| Lori Jensen | 7 reviews averaging a rating of 4.6 |
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Make yourself a smarter runner! This is truly a terrific book for for beginning fitness runners and seasoned competitive runners alike.The book will help you understand the anatomy of the running body but it will also arm you with exercises and techniques to enhance your running. You get both in one book!
You get lots of great illustrations and details. When a strengthening exercise is given, you get drawings illustrating the exercises and drawings highlighting the muscles used in running, making the connection between the exercise and running very clear. I found this was helpful and motivating as well.
I could have done without chapter one, titled "The evolution of the human runner," lately it seems the majority of books about running seem to feel obligated to include a similar section or chapter and they all seem redundant to me.
That said, let me move on to the highlights. Here are a few of the topics you can expect to read about: VO2 max training and training progressi...
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| | Jaakko Hiekkaranta | 6 reviews averaging a rating of 4.2 |
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This nutritional guide by Ben Greenfield is very easy to read and to understand. This book contains very good explanations on how different types of fueling affect our bodies. Also added are several daily meal examples for different training phases (base/build, taper/race, off-season/rest...). If you are an athlete (or non-athlete) looking to improve your helath, energy, performance or appearance reading this book is a good way to start on the good nutritional path.
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| | Stacey Cummings | 4 reviews averaging a rating of 4.8 |
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I recently purchased this book to look for a different method of run training to mix my training up a bit this year. I read the overview of the book and was interested in seeing what the book had to offer. It is a pace-based running program based on a recent 5k running result and has only three days of running per week and cross-training on the non-running days. The paces are a bit faster than previous pace-based programs that I have read, so the runs were difficult at first. Many of the pages are filled with success stories and letters from runners that have followed the program and completed races with PRs after following the program. So, if you like to read case studies and get runners' perspectives, you will enjoy the format of the book. I did find myself skipping past some of the stories to get to the "meat" of the program. The book may be a good program to follow for those athletes that have a tendency to get injured on running back-to-back days or high mileage weeks....
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