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Galloway offers an easy step by step program. Tips are included on nutrition, staying motivated, building endurance, shoes, stretching, strengthening and much more. Learn how to run while reducing and eliminating theaches and pains suffered during most training programs.

In RUN FOREVER, Boston Marathon winner and former Runner's World editor-in-chief Amby Burfoot shares practical advice and wisdom on how to run with greater joy and health for an entire lifetime. Everyone learns how to run at an early age. It's naturally wired into your body. Yet in recent years,...

From basic tenets of training to nutrition guidelines,this is the first resource for runners to fully integrate nutrition with training for a complete and systematic pre-race plan. "A must for marathoners"(Library Journal). Every year, roughly 2 million people participate in marathons...

The Couch to 5K running program is a tried and tested plan that has turned thousands of couch potatoes into runners in just nine weeks. Following this plan you will work out three times per week for about 30 minutes per session. You will begin with walking and gradually add more running until...

" Building on the success of the popular Beginning Runner's Handbook, Marathon and Half Marathon shows you how to get motivated and set realistic goals, choose the proper shoes, eat right, build strength and endurance, and avoid sore muscles and injury. It also includes tips from elite...

Galloway offers an easy and time efficient system to train for a 5K and 10K. His unique system gives you control over fatigue, while reducing and eliminating aches and pains. Successful schedules help beginners finish each workout strong, with time goal programs for veterans.

This is a book aimed at beginner and intermediate runners who are considering entering a marathon or half marathon. If you are reading this, it’s likely that you fall into that exact category. Know that the challenge you are considering taking on is huge, but achievable if you put in the right amount...

"What is your biggest frustration as a runner or walker?" Ask other runners and walkers this question, and you will get answers such as speedwork, injury recovery, and hydrating properly. Gratitude Power for Runners and Walkers shows that gratitude is the fastest path to preventing or eliminating...

As seen on Fox News, Instyle.com, and in Self Magazine & Women's Running Maximize the burn and eliminate the pain with the BITE method! Move over, HIIT--there's a new workout in town! The Balanced Interval Training Experience, or BITE method, helps you shed weight and improve your run...

Thank you for your interest in the for beginners series. The for beginners series is a series of books aimed and designed for beginners.  As such the books are more like booklets in that they are short but made so that they could be easily digested, easy to understand and easy to apply.  The...

The main section of the book gives fun runners and ambitious runners alike a knowledgeable introduction, enabling them to draw up a structured training plan for the ultra-distances. Runners are provided with plans for 50km 100km, 24hr and multi-day races and shown how to achieve these performances. They...

If you've seen people doing crazy jumps over railings and through cities, these trained experts are probably practicing either parkour, or Free running. Parkour is a form of movement that stresses efficiency and speed, requiring you to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. Free Running...

When 40-year-old Gregory Marchand suffered a cardiac arrest at the end of an eight-kilometer road race and was without a pulse for 20 minutes, few thought he would survive. This inspiring story of hope tells how he battled through a coma, heart surgery and debilitating brain injury to search for the...

*Fifty Places to Run Before You *Die is a beautifully illustrated collection of the most exhilarating running courses in the world. Featuring a balance of popular races (marathons, 10Ks, and endurance runs) and scenic trails off the beaten path, as well as interviews with accomplished runners and...