Full Description
Run faster, stronger, and longer—and remain injury free. With Mastering Running, regardless of your age, optimal performance and new personal bests await.
Cathy Utzschneider, highly accomplished and renowned masters runner and coach, has created the definitive guide for runners, athletes, and fitness buffs. Runners from 30 to 100 will benefit from the targeted approach that covers these aspects:
• Evaluating and refining running form to improve speed and endurance
• Exercises, stretches, and routines to prevent common age-related injuries
• Training programs for the mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon, and full marathon
• Proven strategies, used by today's top runners, that shave seconds off your time
Mastering Running contains all the advice and instruction you'd expect from an elite-level coach. With details on segmenting, front running, tapering, recovering, and fueling, Mastering Running is the one guide you'll rely on time and again to achieve your potential.
Contents
Part I: The Masters Runner
Chapter 1: Masters Runners: The Never-Ending Pursuit
Chapter 2: Understanding Runners and Aging
Chapter 3: Meeting the Challenge of Aging
Chapter 4: Biomechanics of Good Form
Chapter 5: Warding Off Injuries
Chapter 6: Flexibility and Stretching
Part II: Training
Chapter 7: Goal Setting for Fitness and Competition
Chapter 8: Getting Faster
Chapter 9: Getting Stronger
Part III: Event-Specific Training Programs
Chapter 10: Back to Basics
Chapter 11: Mile and 5K
Chapter 12: 10K and Half Marathon
Chapter 13: Marathon
Part IV: Competing
Chapter 14: Race Strategy
Chapter 15: Beyond the Standard Events
