Serious Training for Endurance Athletes

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Human Kinetics, 1996 - 304 pages


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.

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Contents

Determining Your Training
1
Foundations
17
Scheduling Your Training
51
Doing SERIOUS Workouts
93
Warming Up Cooling Down
133
Fueling the Body for Training
153
Benefits of the HighCarbohydrate Diet
161
Pretraining and Racing Diets
170
Recovering Effectively
179
This
195
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220
Optimizing Your Training
225
Staying Motivated to Train
237
Appendixes 253
7
Index 299
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