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How to cross-train to improve running times and prevent overuse injuries-whether you are participating in your first 10-K or competing to win a marathon or triathlon

If you want to enjoy a long, successful life of running, it's essential to incorporate non-running activities into your training program.

Strength exercises will keep your muscles in balance. Flexibility exercises will keep them supple. And alternative endurance activities will help heal existing injuries while preventing future ones.

In Runner's World Guide to Cross-Training, Matt Fitzgerald-seasoned runner, triathlete, sports and fitness journalist, and online coach to runners and triathletes-tells you everything you need to know about the very best cross-training exercises for runners, from the equipment you'll have to buy to the techniques you'll have to master. In addition to strength training and flexibility exercises, he recommends the six best non-impact cardiovascular activities for runners: pool running, elliptical training, bicycling, inline skating, swimming, and cross-country skiing. The book shows how to integrate running and cross-training, and features five complete sample programs that will train you to compete in a basic 10-K, advanced 10-K/half marathon, basic marathon, advanced marathon, and triathlon.

Until now, there hasn't been a credible cross-training book designed especially for runners. With the imprimatur of Runner's World magazine-recognized everywhere as the most authoritative source of information on the sport-this excellent guide will be welcomed by runners at every level as the book to consult for advice on this vital topic.
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From kick-boxing, Pilates, and other cutting-edge exercise options to perennial favorites (such as running, biking, and swimming), this guide helps you create customized workouts that minimize boredom and maximize results. Cross-Training For Dummies features

• Tips on mixing and matching activities for a balanced workout
• Photos and illustrations that show proper techniques
• Advice on setting goals, staying motivated, and preventing injuries

The workout you want is yours when you delve into this ...For Dummies edition. So lace up your cross-trainers! It's time to weight lift on Monday, play volleyball on Wednesday, and take a fitness class on Friday!.
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Most endurance athletes know very little about the latest concepts in developing trunk stability, joint stability, strength, power, agility, balance, and flexibility Covering sports such as running, road cycling, mountain biking, swimming, skiing, and triathlon, this practical guide takes a functional, integrated, and sport-specific approach to these issues in cross training. Written specifically to the unique needs of endurance athletes, the book shows readers how to prevent injury, correct muscular imbalances, and ultimately enhance performance by improving efficiency of movement and force production..
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Cross-Training is a management education and quality control tool used to enhance an employee’s motivation, knowledge, participation and ability to multitask in a team environment. This PROCESS with its seven derivatives (Productivity, Reliability, Objectivity, Creativity, Efficacy, Satisfaction, and Stimulus) is the result of the author’s Process Theory of Perpetual Motivation Positioning (PMP). PMP provides the impetus to PROCESS though stimulus (motivation) and this in turn increases total performance and employee satisfaction. This book will explain the theory behind Cross-Training and suggest ways on how you can design and implement your own system in your company..
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This is a "How To' book about improving one's athletic and golfing ability. It exposes the 'I'm too old," belief and the "I can't' charade The better teaching in golf comes from those with an inveterate knowledge of the game, and the ability to convey it. As one who has lived the experience of improvement through strengthening the left hand, I'm able to sneak up beside the reader and say, "Oh yes you can. Yes, you CAN. SEE? You couldn't get there from HERE, but if you do THIS first, or accomplish THAT task, you'll improve enough to do THIS." And enjoy the doing of it. Sports like golf - with intricate physical mechanics - SEEM like mysteries to many because they've missed the good instruction, or listened through ears of disbelief because they weren't athletic superstars in their youth. Careful readers will understand they don't NEED to have learned golf as a child to become proficient and have fun with it as an adult. They just need to learn to transfer their personal physical talents and sports abilities into the mechanics of the golf swing. This is a process, and it's what the book is about. I've sought in the writing to simplify golf - a game in which intricacy and difficulty IS the draw, as well as the bane. The book never strays from the theme that golf is a physical game, but without spreading it thin, I maintain that athleticism is gained through diligent and guided practice, peppered with belief. The book focuses on elemental truths fundamental to successfully striking a golf ball. immutable nuggets I've come face-to-face with through experience, highlighted and punctuated by wisdom from, among others, Ted Williams, Jack Nicklaus and Muhammed Ali. Most golfers swing the club with a dominant right hand, because 90 percent of the population is right-handed..
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Cross-Training for Sports gives you more variety and better results in an ideal training program. You’ll improve your strength, power, speed, endurance, flexibility, agility, and balance—the components of complete sports conditioning.

Whether you’re an athlete looking to maximize your performance potential or a coach trying to develop better conditioning workouts and programs, you’ll appreciate the book’s easy-to-use format. A special Cross-Training Activity Matrix summarizes the best options for 26 sports. Illustrations accompany concise exercise descriptions and prescriptions. And a Cross-Training Compatibility Chart shows the training benefits you’ll achieve for different sports combinations.

Take the guesswork out of your training. Use Cross-Training for Sports at your next workout and get an edge on the competition..
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