The Lydiard Training Method
Running Wizard builds a personalized training schedule from your recent race and your goal date — every week phased, paced, and yours to adjust.
Free to build. No credit card. About two minutes.
Most runners train like squirrels — random miles, random days, hoping something sticks. It doesn't.
Every Running Wizard plan runs on phasing: the sequential development of your energy systems, in the right order, at the right time. Arthur Lydiard, the most influential endurance coach of the modern era, proved it decades ago, and no one has built a more reliable path to peak performance since.
You haven't hit your ceiling. You've just never trained toward it. That changes now.
Your most recent race, your goal race, and the date you want to be ready.
Aerobic base, hills, anaerobic, coordination, taper — sequenced so each phase is built on the one before it.
Log sessions, watch your pace line move, and reshape the weeks as your fitness changes. Your plan follows you to any device.
Lydiard coached a handful of runners from one Auckland suburb onto Olympic podiums, and his system has been carried forward ever since.
“For both champions and joggers alike, no other training system comes close for enduring excellence and excellent endurance. Speed included!”
— Dr. Richard Brown, Author of Lydiard Online Training Formulas
Dr. Richard L. “Dick” Brown was a pioneering American exercise physiologist, coach, and longtime advocate of Arthur Lydiard’s training principles. A key figure in the transition of U.S. distance running toward professional standards, Brown served as exercise physiologist and later director for Athletics West, the groundbreaking Nike-sponsored club in Eugene, Oregon, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. There, he successfully implemented Lydiard’s aerobic base, periodization, and feeling-based methods with America’s top talent, helping shape the careers of elite athletes including Mary Decker Slaney (multiple world champion and Olympic medalist), Marla Runyan, and many others.
Brown’s deep understanding of exercise physiology, combined with Lydiard’s proven empirical approach, produced practical, individualized training formulas grounded in science and real-world results. These formulas—refined through decades of coaching and physiological research—form the foundation of the Lydiard Foundation’s Running Wizard online training program. The Wizard generates personalized plans that honor Lydiard’s core principles (aerobic development, sequential energy system training, recovery, and peak performance timing) while incorporating Brown’s data-driven insights for safe, effective progression across all levels of runners.
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Enter your last race and the date you want to be ready. Running Wizard does the rest.
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