Serious Training for Endurance Athletes (Paperback)

by Rob Sleamaker (Author), Ray Browning (Author) "It has been our experience, as athletes for over 20 years and from training and racing as well as coaching and advising thousands of athletes..." (more)
Key Phrases: tempo speed bursts, periodization pattern, overdistance workouts, Vasa Trainer, World Cup, Davis Phinney (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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"""The ultimate resource for the endurance athlete. This book will take you up to the next level."""
Connie Carpenter
1984 Olympic Gold-Medal Cyclist
President, Carpenter/Phinney Bike Camps
"""Rob and Ray have laid out the nuts and bolts of endurance training, taking into consideration perhaps the single most important factorlifestyle. SERIOUS Training for Endurance Athletes provides the fundamentals necessary to start developing a training regime that works for you!"""
Mark Allen, Six-time Hawaii Ironman Champion
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Product Description
Whether you swim, run, cycle, cross-country ski, or compete in multievents, SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes is the tool you need to become the best possible endurance athlete. Use these 7 components of the SERIOUS system to enhance your training:

Speed workouts

Endurance or Easy Distance training

Race/Pace sessions to test your fitness level

Intervals of high-intensity workouts on flat terrain

Overdistance sessions of prolonged, low-level activity for base building

Up/Vertical intervals to enhance mental and physical toughness Strength workouts for overall and sport-specific conditioning

SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes shows you how to design a personalized year-round training plan by modifying the SERIOUS plan designed for your sport. You'll finally have a sure-fire method to reach peak racing condition safely and predictably.

SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes provides the coach, trainer and athlete with solid guidelines for designing personalized training programs. Author Rob Sleamaker has analyzed the world's best systems of endurance sport training and devised this program by combining the most effective elements of each. SERIOUS Training for Serious Athletes includes sport-specific training recommendations for cyclists, distance runners, swimmers, canoeists, biathletes, triathletes, and all other endurance athletes.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 2 Sub edition (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873226445
• ISBN-13: 978-0873226448
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #129,760 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For coaches and people who want to coach themselves, February 18, 2000

By	Aleksi Kolehmainen (Helsinki, Finland) - See all my reviews

I think this book is excellent. It provides detailed information on how to plan your own training schedule with all the required components. I think too many athletes have one training pattern which they just repeat week after week. If you want to take your training to another level and want to build yourself a professional training schedule realistically based on time available for training; this book is for you. It is very easy to understand for me and it goes quite straight to the practic.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the very best systems book, September 1, 1998

By	Michael Weinstein (Glenwood Springs, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a very good systems design book that details how to develop a "best available strategy*" training program to accomplish a goal you set -- e.g., run a 50 Minute 10K race in late August. I know of no other book so good at letting you set a goal and then derive a fully structured training program for meeting that goal.

* based on current optimization theories regarding load (HR), workout duriation, periodization ...

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book will get you training!, January 22, 1999

By	Brynne ([e-mail]) (Ames, Iowa) - See all my reviews

After reading several other books on triathlons and trying to start some training programs, I was beginning to get discouraged. I couldn't find a program I liked, so I wouldn't stick with it. SERIOUS Training for Endurance Athletes proved to be the solution I needed. This book will let you form a training plan that gives you specific times and goals for each workout. Having those numbers in mind will help you make it through that last interval, last mile or last lap. Good luck and train hard!