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Achieve peak running performance with Coach Coogan.
Good racing doesn’t just happen. It’s a skill that must be honed with training and hard work. In Personal Best Running, Coach Mark Coogan shares his successful formula for running fast—while staying healthy and happy—without running taking over your life.
Coach Coogan has excelled in running as both an athlete and coach, producing numerous Olympic and champion runners. His success is founded in his belief that long-term running success is impossible if you’re not training and racing in the right environment and that running should never come at the expense of your overall physical or mental health. In addition to training strategies that will shave minutes off your time, Coach Coogan will also show you how to sleep and eat properly, surround yourself with supportive people, psychologically navigate setbacks and challenges, lower your injury risk, and have a life outside of running.
Get the physical and psychological strategies needed to build an aerobic base, balance hard work and recovery, achieve good running form, and turn adversity into an advantage. Learn the importance of strengthening and warm-up exercises, and master running drills that will make you a stronger runner. Plus, access the 30 online video clips that showcase the exercises and drills in action.
Coogan provides numerous training schedules for the mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon as well as schedules for running multiple races in a short period of time. For each distance, choose the length of training (from 6 weeks to 16 weeks) and weekly mileage range. The plans are supplemented with training and racing tips to help you better understand how to apply the concepts to your own running strategy.
You’ll also get a personal look at what successful runners do as Coach Coogan shares some of his own experiences as a runner and coach. And you’ll draw plenty of motivation and inspiration from the athlete profiles of eight of his accomplished runners, including Drew Piazza, Alexi Pappas, and Elle St. Pierre.
If you want to run better and race faster, now is your chance to train with Coach Coogan and Personal Best Running.
Earn continuing education credits! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately, or as part of a package that includes both the book and the exam.
From the Publisher
Audiences: Intermediate to advanced distance runners as well as running coaches.
Reach your running potential with Coach Coogan
Achieve peak running performance
Coach Mark Coogan shares his successful formula for running fast—while staying healthy and happy—without running taking over your life. Learn the physical and psychological strategies needed to build an aerobic base, balance hard work and recovery, achieve good running form, and turn adversity into an advantage. You’ll find training schedules for everything from the mile to the marathon, 30 videos showcasing strengthening and warm-up exercises, and running drills to make you a stronger runner.
KNEE TO CHEST TO LEG BEHIND QUAD STRETCH
Why to Do It
This exercise improves your flexibility and warms up your muscles. When you pull your knee toward your chest, you’re stretching your hamstrings, adductors, and the muscles around your hips and butt. When you do the quad pull, you’re stretching the front of your leg, the quads. This stretch allows you to run more smoothly.
How to Do It
Take a couple of steps, and then take one knee with both hands and pull it toward your chest. You should feel a good stretch at the top of your hamstrings. Then let the leg go back to the ground, take another step, and grab the same leg at the ankle with the same side hand, and pull it back toward your butt to get a good quad stretch. Your knee should be pointing toward the ground. Your opposite arm can reach toward the sky to increase the stretch.
Stay tall; don’t bend too much in any direction and try to have good posture. Keep your core engaged during the entire exercise. Once you’ve done the knee to the chest and the quad stretch, take another step and continue the exercise with the opposite leg. Do two to four sets for 20 meters (about five to six reps) each.
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Publication date : February 3, 2023
Edition : First Edition
Language : English
Print length : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1718214715
ISBN-13 : 978-1718214712
Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
Dimensions : 6.93 x 0.71 x 9.84 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #206,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #52 in Track & Field Sports #201 in Running & Jogging (Books) #293 in Sports Training (Books)
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