Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running, Second Edition, (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running) (Paperback)

by Robert G. Price (Author) "Warming up is an essential part of a weight-training routine..." (more)
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I’m the most improved soldier in our District, thanks to the awesome strength training information I got from this book. -- Rogelio A., Soldier in the US Army, April 22 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Running is the most comprehensive and up-to-date running-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round running-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other running book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book has been designed specially for runners to increase endurance, stamina, speed and strength. By following the programs contained in this book, you will no longer run out of gas before the race is over, but instead you will be able to sprint at record paces until the finish line.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Sportsworkout.com; 2 edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932549439
• ISBN-13: 978-1932549430
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,837 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Generic, basic, useless, April 27, 2009

By	A reader (London) - See all my reviews

First, you must be aware of the fact that this book is part of a series of about 30 books called "Weight training for...", including diverse activities such as rugby, bowling and cheerleading, and which are very similar one another. The author had the wonderful idea of writing basically one book and selling 30. Genius.

The book is structured as follows:
- A running-specific introduction
- Generic advice about gym workouts: basic stuff like the necessity of warming up and cooling down and making sure you don't lift more weight than you can
- Tons of (generic) exercises
- Two pseudo-scientific articles (one about technique and another about nutrition). These were the only remotely useful bits of the book, and they were written by other specialists.

From the above, it doesn't sound so bad. You could even thing this book was worthwhile. This is why it is not:

- The only running-specific advice is contained in the introduction (and the two articles), which is just 9 pages long (with huge font and big tables!)). All the rest of the book is totally generic, addressed to runners, racquetball players and golfers alike. Seriously, there is no other running-specific advice anywhere else, meaning around 85% of the book.

- The explanations to the exercises are pretty basic, similar to what you'll find printed in most decent gym machines. No value added there.

- Even worse, not even the selection of the exercises seemed to be really thought for runners. Only 20% (12 out of 60) of the exercises are for legs. I'm totally for a balanced work-out and training the core muscles, but you'd think runners would want to focus just a little bit more that 20% on the legs, right?

- There is no distinction between sprinters, hurdlers, marathoners, ultramarathoners, etc., which you'd assume would require "slightly" different training routines. You are left wondering whether the author even knows that there are several kinds of runners.

- Most annoyingly, the text is full of ads inviting the reader to join the author's (paid) website. Which I will not.

I truly do not know what the other reviewers based their reviews on, but IMHO this book (and the whole series) is pretty much a waste of your hard-earned money.

2.0 out of 5 stars short, not very useful, July 16, 2009

By	Michael J. Green "mitchner" (Evanston, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

First off, this book has about a 16 point font and is very short. It looks like my 6th grade book reports where I was trying to fill as many pages as possible. The author is a weight-lifter first and foremost and doesn't seem to have any particular insight into running. He just lists basic exercises and training programs.

The programs are very specific, and there is little advice on how you would tailor your own if you don't plan on lifting weights according to his strict schedule.

Skip this book, get a good book on basic strength training instead.

1.0 out of 5 stars get fooled - buy it, November 10, 2007

By	H. Bernhard "TheTriMaster" (Sweden) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Yes, the book get's one star for one single positive thing: the calculation of 1repmax without doing it. After some internet googling I could have found this also for free. The rest of the book is pure weightlifting very little to do with running. The author does not give the impression had a greater idea or even the ambition to do so. Waste of money! Very expensive recycling paper! As it became in my case!