Training Tips for Runners

By Billy Dean

This detailed, illustrated guide will help runners close the gap between their present fitness and their potential fitness by training smarter, not by struggling against the effects of aging. Topics include Form, Muscles, Feet, Shoes, and Training. This guide includes a special section on how to align your training and your goals using Heart Rate Zones. Each zone is a Training Level associated with a range of heart rates and training effects. Unlike most zone training guides, which use a percentage of your maximum heart rate to determine a zone for a particular training effect, this guide uses percentages of your Heart Rate Reserve to determine the range of heart rates for each zone. Another advantage to using this guide is that it includes a Do-It-Yourself Maximum Heart Rate Test and gives you links to calculators that tailor the heart rates of each zone to your age and heart rate reserve.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Billy Dean
• Release date: Apr 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370778768

Billy Dean

Billy Dean is a free-lance writer with degrees in English and Engineering. He has written articles for trade journals, been a newspaper columnist, performed poetry at open mic events, and had his essays, memoirs, poems, stories and how-to guides published with on-line magazines and e-book distributors.

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Training tips for runners

Billy Dean

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« Your Tips »

Your Form > Learn how to transform heel strikes into mid-foot landings so your running becomes a harmony of mind and body.

Your Stride > Run faster and more efficiently by improving your natural stride rate and stride length, not by forcing it.

Your Muscles > You run primarily with the muscles of your legs, and they must cooperate with each other to get the job done.

Your Feet > You run