Track Field category: 203 books
Running Free of Injuries
From Pain to Personal Best
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The ultimate pain-to-personal-best guide to running injuries, covering prevention, detection and rehabilitation.
Runners suffer from the highest injury rates of all recreational athletes. Whether you are a novice or elite-level runner, guide yourself through a step-by-step process of avoiding...
RUN
The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Most serious runners don't realize their potential. They simply stop getting faster and don't understand why. The reason is simple: most runners are unable to run by feel. The best elite runners have learned that the key to faster running is to hear what their bodies are telling them.
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by Editors of Inside Triathlon magazine
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Triathlete's Guide to Peak Performance is the ultimate resource for every multisport athlete striving to break through to the next level on the race course. It is a compilation of hard-won knowledge shared by the sport's greatest coaches and champions from the pages of Inside Triathlon magazine....
by Joe G. Friel, Jim S. Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Leave ’em in your wake, leave ’em in your trail, leave ’em in your dust. Get your brain as fit as your body and achieve your triathlon potential.
Triathlon Science is packed with all the expertise you can handle, and more. From fine-tuning your physiology for each of the three disciplines...
The Well-Built Triathlete
Turning Potential into Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
In The Well-Built Triathlete, elite triathlon coach Matt Dixon reveals the approach he has used to turn age-group triathletes into elite professionals and champions.
Dixon's method breaks new ground in triathlon training, introducing a new, comprehensive approach that builds the whole athlete...
by Fritz Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Eric Liddell: Humility discusses the struggles and triumphs of Eric Liddell's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve...
Jim Thorpe
World's Greatest Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox Indian. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the...
by T. J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Here T. J. Murphy, a longtime triathlete and Editor-in-Chief of Triathlete Magazine, offers the aspiring triathlete a clear and simple pathway that will guide him or her toward experiencing the ultimate fitness lifestyle, culminating with the successful completion of a first triathlon. Beginning with...
Run for Life
The Anti-Aging, Anti-Injury, Super-Fitness Plan to Keep You Running to 100
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Over 35 and want to win your age group and run injury-free for the next 50 years or even longer? Run for Life lays out a plan to help you run to 100. Traveling the running world from Kenya to Tahiti and Boston to Badwater in search of the keys to super-fit running longevity, Wallack tests new running...
Going Long
Training for Triathlon's Ultimate Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Internationally recognized triathlon coach and best-selling author Joe Friel teams up with ultra-endurance guru Gordon Byrn in Going Long, the most comprehensive guide to racing long-course and Ironman-distance triathlons. Combining science with personal experience, Friel and Byrn prepare anyone,...
100 Essential Triathlon Sessions
The Definitive Training Programme for all Serious Triathletes
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Triathlon has seen huge changes in the past few decades; it has grown in popularity; been recognised as an Olympic sport; and witnessed a rapid increase in standards of performance at all levels. These changes have been accompanied by major developments in training principles and methods. Two of the...
by Mark Klion, Troy Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
See what it takes to maximize multisport strength, power, speed, and endurance. Triathlon Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by increasing muscular strength and optimizing the efficiency of every movement.
Triathlon Anatomy features 82 of the most effective multisport exercises...
by USA Triathlon
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Triathletes, rejoice! For the first time, USA Triathlon, its elite athletes, and the nation’s most respected coaches share their secrets, strategies, and advice for every stage, every event, and every aspect of the world’s most demanding sport. From training to technique, fueling to recovery,...
FASTER
Demystifying the Science of Triathlon Speed
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Triathlon is among the world's most gear-intensive sports. The gear you select and how you use it can mean big results--or bigger disappointment.
FASTER takes a scientific look at triathlon to see what truly makes you faster--and busts the myths and doublespeak that waste your money and race...