Get ready to run the race of your life Marathons in the U.S. have seen record increases in participation during the past few years. Running a Marathon For Dummies helps aspiring marathon runners prepare to successfully complete their first race, and shows experienced runners how to take their game to the next level. Running a Marathon For Dummies gives you exercises, programs, and tips to improve your running stamina, speed, and overall health. It takes you from sitting on the couch through running your first 26.2 mile marathon―and beyond. For seasoned runners, Running a Marathon For Dummies offers tips and advice for how to continue improving performance through drills, exercises, and other techniques. <ul>
<li>Provides a timed training promise for runners of all skill levels, from non-runners, first marathoners, and mid-race runners to more experienced runners</li> <li>Includes information on how running increases heart strength, keeps illnesses away, keeps arteries clear, and improves a person's mood</li> <li>Gives you drills, exercises, and techniques to improve your endurance</li> </ul>
Whether you're a couch potato or a regularly hit the asphalt, Running a Marathon For Dummies gives you everything you need to run the race of your life.

Running a Marathon For Dummies

Sports & Outdoors

Jason R. Karp

Individual Sports

For Dummies

As best-selling author John Gray pointed out, men are from Mars and women are from Venus. 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.

Running for Women

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Smith, Carolyn

Women's Health

Human Kinetics

101 Developmental Concepts &amp; Workouts for Cross Country Runners provides sound training advice for runners of all levels. Divided into two parts; Part 1 presents 30 training concepts to help guide the cross country runner and coach. These concepts lay the groundwork for the 71 workouts included in Part 2, which include variations and coaching points where appropriate. In this book, Dr. Karp has done a fantastic job of connecting the research with the practical application for cross country runners, explaining the basics of the science of distance running in a language that everyone can understand.

101 Developmental Concepts & Workouts for Cross Country Runners

Other Team Sports

Coaches Choice

101 Winning Racing Strategies for Runners answers all the key questions coaches and runners might have about how athletes can run smarter, faster races. This insightful collection of pre-race, during race, training, and mental strategies presents practical, comprehensive, and straightforward advice for achieving racing success for every level of runner, recreational to professional. in addition to the physical aspects of training, the book addresses the mind/body aspects of training and competing that are so vital to distance running success.

101 Winning Racing Strategies for Runners

Track & Field Omnibook, 6th Edition, a revival of the prominent coaches manual first published in 1971, is a complete historical guide to track and field technique and training, Every track and field event from hurdles to high jump and distance running to decathlon is covered in depth, and includes the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches and styles, the training prescriptions, workouts, and writings of prominent coaches, and hundreds of drawings and photos to illustrate technique in the sprints, hurdles, and field events.\nRacing on foot is the oldest and most universal of all sports. In ancient Greece, commonly regarded as the birthplace of competitive sport, running was a highly regarded physical trait. Since the ancient Greek races run in a 230-meter by 30-meter rectangular space, track and field has come a long way. It is one of the largest attractions at the Olympic Games. More high school students participate in track and field than in any other sport, which leaves a lot of work for coaches to manage it all.\nFrom trainer to administrator, recruiter of talent to executor of policy, and motivator to confidante, the track and field coach plays many roles. At one extreme, there is the coach who is most concerned with people and interpersonal relationships, with little concern for winning. This coach wants to get along with the athletes as they are, rather than pushing them toward what they can become. At the other extreme, there is the coach who is most concerned with winning and its rewards, with little concern for athletes as individuals. This coach is most interested in training, techniques, and performance, and is an exacting taskmaster to accomplish those things. The best coaches are a product of both extremes an individual who is both an expert in the training and techniques, with a deep desire to win, and in human relations, with a genuine concern for the athletes. Track & Field Omnibook brings both extremes together to create the whole coaching picture.\nWhen the first edition of Track & Field Omnibook was published in 1971, it was ahead of its time. In the present day of specialization and niche books, reviving Track & Field Omnibook with a sixth edition proves that this book has stood the test of time. This latest edition, edited and updated by exercise physiologist, coach, and author, Jason Karp, PhD, reaffirms Track & Field Omnibook s position as the best and most comprehensive textbook in the sport and an invaluable reference for veteran and beginning coaches alike.

Track & Field Omnibook

Coaching

Lose Weight and Keep It LostDon't rely on your neighbor's latest gym stories or diet fad. Learn exactly what has worked for thousands of others trying to lose and maintain a healthy weight, just like you. Take advantage of the proven weight-loss and maintenance strategies of thousands of people. Despite the overflowing bookshelves of weight loss tips and diet books, the U.S. remains the most overweight country in the world and continues to get more overweight every year. Most people who work towards successful fat loss just gain weight back a few weeks later. Frankly, many of us are just always hungry. So what is unique about those who succeed? The answer is buried deep in the archives at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center in Providence, Rhode Island: The National Weight Control Registry, the largest study of individuals successful at long-term maintenance of weight loss. Learn how to make the life changes you need, one step at a time. The National Weight Control Registry can seem overwhelming. It includes data from more than 10,000 individuals about their weight, diet and exercise habits, and strategies for weight loss maintenance. This is where Jason Karp comes in. Dr. Karp is a USA Track & Field nationally certified coach, the founder of the REVO2LUTION RUNNING(tm) certification program for coaches and fitness professionals worldwide, and a medical doctor who has devoted his life to helping people get healthier and stay healthy. In Lose It Forever, he has boiled down all this data into actionable tips and strategies you can implement into your everyday life. Learn maintainable ways to: * Monitor your macronutrients * Exercise (a lot!) daily * Control your calorie intake with diets that work * Get down to a healthy weight - and stay thereReaders of motivational books for weight loss like Mini Habits for Weight Loss, Why We Get Fat, and Good Calories, Bad Calories will learn how to maintain their ideal weight with Lose It Forever .

Lose It Forever: The 6 Habits of Successful Weight Losers from the National Weight Control Registry (Weight Loss Diet Self-help)

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