East African running
Subtitle: toward a cross-disciplinary perspective
By: edited by Yannis Pitsiladis ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pitsiladis, Yannis, 1967-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780415377874; 9780415377881
Subjects: Running -- Africa, East; Running -- Physiological aspects; Human genetics; Athletes -- Africa, East
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kenyan running before the 1968 Mexico Olympics / John Bale; title: The promise and possibilities of running in and out of East Africa / Grant Jarvie; title: Raiders from the Rift Valley : cattle raiding and distance running in East Africa / John Manners; title: The Haile Gebrselassie story : a biography of difference / Jim Denison; title: Outstanding performance despite low fluid intake : the Kenyan running experience / Barry W. Fudge ... [et al.]; title: Energy balance and body composition of elite endurance runners : a hunter-gatherer phenotype / Barry W. Fudge ... [et al.]; title: Diet and endurance performance of Kenyan runners : a physiological perspective / Dirk L. Christensen; title: Dominance of Kenyan Kalenjins in middle- and long-distance running / Henrik B. Larsen; title: Understanding the dominance of african endurance runners : exercise biology and an integrative model / Kathryn H. Myburgh; title: Studies of physiological and neuromuscular function of Black South African distance runners / Yolande Harley and Timothy D. Noakes; title: Erythropoietic indices in elite kenyan runners training at altitude : effects of descent to sea level / Brain Moore ... [et al.]; title: Genes and human elite athletic performance / Daniel G. MacArthur and Kathryn N. North; title: Genetics and endurance performance / Helen M. Luery, Kyriacos I. Eleftheriou and Hugh E. Montgomery; title: Evidence for the natural East African athlete / Robert A. Scott ... [et al.].