Road Racing for Serious Runners or Hormonal Balance

Road Racing for Serious Runners

Author: Pete Pfitzinger

Improve your racing performance through multispeed training! Whether your distance is 5K, marathon, or anything in between, this book tells you how to train smarter and run faster. Pete Pfitzinger - a world-class marathoner, distance running coach, and exercise physiologist - teams up with former Running Times editor-in-chief Scott Douglas to teach you how to: design a week-by-week training program, determine the right pace to run during speed workouts, get the most out of long runs, taper training before an important race, detect and avoid staleness and injury, determine the best strategy for each race, and achieve the optimal mental state to train and race. Included with each of five training schedules are racing tactics, mental tips, and lessons from world-class runners.

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Both runners themselves, Pfitzinge, a coach and exercise physiologist, and Douglas, former editor of set out a multi-speed training program for runners competing at lengths ranging from five kilometers to marathon. They also explain the physiology of running, and profile runners, but do not provide an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Hormonal Balance: Understanding Hormones, Weight, and Your Metabolism

Author: Scott Isaacs

First published in 2002 and now updated and expanded, this guide pioneered the idea that hormones play a key role in weight loss and weight control. Writing in clear, simple terms, Dr. Isaacs profiles each hormone system, discussing what can go wrong and how imbalances can affect weight and even perpetuate obesity. The book explains how to reverse symptoms of hormonal imbalance through diet changes and other remedies, and then expands the discussion, teaching readers how to deal with everything from menstrual cycles to diabetes by recognizing and remedying hormonal problems.