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"""With Speed on Skates, Barry Publow gets right to the heart of serious training. There is no fluff in this comprehensive effort, which is full of outstanding insights for new skaters, while offering concrete advice for professional athletes. Speed on Skates is the first book to cover both in-line and ice racing. From technique to drills, intervals, and skating competitively, Speed on Skates will become a must for every skater's library."""
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"""This book contains everything you need to know about skating, whether you are an experienced racer or just getting started in the sport."""
Derek D. Parra
U.S. National Team Member, Long Track Speedskating
18 world titles and 2 world records
1998 Olympian
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Become a smoother, faster, and better-conditioned skater—on asphalt and on ice. Speed on Skates provides detailed instruction and drills to master basic to advanced techniques for every speedskating discipline—in-line, long-track, short-track, marathon skating.
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"""With Speed on Skates, Barry Publow gets right to the heart of serious training. There is no fluff in this comprehensive effort, which is full of outstanding insights for new skaters, while offering concrete advice for professional athletes. Speed on Skates is the first book to cover both in-line and ice racing. From technique to drills, intervals, and skating competitively, Speed on Skates will become a must for every skater's library."""
Lauri Muir
Publisher and Editor
Fitness and Speed Skating Times
"""This book contains everything you need to know about skating, whether you are an experienced racer or just getting started in the sport."""
Derek D. Parra
U.S. National Team Member, Long Track Speedskating
18 world titles and 2 world records
1998 Olympian
"
Product Description
Become a smoother, faster, and better-conditioned skater—on asphalt and on ice. Speed on Skates provides detailed instruction and drills to master basic to advanced techniques for every speedskating discipline—in-line, long-track, short-track, marathon skating.
Elite skater and coach Barry Publow explains
• the mechanics of efficient skating form,
• training exercises and schedules for achieving optimal performance, and
• racing strategies and tactics that will give you an edge in competition.
Equally valuable for inexperienced competitors and elite racers, Speed on Skates is the best and most complete guide to speedskating technique, training, and racing. Get smart, get your skates, and get going—faster than ever!
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skating intervals, support leg skate, preseason microcycle, relative muscular endurance, outside wheel edge, skate angled, recovery skate, push displacement, skate leaps, endurance skating, support skate, microcycle structure, anaerobic lactic system, transition subphase, board skating, solo skater, pushing skate, team skaters, passing skater, push mechanics, scissors drill, marathon skating, stroke cadence, glide phase, glide leg Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In any sport we usually admire those athletes who are the best. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skating intervals, support leg skate, preseason microcycle, relative muscular endurance, outside wheel edge, skate angled, recovery skate, push displacement, skate leaps, endurance skating, support skate, microcycle structure, anaerobic lactic system, transition subphase, board skating, solo skater, pushing skate, team skaters, passing skater, push mechanics, scissors drill, marathon skating, stroke cadence, glide phase, glide leg Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Championships, Ingen Schenau, United States, Advanced Drill Progression, North America, Pan American Games, Time Pts, Allen Hedrick, Department of Kinesiology New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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