Better Training for Distance Runners - 2nd Edition

Better Training for Distance Runners - 2nd Edition Review

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Better Training for Distance Runners provides a prescription for success for today`s competitive distance runners and their coaches. The book combines recent research, sound training principles, and proven program strategies to improve performance in events ranging from the 800-meters to the marathon.

Runners and coaches will find it easy to apply the book`s cutting-edge information about running physiology and biomechanics. They`ll receive straightforward advice for conditioning and competing in the whole range of distance events. The book also covers many popular topics in running, including how to:

• accurately assess running fitness,

• gauge training intensity,

• adjust training loads to achieve peak readiness for competition,

• determine the most effective racing strategy for each event, and

• stay healthy throughout a running career.

Authors Dr. David Martin and Peter Coe are the perfect team for translating lab findings to the road and running track. As one of the world`s foremost researchers on running, Martin regularly tests elite runners to identify their best strategies for staying healthy and improving fitness. Peter Coe, father and coach of 800- and 1000-meter world record holder Sebastian Coe, has long been regarded as a master of devising training plans that allow athletes to reach peak fitness when it counts most. Together, Martin and Coe present the most comprehensive and useful resource on the art and science of distance running—the formula that has produced many national championship, Olympic medal, and world record performances.

Better Training for Distance Runners builds upon the success of the first edition by providing loads of new information, such as the effects of altitude training and glycerin loading, the health problems experienced by women runners who may be too thin, and the best strategies for running road races and the steeplechase. It`s an essential guide and a great read for serious distance runners and coaches who desire to excel in future seasons and events.

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Oct 01, 2011 20:58:35

Better Coaching: Advanced Coach's Manual - 2nd Edition

Better Coaching: Advanced Coach's Manual - 2nd Edition Review

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Better Coaching provides updated information on the sport sciences, including anatomy, physiology, psychology, biomechanics, and skill acquisition, which are vital for coaches in a range of sports. It features practical guidelines to develop athletes' endurance, speed, strength, power, and flexibility, and also uses of a range of case studies, examples and anecdotes to de-mystify some of the more technical sports science information. Coaching tips at the end of each chapter summarize key messages from each chapter.

This edition also has a greater emphasis on the management, planning and interpersonal skills required of the modern coach. New chapters on risk management, resource management, and coaching methods are important additions to this manual, and emphasize the broad role of the coach in sport. Excellent new chapters include ‘Working with Teams', and ‘Adopting a Balanced Approach to Coaching'.

The welfare of the athlete is another important theme emphasized in Better Coaching. The opening chapter, ‘The Role of the Coach', sets the scene for an athlete-focused approach to coaching. In addition, the chapters on ‘Coaching Athletes as Individuals', ‘Sports Nutrition', and ‘Medical Considerations in Sport' provide information and examples on how best to assist their athletes with the range of issues they may face.

Better Coaching combines the application of training principles and methods with the people skills required to succeed as a coach. The text encourages a balanced approach to training, recovery, competition and life, and illustrates how best to enhance fitness, technique, mental skills and nutrition to minimize injury and illness. In addition, contemporary-coaching issues, such as legal, ethical and behavioral issues, drugs in sport, and information technology developments are addressed.

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Sep 30, 2011 16:44:50

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Running, 3rd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Running, 3rd Edition Review

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The perfect book to get readers up and running-by a major name in marathons.

The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Running, Third Edition, offers instruction on developing ideal running techniques for personal fitness or competition. Through easy-to-follow steps designed to gradually build their abilities, readers learn how to choose reliable running gear and create an effective training and running program.

•Features expert tips on nutrition, reducing stress with exercise, avoiding and treating injuries, and entering 5K, 10K, and half and full marathons

•Provides basic training plans and illustrations of stretching positions, muscle diagrams, running apparel, and more

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Sep 26, 2011 11:07:05

Active Wellness (rev. edition): Feel Good for Life (Avery Health Guides)

Active Wellness (rev. edition): Feel Good for Life (Avery Health Guides) Review

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Enlightened by the author's own story of recovery from cancer, here is a unique lifestyle philosophy and a practical guide to feeling your best for a lifetime.

Active Wellness encompasses every facet of choosing- and, more important, staying with-a healthy lifestyle. From mental preparation to changing old habits; from creating personal eating and fitness plans to recognizing and managing stress; from dealing with the threat of self-sabotage to celebrating the thrill of success, this is a unique, full-spectrum program that has been proven effective, showing that healthy living is easy when it is satisfying to your body, mind, and spirit.

A comprehensive health plan with a strong weight-management component, the Active Wellness program has been adopted by tens of thousands of individuals, groups, and corporations across the country. Now in this revised, updated, and completely repackaged paperback edition, Active Wellness confirms Gayle Reichler as "America's Wellness Coach."

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Jul 26, 2011 09:33:53

Aquatic Exercise - Second Edition

Aquatic Exercise - Second Edition Review

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Aquatic Exercise is a user-friendly reference book that includes all the information needed to begin a safe, effective, successful aquatic program. Written by Ruth Sova, aquatic exercise pioneer, this book contains up-to-date information, including eight actual workouts with photographs and descriptions of the moves.

Aquatic Exercise is geared toward the beginning instructor, the student in the club or private class, or the college student taking the class for a physical education elective. Aquatic heart rates, aquatic exercise moves, and muscles are reviewed in lay terms. Water programs for walking, aerobics, jogging, toning, strength training, flexibility training, sport specific, circuit training, interval training, deep water training, plyometrics, and relaxation are all covered.

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Jul 18, 2011 20:16:05