Price: $35.90
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Outstanding racing performance isn’t merely a fluke; it’s a skill cultivated through dedicated training and relentless effort. In “Personal Best Running,” esteemed Coach Mark Coogan unveils his proven blueprint for achieving swift running speeds, maintaining your health and happiness, and ensuring that your life doesn’t revolve around running. Having triumphed in the running field as both an acclaimed athlete and coach, Coach Coogan has nurtured countless Olympic and champion runners. His successes stem from his conviction that sustainable running success can’t be achieved without the right training and racing environment, and running should never compromise your holistic physical or mental well-being.
Coach Coogan offers more than training schemes aimed at reducing your race time. He also provides guidance on proper sleep and nutrition habits, building a supportive social circle, mentally tackling setbacks and challenges, mitigating injury risks, and ensuring a well-rounded lifestyle. Gain both physical and psychological tactics to enhance your aerobic capacity, balance strenuous work and recovery, improve your running form, and leverage adversity to your advantage. Understand the significance of strength training and warm-up exercises, and master running drills that will elevate your running prowess.
Additionally, you’ll have access to 25 online video clips demonstrating these exercises and drills. Coogan presents a range of training schedules for different race lengths such as the mile, 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon, as well as schedules for running multiple races within a short timeframe. For each distance, you can select the length of training (from 6 weeks to 16 weeks) and weekly mileage range.
These plans are complemented with insightful training and racing tips to help you tailor the concepts to your own running strategy. You’ll also get a firsthand glimpse into the habits of successful runners as Coach Coogan shares his own experiences as a runner and coach.
Moreover, you’ll derive ample motivation and inspiration from the athletic profiles of eight of his accomplished runners, including Drew Piazza, Alexi P