's Boys". -- Nobuya "Nobby" Hashizume
"If you get out and run even for 15-minutes, you are winning."
Champions are everywhere; all you need is to train them properly.
Train, don't strain.
If you want to run fast on the track, start running slow on the road and country.
If you get out and run even for 15-minutes, you are winning.
When you run, you should feel you could have run a little faster or a little longer if you wanted to at the end.
You cannot tell your true potential until you train systematically and intelligently over several years.
You can never run too slowly.
Nothing pleases me more than watching parents and children running together.
It is not the distance that stops you; but speed; if you start out too fast, you'll have to slow down or stop.
It is not the best athlete who wins; but the best prepared.
When you write down hypothetical figures (for interval workout), it's not even worth the paper it's written on.
We all know our own limitations; if we keep within our limitations, we'll keep on improving.
If you ask your coach WHY you are doing this workout, and if he/she can't answer that question, find another coach.
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.
There is no short-cut to the top!