Running
Subtitle: getting started
By: Jeff Galloway
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Aachen; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781841265032; 9781841267418; 9781841262420
Subjects: Running; Training; Track & Field; SPORTS & RECREATION
Description: ""Running - Getting Started"" will take anyone, at any level of fitness, into the running lifestyle. Jeff Galloway, a US Olympian in 1972, has helped over 150,000 people make this journey while reducing or eliminating aches, pains, and injuries suffered during most training programs. Jeff developed the Run-Walk method of training, in which running is repeatedly interrupted by walk breaks, and offers a step by step program that is easy to use and easy to understand. Included will be lots of tips on nutrition, staying motivated, building endurance, shoes, stretching and strengthening and much mo.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; 1 Foreword: You Can Be a Runner!; 2 Why Run?; 3 What You Need to Get Started; 4 A Trip to the Running Store; 5 Setting Yourself Up for Running Success; 6 Your First WeekÑHow to Begin and Continue; 7 Your Three Week Schedule; 8 Your Next 21 Weeks; 9 The Galloway Run-Walk Method; 10 Getting Physical: What Happens When We Get in Shape; 11 Your Journal Will Inspire You; 12 Why Does Your Body Want to Hold Onto Fat?; 13 Why Some People Burn a Lot More Fat; 14 Fat Burning Training: For the Rest of Your Life; 15 Fat Burning: The Income Side of the Equation.; title: 16 Good Blood Sugar = Motivation17 An ExerciserÕs Diet; 18 Running Form; 19 Running Injury Free; 20 Your First Race; 21 Aches & Pains; 22 Stretching; 23 Strengthening; 24 Staying Motivated; 25 Cross Training: Exercise You Can Do on the Non-Running-Days; 26 Dealing with the Weather; 27 Destroying Excuses; 28 What About Kids?; 29 What If YouÕre Not Enjoying Your Running?; 30 Trouble Shooting; 31 Trouble Shooting Aches and Pains; 32 Running After 40, 50, 60, 70; 33 Being a Good Coach; 34 Special Report: Heart Disease and Running; Photo & Illustration Credits.