Serious Training for Endurance Athletes
Serious Training for Endurance Athletes

Author: Rob Sleamaker

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780873226448

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SERIOUS Training for Endurance Athletes provides the tools to create training programs and workouts that will pay off in competition. Endurance athletes, coaches, and multisport fitness buffs will learn how to design, schedule, execute, and monitor training programs for top results. Rob Sleamaker joins with Ray Browning, seven-time Ironman Triathlon winner, to produce a much improved version of the highly popular earlier edition. You'll learn to: - set up and manage your personalized training schedule; - use the S-E-R-I-O-U-S system of training--Speed, Endurance, Race-pace, Intervals, Overdistance, Up-hill Intervals, Strength; - add variety to your workouts; - develop a winning nutritional program; - prepare mentally for races; and - stay motivated to train and win. The authors share their expertise in a fun and informative way, drawing from their own experiences as champions. Plus, the book features the latest training advice for running, cycling, mountain biking, swimming, rowing, cross-country skiing, cross training, duathlons, and triathlons. SERIOUS Training for Endurance Athletes is your guide to high-level fitness and performance.

Serious Training for Serious Athletes
Serious Training for Serious Athletes

Author: Rob Sleamaker

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Provides guidelines for designing personalized training programs, including recommenations for cycling, distance running, swimming, canoeing, biathlon, and triathlon participants.

Finish Strong
Finish Strong

Author: Richard Boergers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1472977440

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'A must read!' Kevin Portman, IRONMAN Champion 'This is a guide to staying in endurance sports for the long haul!' Kathryn Cumming, elite cyclist and coach 'The principles that RJ and Angelo explore in this book are critical to achieving your best performance and staying healthy' Matthew Back, IRONMAN Champion Maximise Results – Extend Your Career – Achieve a New Personal Best! Resistance training delivers results – and Finish Strong is the ultimate guide to using this training method to improve your athletic performance. Whether you are training for a 5K or an IRONMAN, you can experience the phenomenal benefits from incorporating targeting resistance and mobility exercises into your training calendar. Richard (RJ) Boergers and Angelo Gingerelli are two leading US health and fitness authorities who will introduce and break down the principles of resistance training in a clear, accessible way. Written by athletes for athletes, this expert guide will help you: – prevent injuries – build muscular strength – enhance athletic performance – find the confidence to achieve a new personal best. The book will help you Finish Strong!

Developing Endurance
Developing Endurance

Author: NSCA -National Strength & Conditioning Association

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2012-02-29

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1492582301

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Runners, cyclists, swimmers, rowers, triathletes, and ultradistance athletes must sustain performance at a high level to come out on top. Developing Endurance shows how to achieve optimal stamina to race your best through science-based aerobic, anaerobic, and resistance training. Written by 11 top experts in the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the top sport conditioning organization in the world, this guide provides both the background information and the exercises, drills, workouts, and programs for ultimate results. Athletes and coaches will appreciate the assessment tools, analyses, and instruction to define specific needs and establish effective training goals. Armed with these tools and information, you can create the ideal personalized training program for your sport and avoid lengthy plateaus while taking performance to the highest level. Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education course and exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes all the course materials and exam.

Supplementary Training for Endurance Sports
Supplementary Training for Endurance Sports

Author: Dietmar Lüchtenberg

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1841261122

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Endurance sports are an increasingly popular way of keeping fit. However, overtraining can often cause physical symptoms of overloading. This volume shows readers how to optimize their performance without experiencing these types of problems. Supplementary Training features targeted programmes composed of stretching, strengthening, co-ordination and relaxation exercises. It also presents the typical symptoms of injuries caused by cycling, swimming, and running, along with extensively illustrated exercises to counteract them. This will become an essential reference for all endurance athletes - from first time triathletes to seasoned pro's.

Endurance Athlete's Edge
Endurance Athlete's Edge

Author: Marc Evans

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9780873229388

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A guide for endurance athletes, featuring information on planning and executing a training program, maintaining proper nutrition, and preparing mentally for competition. Includes specific techniques for swimming, cycling, and running.

Your Best Triathlon
Your Best Triathlon

Author: Joe Friel

Publisher: VeloPress

Published: 2014-03-12

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1937716546

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Your Best Triathlon is a master plan that will guide experienced triathletes through every week of their season. For each phase of training, Joe lays out the path to success, outlining clear objectives and the guidelines to meet them. Joe Friel’s highly refined training plans for sprint, Olympic, half-Ironman®, and Ironman® race distances will help serious triathletes deliver a breakout performance, even those with countless races under their belt. Joe offers a tool kit of proven workouts that will isolate and develop specific abilities. Within each workout and plan, he offers easy modifications to better manage personal limiters and improve performance. Hundreds of thousands of triathletes have relied on Joe Friel and his groundbreaking best seller, The Triathlete’s Training Bible, to develop their own self-coached training programs. Now Joe Friel, the most experienced coach in triathlon, reveals his formula for advanced training and coaches triathletes to their best race ever.

Endurance in Sport
Endurance in Sport

Author: R. J. Shephard

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-30

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13: 0470694823

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Endurance in Sport is a comprehensive and authoritative work on all aspects of this major component of sports science. The book also embraces medical and sport-specific issues of particular relevance to those interested in endurance performance. The scientific basis and mechanisms of endurance - physiological, psychological, genetic and environmental - are all considered in depth. Measurement of endurance is extensively reviewed as is preparation and training for physical activities requiring endurance.

Training for the Uphill Athlete
Training for the Uphill Athlete

Author: Steve House

Publisher: Patagonia

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781938340840

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Presents training principles for the multisport mountain athlete who regularly participates in a mix of distance running, ski mountaineering, and other endurance sports that require optimum fitness and customized strength

Developing Endurance
Developing Endurance

Author: NSCA -National Strength & Conditioning Association

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1718206976

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Endurance sports continue to grow in popularity, with millions of people participating in events each year. To sustain such prolonged activities, athletes need a high level of aerobic and muscular fitness that can only be achieved through a properly designed training program constructed to optimize endurance performance. Developing Endurance, Second Edition, is your guide to developing effective endurance training programs. Written by 14 of the top National Strength and Conditioning Association experts, the book provides a physiological overview of endurance sports and explains how resistance, flexibility, and aerobic training all contribute to better performance. You’ll find technique guidelines and photos for resistance training and plyometric exercises that are specific to endurance sports. Multiple tests for assessing aerobic endurance enable you to evaluate and monitor ongoing changes in performance. Plus, an updated chapter about warm-up methods and techniques as well as a new chapter about programming for obstacle course racing make this the definitive edition of this trusted resource. With training programs for running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, and obstacle course racing, Developing Endurance takes the guesswork out of creating personalized training programs that help avoid plateaus and take performance to the next level. Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.