Mariska Van Sprundel, Danny Guinan

Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance

Übersetzer: Guinan, Danny

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A runner and science journalist seeks to find the scientific basis for much of the commonly transmitted wisdom that exists in the running community"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 132mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780262542449
• ISBN-10: 0262542447
• Artikelnr.: 60894358

Autorenporträt

Mariska van Sprundel is a freelance science journalist who has written for Runner's World and other publications. The creator of The Rational Runner, a blog about science and running, she is a running instructor for recreational runners at a Utrecht athletics club.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 The Rise of the Long-Distance Runner
2 The Usefulness of Running Shoes
3 Back to Bare Feet
4 Built to Run
5 Training Load and Load Capacity
6 The Right Fuel in the Tank
7 A Spring to the John
8 Running for your Life
9 The Secret to Speed
10 Fatigue is All in the Mind
11 Running as Therapy for the Brain
Epilogue: Do Your Own Science
Acknowledgments
Bibliography 
Index