Serious Training for Endurance Athletes | 
| Authors: Rob Sleamaker, Ray Browning
Brand: Human Kinetics
Category: Book
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 126431
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2 Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 0.9
MPN: 0873226445
ISBN: 0873226445
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
EAN: 9780873226448
ASIN: 0873226445
Publication Date: September 1996
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Condition: in great shape minor wear and use some underlining
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Product Description
SERIOUS Training for Endurance Athletes provides the tools to create training programs and workouts that will pay off in competition. Endurance athletes, coaches, and multisport fitness buffs will learn how to design, schedule, execute, and monitor training programs for top results. Rob Sleamaker joins with Ray Browning, seven-time Ironman Triathlon winner, to produce a much improved version of the highly popular earlier edition. You will learn to: - set up and manage your personalized training schedule;, - use the S-E-R-I-O-U-S system of training--Speed, Endurance, Race-pace, Intervals, Over distance, Up-hill Intervals, Strength;, - add variety to your workouts;, - develop a winning nutritional program;, - prepare mentally for races; and, - stay motivated to train and win.,
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 Serious Reading for Serious Athletes October 6, 2008
Rob Sleadmaker and Ray Browning deliver serious knowledge about athletic training.
The writers give you 21 spreadsheets for you to track your program (see appendix).
If you want to speed you through the book, follow this reading plan:
MUST Chapters (for Knowing, Insight)
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1) [ch 11] Staying Motivated to Train
2) [ch 6] Fueling the Body for Training and Performance
3) [ch 2] Foundations of Systematic Training
4) [ch 7] Recovering Effectively from Training
5) [ch 4, to page 111] Doing SERIOUS Workouts
MUST Chapters (to Follow their System)
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1) [ch 4, from page 111] Doing SERIOUS Workouts
2) [ch 3] Scheduling Your Training
OPTIONAL Chapters
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1) [ch 1] Determining Your Training and Competition Needs
2) [ch 8] Tracking Your Training
3) [ch 9] Managing Your Training Program
4) [ch 10] Optimizing Your Training for Racing
 A Serious Book for Serious Athletes-No Kidding April 29, 2007
This is the first book a serious athlete should read on endurance and multisport training. It provides a great foundation for everything you will need to know to develop your own effective training program. The writing team of Sleamaker and Browning work well together. Sleamaker gives you the theory and the facts, and Browning puts them into practice.
 Okay read April 20, 2007
It has a lot of good ideas on how to create a training schedule. This isn't the main book I use but I do revert to some of the ideas on occasion.
Very helpful November 18, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use this book in order to build my training schedule and I enjoy any minute. The book explains the different components of the periodic training method and presents a practical way to develope a yearly log for different types of endurance events (road races up to the marathon distance, triathlons and duathlons up to ironman/ powerman distances, cross-country race, cross-country skiing). I use this books for over a year now, and I find it very helpul.
The fifth star is missing because I find that the books is lacking a more comprehansive view for the periodization within the training week.
Good book June 25, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good book for people who have never done a sport at a high level, because it will show you how to do a good training and give you ideas for exercises, it is also for people who plan to do some sport for a special event (for example, training for a 1 week or more mountain hiking)
I would not really recommend this book to people who already do high level taining and who allready are in a training program, because they probably allready know most of the exercises and ideas of this book (or at least something equivalent)
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