Endurance Athlete's Edge (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Many endurance athletes train randomly, not really knowing how hard or easy their training should be for each workout..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

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""Marc Evans has written another outstanding manual for triathletes, coaches, trainers, and sport scientists. This book is the most comprehensive treatment I've seen of a triathlon's unique training and skill development requirements.""
George M. Dallam
USA Triathlon National Team Coach

""Endurance Athlete's Edge provides the blueprint for creating an individualized training plan. Periodization of training intensity and volume is presented in an easy-to-grasp format with advice on adjustments to bring out the best in every athlete. With its commonsense tips for final preparations, the final chapter will make race day a breeze.""
Sue Latshaw
Triathlete
1996 USA Professional National Champion

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Product Description

If you want to finish strong in multiple distance events, Endurance Athlete’s Edge is your complete guide to faster race times. Marc Evans, one of the world’s top coaches of multisport athletes, including Scott Tinley, shares his training program and racing insights.

Coach Evans teaches the most efficient swimming, cycling, and running techniques, and includes numerous photographs and 50 performance drills to perfect your form. His detailed prescriptions for strength training, flexibility, nutrition, and mental training are tailored to endurance athletes needs. A series of charts and tables help you customize a training schedule. The result is a week-by-week training blueprint for each sport.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics (March 3, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087322938X
• ISBN-13: 978-0873229388
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #561,864 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Whew! - analytical overload!, November 14, 2000

By	Tim P Morken (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

Progression charts, milage graphs, timing in minutes and seconds, pace guides; whatever happened to just "doing it?" Marc Evans is certainly into it but I can't imagine how he keeps up with anyone he coaches, considering all the analysis that has to be done to use his method (would a three-sport athlete have time to even look at these charts?). Maybe it due to computers or maybe the rise of internet coaching, but analytical coaching seems to be the rage these days. If that's what you want, this is the book to get; Evans will have you dialed in and on a schedule that will be the envy of those who make Boeing 747's for a living! Just remember to have some fun in the process, OK? By the way, outside of scheduling charts actual sport-specific training advice is fairly skimpy and generalized. You'd do better to get specific sport information from sport-specific books. Evans would probably agree that a face-to-face coach is better for that sort of thing anyway. As for me, I'll take the advice of one great cyclist: "Ride lots."

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best training guide on the market for multisport athlete, October 27, 1997

By	[e-mail] (Novato, CA.) - See all my reviews

I'm lucky. I was trained by the author back in the late 80s and early 90s. Whilst one may think that this review to be a little biased, it's not. Back then, Marc got me got me into the best shape of my life. Now he has provided all of his knowledge about multisport training in this book.

Marc doesn't fool around with namby-pamby training voodoo. This stuff is all science. Charts, graphs, training schedules, you name it, he has it. It's up-to-date and I use it in my training.

I've done two Ironman distance races. With this book I am confidant that I can utilize the knowledge that Marc has provided and create training schedules for everything from sprint triathlons to Ironman distance races, and more.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Training Guide, March 12, 1998

By	[e-mail] (San Francico) - See all my reviews

I've started reading this. It is very, very technical and hard work but the information is great. I'm sure it will be worth it once I make my way through all the charts and calculations. It has all the information that anyone could ever want on training for the swim, cycling and running events.