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Dr. Keith Livingstone
Nationally accomplished athlete under the tutelage of Lydiard Olympic bronze marathon medalist Barry Magee. Author of Healthy Intelligent Training—the official handbook of Lydiard Training.
Lorraine Moller and/or Colin Lancaster
The Strength Resistance Training Phase
This is the phase where we introduce several sessions a week of ‘hill exercises’, interwoven with easy aerobic training days, to re-activate the pure sprint muscle before proceeding into a few weeks where harder and faster anaerobic intensities are progressively introduced
How alactic Type IIB Fast Twitch muscle fiber types are recruited by hill exercises.
The stretch-shortening cycle and the muscle spindle reflex.
How hill exercises and the stretch-shortening cycle bypass the Size Principle of Muscle Fiber Recruitment.
How this training can safely be done year-round to maintain or improve Type IIB muscle recruitment.
What a typical week of hill Strengthening Exercises may look like.
Incorporating weight training, Circuit training, etc.
Dr. Keith Livingstone
Nationally accomplished athlete under the tutelage of Lydiard Olympic bronze marathon medalist Barry Magee. Author of Healthy Intelligent Training—the official handbook of Lydiard Training.
Lorraine Moller and/or Colin Lancaster
The Strength Resistance Training Phase
This is the phase where we introduce several sessions a week of ‘hill exercises’, interwoven with easy aerobic training days, to re-activate the pure sprint muscle before proceeding into a few weeks where harder and faster anaerobic intensities are progressively introduced
How alactic Type IIB Fast Twitch muscle fiber types are recruited by hill exercises.
The stretch-shortening cycle and the muscle spindle reflex.
How hill exercises and the stretch-shortening cycle bypass the Size Principle of Muscle Fiber Recruitment.
How this training can safely be done year-round to maintain or improve Type IIB muscle recruitment.
What a typical week of hill Strengthening Exercises may look like.
Incorporating weight training, Circuit training, etc.