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Daniels' Running Formula
The Sports Plus take
A proven plan for every distance, from the coach behind VDOT.
Jack Daniels' VDOT system sets your training paces from a recent race, and this fourth edition lays it all out: the types of training, how to build a season, and 31 ready-made plans for distances from 800 meters to ultras and triathlons. It also covers treadmill running, training at altitude and adjustments for runners from 6 to 80. A deep, practical book for serious runners and the coaches who train them.
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How it reads
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Best for
- Runners training for a race
- Track and cross country coaches
- Marathoners chasing a PR
About this book
- Author
- Jack Daniels
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Published
- March 19, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-10
- 1718203667
- ISBN-13
- 978-1718203662
Book description
Train for your next race with the man who has been called "the world's best running coach."
With more than 55 years of experience, Jack Daniels is a legendary figure in the running community. Named the National Coach of the Year by the NCAA and honored as the Division III Women's Cross Country Coach of the Century, Daniels has mentored some of the greatest names in running, including Jim Ryun, Ken Martin, Jerry Lawson, Alicia Shay, Peter Gilmore, Magdalena Lewy-Boulet, and Janet Cherobon-Bawcom. In Daniels' Running Formula, he has shared training advice with hundreds of thousands of runners. Now in this updated fourth edition, he again refines his methods and strategies to help you run faster and stronger.
Building upon his VDOT system, Daniels incorporates new insights gained from studying participants in his Run SMART Project. You'll be guided through the components that make the training formula work and then learn different types of training--including treadmill training, fitness training, and training at altitude or in other challenging environments--along with age-related modifications for runners from ages 6 to 80.
Everything comes together with expert advice on event-specific training for runs ranging from 800 meters to ultradistance events and triathlons. You will find advice on setting up your own seasonal plan, or you can follow one of Daniels' 31 proven training plans and workouts. You'll even find four fitness running plans, from novice level to elite level, to get in shape or regain conditioning after injury.
About the author
Jack Daniels has been called the world's best running coach. He has more than 55 years of experience coaching and mentoring some of the world's top distance runners at the collegiate and postcollegiate levels. An elite athlete himself, he won two Olympic medals and one world championship medal in the men's modern pentathlon. At SUNY Cortland, his runners won eight NCAA Division III team national championships, 30 individual national titles, and more than 130 All-America awards, and he was named NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Coach of the 20th Century. He holds a doctoral degree in physical education and physiology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and studied exercise science in Stockholm under sport scientist Per-Olof Åstrand.
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