Product Description

Whether you swim, run, cycle, cross-country ski, or compete in multievents, SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes is the tool you need to become the best possible endurance athlete. Use these 7 components of the SERIOUS system to enhance your training:

Speed workouts

Endurance or Easy Distance training

Race/Pace sessions to test your fitness level

Intervals of high-intensity workouts on flat terrain

Overdistance sessions of prolonged, low-level activity for base building

Up/Vertical intervals to enhance mental and physical toughness Strength workouts for overall and sport-specific conditioning

SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes shows you how to design a personalized year-round training plan by modifying the SERIOUS plan designed for your sport. You'll finally have a sure-fire method to reach peak racing condition safely and predictably.

SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes provides the coach, trainer and athlete with solid guidelines for designing personalized training programs. Author Rob Sleamaker has analyzed the world's best systems of endurance sport training and devised this program by combining the most effective elements of each. SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes includes sport-specific training recommendations for cyclists, distance runners, swimmers, canoeists, biathletes, triathletes, and all other endurance athletes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #299789 in Books
• Brand: Human Kinetics
• Published on: 1996-08-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780873226448
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
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""The ultimate resource for the endurance athlete. This book will take you up to the next level.""
Connie Carpenter
1984 Olympic Gold-Medal Cyclist
President, Carpenter/Phinney Bike Camps

""Rob and Ray have laid out the nuts and bolts of endurance training, taking into consideration perhaps the single most important factor—lifestyle. SERIOUS Training for Endurance Athletes provides the fundamentals necessary to start developing a training regime that works for you!""
Mark Allen, Six-time Hawaii Ironman Champion

From the Publisher
"The information [in this book] is well-organized and can prove to be a great asset in your training program if you are a serious athlete."

Fitness and Sports Review International

"Whether your aspirations are to pursue endurance sports at the local level or to become a world champion, SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes is a marvelous resource for analyzing, evaluating, and critiquing your training program. . . I am certainly fortunate to have read it months before my competitors will have access to it."

Dave Scott 6-time winner of the Ironman Triathlon

"This is it! . . . the book I have always wanted to recommend to the many athletes and coaches who want to develop sensible and systematic approaches to endurance training for competition."

E.C. Frederick, PhD coauthor of The Nike Cross Training System

"All athletes--regardless of sport--should turn to this book to learn how to create their optimal training program."

Kate Delhagen Health and fitness editor, Runner's World

About the Author
Rob Sleamaker has devoted most of his career to studying the scientific principles of endurance training and applying those principles to his work with elite and recreational athletes. Since earning his master's degree in exercise physiology from the University of Arizona, Rob has fulfilled a variety of sport-related responsibilities. He has worked as a sport physiologist at a sports medicine clinic in Burlington, Vermont, and assisted in research on the effects of exercise during pregnancy at the University of Vermont. From 1984 to 1986, Rob was director of sports medicine for the U.S. Biathlon Team. Since 1986, he has run his own business, Compufit, which provides personalized sport and fitness training systems to individuals as well as computer software for the fitness industry. Rob is a constant innovator and inventor, most recently developing the Vasa Trainer, a sports-specific strength/endurance exerciser for swimmers, triathletes, cross-country skiers, and other endurance athletes.

Rob frequently authors feature articles on endurance-sport training for major sport and fitness magazines, and he continues to coach several athletes. He lives in a log home in Williston, Vermont, with a cross-country ski center's trails just outside his door. An avid cross-country ski racer and biathlete, Rob also enjoys running, mountain biking, hiking, canoeing, reading, writing, and spending time in the wilderness.

Customer Reviews

For coaches and people who want to coach themselves
I think this book is excellent. It provides detailed information on how to plan your own training schedule with all the required components. I think too many athletes have one training pattern which they just repeat week after week. If you want to take your training to another level and want to build yourself a professional training schedule realistically based on time available for training; this book is for you. It is very easy to understand for me and it goes quite straight to the practic.

This book will get you training!
After reading several other books on triathlons and trying to start some training programs, I was beginning to get discouraged. I couldn't find a program I liked, so I wouldn't stick with it. SERIOUS Training for Endurance Athletes proved to be the solution I needed. This book will let you form a training plan that gives you specific times and goals for each workout. Having those numbers in mind will help you make it through that last interval, last mile or last lap. Good luck and train hard!

the very best systems book
This is a very good systems design book that details how to develop a "best available strategy*" training program to accomplish a goal you set -- e.g., run a 50 Minute 10K race in late August. I know of no other book so good at letting you set a goal and then derive a fully structured training program for meeting that goal.

* based on current optimization theories regarding load (HR), workout duriation, periodization ...