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Runner's World Guide to Cross-Training
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| Vendor: Rodale Publishing |
| Brand: Rodale Publishing |
| Price: $14.95 |
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Description: If you want to enjoy a long, successful life of running, it's essential to incorporate non-running activities into your training program. In Runner's World Guide to Cross-Training, Matt Fitzgerald - seasoned runner, triathete, sports and fitness journalist, and online coach to runners and triathletes - tells you everything you need to know about the very best cross-training exercises for runners, from the equipment you?ll have to buy to the techniques you'll have to master.
• • • Strength exercises will keep your muscles in balance. Flexibility exercises will keep them supple. An alternative endurance activities will help heal existing injuries while preventing future ones. Fitzgerald recommends the six best non-impact cardiovascular activities for runners: pool running, elliptical training, bicycling, inline skating, swimming, and cross-country skiing. The book shows how to integrate running and cross-training, and features five complete programs that will train you for a basic 10-K, advanced 10-K, half marathon, basic marathon, advanced marathon, and triathlon. • • • With the imprimatur of Runner?s World magazine - the most authoritative source of information on the sport - this excellent guide will be welcomed by runners of every level. • • • THE AUTHOR: Matt Fitzgerald is a runner, triathlete, and coach. A former editor and current contributer for Triathlete magazine, he writes articles for national publications such as Men's Health, Outside, Maxim, Fitness Runner, and the Runner's World Web site; and serves as managing editor of the sports nutrition Web site Powering Muscles. Paperback. 256 pages. |
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