Full Description
This text provides complete instruction on developing ideal running techniques for personal fitness and serious competition. Through easy-to-follow steps designed to gradually build their abilities, readers learn how to choose reliable shoes and running gear and create an effective training and running programme. Also, the authors share tips on nutrition, reducing stress with exercise, avoiding and treating injuries and entering and winning various competitions. The text is supplemented with figures of stretching positions, training exercises, muscle diagrams, running apparel and more. Emphsis is on distance running rather than sprinting.