Fitness Running 3rd Edition By Richard Brown

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Including personalised workouts and expert advice, Fitness Running, Third Edition, contains workouts from one of America’s most respected coaches. Whether you run for health, competition, or both, Fitness Running includes proven programs to help you achieve your goals. Colour coded and customisable, the 13- to 26-week programs cover base building, fitness, and training for short-distance 1500m events, half marathons, and marathons. Each workout is prioritised according to your goal, allowing you the flexibility to tailor the training to your schedule. More than just workouts, this new edition of the best-selling guide includes individualised testing for assessing running health and log pages for recording runs, results, and health information. It includes recommendations for female runners and the latest information on gear and gadgets, cross-training, stretching, and recovery. Discover what countless runners already have. Fitness Running is the most effective and efficient guide to the best health, times, and finishes of your life. It’s the one training book you’ll use again and again for a lifetime of running workouts. Contents Introduction Part I Before You Run Chapter 1. Running Health Assessment Chapter 2. Running Gear Chapter 3. Running Form Chapter 4. Challenge and Adaptation Chapter 5. Recovery Chapter 6. Fitness and the Female Runner Part II Plan Your Program Chapter 7. Program Setup Chapter 8. Types of Running Workouts Chapter 9. Pre- and Postworkout Routines Chapter 10. Cross-Training Chapter 11. Runner’s Diary Part III Training Schedules Chapter 12. Beginning Training Chapter 13. Fitness Training Chapter 14. Short-Race Training Chapter 15. Half-Marathon Training Chapter 16. Marathon Training Chapter 17. Postrace Recovery and Injury Training Appendixes Index About the Author Released 2015 256 Pages About The Author Richard L. Brown, PhD, is a veteran coach and exercise physiologist. He has mentored championship runners at all ages, from high school to masters, and at all levels, from novice runners to Olympic athletes and world champions. Brown has served as a personal coach to an impressive list of world-class athletes, including Shelly Steely, Suzy Favor Hamilton, Vicki Huber, and Mary Decker Slaney. He is particularly known for guiding Slaney to her double gold medals at the 1983 Helsinki World Championships. He is one of few people to have coached athletes in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games as well as the Paralympics. He has coached athletes in six recent Olympic Games and Olympic Trials.