Training for Young Distance Runners - 2E

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Race your best this season with science-based training specifically geared for teenage runners. Your performance will soar when you follow the proven guidelines on designing customized daily, weekly, and seasonal programs.

Running experts Larry Greene and Russ Pate combine the latest research with what works in the most successful high school and college programs throughout the country. You'll learn how to optimize performance through tempo running, interval training, technique drills, circuit and weight training, and flexibility exercises. And you'll gain a competitive advantage by applying guidelines for choosing the best foods and nutritional supplements, developing mental fitness, and preventing injuries.

Training for Young Distance Runners has everything you need to build a winning training program for cross country, track and field, and road racing events. Get this book and get ahead of the pack!

Customer reviews for 'Training for Young Distance Runners - 2E'

«Useful and practical»

I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get anything out of this book when I purchased it. It turns out it is filled with very practical information that the cross country team at my school can benefit from this fall. It was a wise purchase.

[Thursday, October 08, 2009]

«Coaches Guidebook can give parents valuable insight as well»

As a former high school cross country runner, the book Training for Young Distance Runner seemed to do a great job of providing a comprehensive overview of the skills needed to coach high school cross country runners. Greene and Pate offer advice on nutrition, running physiology, psychology and biomechanics for high school athletes. They book also covers training methods that improve the flexibility, mobility, and running technique as well as the proper amount of recovery time after hard workouts and competition.

As an adult runner, I only race once per month, but I remember racing several times per month in my high school days. This book will provide insight into running for high school runners, but adult runners can also benefit from the advice on creating a proper training microcycle and mesocycle. I loved the author's post-workout questions for cross country runners on page 171:

How are your legs feeling after an interval workout?
How is your breathing (during the workout)?
How did your technique feel on that last stride?
Did you like that workout?

These questions are valuable for me, because I tend to want to overtrain and overachieve in anything I set my mind to. Asking myself the right questions and listening to my body will help me prevent running injuries and keep my motivation to keep on training.

This book would also be valuable for parents of cross country runners, and a good reference for high school runners themselves. The book addresses running mesocycles and the impact of running on a child going through adolescence.

[Tuesday, September 01, 2009]

«Training for Young Distance Runners»

The book is very good but the title is a bit misleading as it is geared towards age 12 and up and not towards young runners 7-11 year olds. I do recommend none the less.

[Wednesday, June 17, 2009]

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