- Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Human Kinetics; 2 edition (Mar 14 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0880115300
- ISBN-13: 978-0880115308
- Product Dimensions: 28 x 21.5 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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#121,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Exercise & Fitness > Marathons
- #83 in Books > Sports > Other Team Sports > Track & Field
- #83 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Exercise & Fitness > Running & Jogging
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"""Better Training for Distance Runners is the complete manual for athletes, coaches, and educators. The book explains complicated issues and answers questions that lead to improved understanding of the art and science of distance running."""
Keith A. Brantly
U.S. Team Member
1996 Olympic Marathon
"""The first edition of Better Training for Distance Runners helped me make it to the 1996 Olympics and I believe this second edition can help me medal in the 2000 Olympics. The book allows runners to focus on specific events in distance running and explains the science of distance running in a manner that all distance runners can understand and use to their advantage. This really is a great book. I honestly was inspired to get out and train after each time I picked it up. I have worked with Dave Martin firsthand and everything I have learned from him is right here in this book. Dave is putting his love for distance running in the hands of the general public."""
Mark J. Coogan
U.S. Team Member
1996 Olympic Marathon
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"""Better Training for Distance Runners is the complete manual for athletes, coaches, and educators. The book explains complicated issues and answers questions that lead to improved understanding of the art and science of distance running."""
Keith A. Brantly
U.S. Team Member
1996 Olympic Marathon
"""The first edition of Better Training for Distance Runners helped me make it to the 1996 Olympics and I believe this second edition can help me medal in the 2000 Olympics. The book allows runners to focus on specific events in distance running and explains the science of distance running in a manner that all distance runners can understand and use to their advantage. This really is a great book. I honestly was inspired to get out and train after each time I picked it up. I have worked with Dave Martin firsthand and everything I have learned from him is right here in this book. Dave is putting his love for distance running in the hands of the general public."""
Mark J. Coogan
U.S. Team Member
1996 Olympic Marathon
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Book Description
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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1.0 out of 5 stars
Incomprehensible,
By A Customer
This review is from: Better Training for Distance Runners-2nd Edition (Paperback)
Gibberish disguised as science. Get Noakes' Lore of Running if you want sensible speculation based on science.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent despite its flaws,
By Connor McManus (San Antonio TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Better Training for Distance Runners-2nd Edition (Paperback)
This book is tailored toward a small group of people, namely very serious competitive runners who plan to manage a successful running career. It is not for the weekend warrior who runs to lose weight, someone trying to run their first marathon, or attention deficit high school students who get discouraged because of the vast scientific knowledge contained in this book. It is a thoroughly researched, brilliantly done, scientifically based work that is probably the most complete book on competitive running ever compiled. I especially loved the fact of the 800m race being included in the strategy section, as a serious 800/1600m athlete is often left without advice on how to run the half, one of the most challenging yet neglected distance events. If you are serious, OR if you are mainly a 800m and 1600m runner as I am, then buy this book, otherwise purchase the Daniels Running Formula, the other 'best' running book ever written.
5.0 out of 5 stars
boring,
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This review is from: Better Training for Distance Runners-2nd Edition (Paperback)
Too lengthy, too detailed. If you want to get better, run harder. It's as simple as that. And if you want specifics, get a coach. This book is not worth anyone's time in this busy world we live in.
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