Running For Women By Jason Karp, Carolyn Smith

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Running for Women provides comprehensive information on training female runners based on their cardiovascular, hormonal, metabolic, muscular, and anatomical characteristics. Women will learn to maximize workouts around the menstrual cycle and to guard against common injuries, disordered eating, osteoporosis, and menstrual irregularities. There are obvious differences between women and men in anatomy, physiology, hormones, and metabolism. So why do most running books take a one-size-fits-all approach to training? Finally, here’s one that doesn’t. Running for Women provides comprehensive information on training female runners based on their cardiovascular, hormonal, metabolic, muscular, and anatomical characteristics. In this authoritative guide, authors Jason Karp and Carolyn Smith answer the questions and tackle the topics women need to know: - The impact of the menstrual cycle on hydration, body temperature, metabolism, and muscle function - The most effective workouts for endurance, speed and strength, lactate threshold, and VO2max - How and when to train during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause - Preventing knee injuries, stress fractures, and other common running-related injuries - Avoiding the risks of the female athlete triad—disordered eating, osteoporosis, and menstrual irregularities - How to use sex differences to your advantage Based on the latest research on estrogen, metabolism, and other sex-specific performance factors, Running for Women will change the way you fuel, train, and compete. If you are serious about running, this is one guide you must own. Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Part I Physiology Chapter 1 Performance Factors and Sex Differences Chapter 2 Menstrual Cycle, Hormones, and Performance Chapter 3 Pregnancy Chapter 4 Menopause Chapter 5 Older Runners Part II Training Chapter 6 Training Components Chapter 7 Base Building Chapter 8 Acidosis (Lactate) Threshold Training Chapter 9 Aerobic Power Training for VO2max Chapter 10 Speed and Strength Training Chapter 11 Building Your Training Program Part III Health and Wellness Chapter 12 Female Athlete Triad Chapter 13 Injuries and Female Runners Chapter 14 Performance Nutrition and Female Runners Appendix: Evolution of Women’s Competitive Running Released 2012 232 Pages About The Authors Jason Karp, PhD, is an exercise physiologist, a running and fitness expert, and the 2011 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year. He offers science-based coaching to runners of all levels and consulting to coaches through his company, RunCoachJason. Karp is also a prolific writer, with four books and more than 200 articles published in magazines, including Runner’s World, Running Times, Shape, Oxygen, Self, and Ultra-Fit. Karp has enjoyed success coaching at high school, college, and club levels. He has taught USA Track & Field’s highest level of coaching certification and was an instructor at the USATF/U.S. Olympic Committee’s Emerging Elite Coaches Camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. Carolyn Smith, MD, is a family practice and sports medicine physician who serves as director of the student health service at Marquette University and head medical team physician for the department of intercollegiate athletics. She also maintains her teaching interests in her role as medical director for the athletic training education program. Smith is a versatile runner with a career that has spanned more than three decades. After a postcollegiate career running shorter distances, Smith embraced ultrarunning in 2002 and has enjoyed success in distances ranging from the 50-mile run to the 24-hour run. She is a former 24-hour and 100K national champion. She has had the privilege of representing the United States on two 24-hour national teams (2005, 2007) and is a 100K national team member (2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).