Masters Racewalking: American Coaches & Athletes Share Ideas on Technique, Training & Racing [Paperback]

Elaine P. Ward (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1884647030 | ISBN-13: 978-1884647031 | Publication Date: January 1996

If a walker wants to get better and faster, Masters Racewalking offers a wide variety of information. Thirty American coaches and athletes share their experience and knowledge to help a walker improve

The reader receives the latest information on technique training, stretching and strengthening exercises, endurance and speed workouts, racing strategy, cross training equipment , injury prevention, nutrition and more. The final section explains the many opportunities available to masters walkers as well as American Records and World Top Peformances.

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About the Author

Master's Racewalking is edited by Elaine Ward. It is a compilation of her interviews dating from 1988 to 1995.

Elaine Ward is the Managing Director of the North American Racewalking Foundation, the President of the North American Racewalking Institute (the non-profit arm of the Foundation and presently supervising and supporting the young racewalking athletes at the ARCO Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California.) She is a fitness and competitive racewalking coach, a newspaper editor (U.S. Racewalking Journal) and columnist in National Masters News. She has written spiral bound books on racewalking.

Product Details

• Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: N a R F North Amer (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884647030
• ISBN-13: 978-1884647031
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,663,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)