Quick Strength for Runners - Jeff Horowitz

Quick Strength for Runners

8 Weeks to a Better Runner's Body

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2014
VeloPress (Verlag)
978-1-937715-12-0 (ISBN)
23,65 inkl. MwSt
Strength training is crucial for better running and injury prevention. But it's difficult to know which strength exercises work best for runners or to get motivated to hit the gym. In this book, the author simplifies strength training into just two 20-minute workouts per week, with no gym or pricey equipment required.
Quick Strength for Runners offers a smart, fast-paced strength training program for runners who want to run faster and with fewer injuries. In under an hour a week, runners will strengthen their core and key running muscles to build a better runner's body.

Strength training is crucial to better running and injury prevention. But it's difficult to know which exercises work best for runners or to get motivated to hit the gym.

In Quick Strength for Runners, running coach and personal trainer Jeff Horowitz simplifies strength training into just two 20-minute workouts per week, with no gym or pricey equipment required. Designed specifically for runners, the Quick Strength program pinpoints the exercises that really work. Inside you'll find:

• A guide to how strength training leads to better running form and fitness
• 40 targeted exercises, with step-by-step photos and clear instructions
• Progressive workouts and advanced form options to increase strength as fitness improves
• A focused and efficient 8-week strength training program
• Tips on designing your own long-term workout program for a lifetime of fitness

Quick Strength for Runners makes it easy for runners to build a better runner's body. This highly effective, easy-to-implement program will make you a stronger, faster runner in under an hour a week so you can stay on the road or trail.

Jeff Horowitz is a certified running, cycling and triathlon coach, and a personal trainer who has run more than 175 marathons and ultra-marathons across six continents. Formerly an attorney, he quit law to pursue his passion for endurance sport and now works with at-risk youth in Washington DC and around the world. He also coaches Team Hope, a charity fund-raising training group that benefits the Hope Connections Center, which provides free counselling and services to a cancer patients and survivors.

Introduction

1 Strength Training for Runners: A Primer
2 Getting Started
3 The Exercises
4 The Workouts
5 Taking It on the Road
6 A Lifetime of Fitness

About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.1.2014
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Leichtathletik / Turnen
ISBN-10 1-937715-12-4 / 1937715124
ISBN-13 978-1-937715-12-0 / 9781937715120
Zustand Neuware
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