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9781905096046: Marathon Training: for Your Personal Best

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This comprehensive marathon-training workbook carries advice-packed articles such as these: Muscle training - contrary to popular belief, your performance will slide if you ignore your fast-twitch fibres Warm-ups - why so many athletes waste their time with stretching routines when what' s needed are sport-specific drills? Hydration- how fluid loss reduces performance. How to beat it with the aid of glycerol Recovery - a detailed, tried and tested training schedule for the non-specialist prepared by the ultimate runners' guru Tim Noakes, whose massive tome Lore of Running is accorded near-biblical status by most serious athletes Whatever your experience, if you intend to do well in a marathon you' ll need a training plan that will suit you. Here is the book' s complete contents list: Six-month training program: a comprehensive schedule for the non-specialist, tested in the lab and on the roads Beginner to elite performer: how a former couch potato applied training science to compete at the Commonwealth games Endurance training: the vital contribution of fast-twitch muscle fibres Warm-ups: why stretching doesn' t work. A new-style dynamic, sport-specific routine for runners Recovery: how to make recovery an integral part of your training success Hydration: could glycerol be the secret ingredient for hydration? Running risks: lies, damned lies and statistics: the truth about the incidence of injury, illness and death in marathon running Performance standards: the inexorable decline in Northern European endurance running

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Marathon training became a science. I believe in the plan and I knew it would make me a better runner. It eventually changed me into an international athlete. --Wilson Taylor, Novice Marathon Runner

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