Running: Getting Started - Softcover

Galloway, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841262420 ISBN 13: 9781841262420

Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2008

Synopsis

Running Getting Started is a practical and motivational guide to getting into the running lifestyle for people of all fitness levels. It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted sports and fitness media. Have you ever wanted to start running - either to get fit or just for fun - but didn't know where to start? This practical and easy-to-understand volume offers a simple, motivational training technique that will help anyone get into the running lifestyle. Running - Getting Started is packed with expert advice, hints and tips from a former Olympian, who has been injury-free for over 25 years, on everything you need to know - from starting your training to buying the right equipment and clothing, and from injury prevention and staying motivated to dietary and nutritional information. All of the methods and techniques described can be incorporated into even the busiest lifestyle, and will help improve wellbeing, relieve stress, and increase vitality.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeff Galloway was an average teenage runner who kept learning and working harder, until he became an Olympian. He also competed in the International Cross-Country Championships and was a member of the US National Championship team. He is the author of the best-selling running book in North America: Galloway's Book on running and is a Runner's World columnist, as well as an inspirational speaker for more than 200 running and fitness sessions each year. He has worked with over 250,000 people in training for specific goals and Galloway s quest for an injury-free marathon training program led him to develop group-training programs in 1978. Galloway is the designer of the walk-run, low-mileage marathon training program (Galloway RUN-WALK method) with a success rate of over 98%.

About this edition

• Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1841262420
• ISBN 13: 9781841262420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 231