Developing Endurance

This book is probably best for coaches or the extremely motivated athlete. It starts with a lot if interesting, albeit over my head biology, and then goes into a lot of detail about endurance and how it is achieved and what it is good for. As with all of the great Human Kinetics books it includes training plans for various distance sport events, however the running ones are rather hardcore for a beginner or intermediate runner and are 6-month training programs. As a long distance runner of over 6 years I was looking forward to this book, but it made me feel overwhelmed. I would, however, hope to someday hire a coach who has read this book!!

I was so excited to receive this book! After months and months of weightlifting and little cardio, I decided that I wanted to boost what short endurance spurts I had in order to raise my overall endurance level. I was a little overwhelmed when I turned to the ultramarathon page and saw a 75+ mile training schedule - not exactly what I had in mind. However, the book also lists perfect training schedules for 5k races and 10k races. Perfect! The book is easy to use and the schedules are spelled out for the reader. Best of all, the beginning of the book explains why the schedules are used, why some days are more difficult than others, how the body works, etc. This is exactly what I was looking for and I highly recommend it to others.

This is the bible on everything from cardio, weight training, and nutrition. I recommend this book for anyone that wants a detailed plan to go from casual workouts to major athlete.

Developing Endurance is a valuable book for athletes of all fitness levels engaged in endurance sports, and for those that coach them.

The physiology of endurance and training is thoroughly covered, followed by testing and assessments. Training principles and planning, nutrition, free weights, machine exercises, and resistance training are all explained.

Developing Endurance specifically addresses swimming, running, cycling, and triathlon, and provides training plans for each sport. This is a detailed and comprehensive science-based training manual for endurance athletes. It provides knowledge that will help anyone create and use a training program and improve their performance in a number of endurance sports.

This book is amazing if you don't know much about cardio but work out as an amateur like me. Easy to understand. I highly recommend it.

Endurance is important for all athletes. “Developing Endurance” shows you how to build your stamina through aerobic, anaerobic, and resistance training. Written by 11 top experts in the National Strength and Conditioning Association, it is an impressive work, teaching background information, exercises, drills, workouts and programs for ultimate results. There are assessment tools, analyses and instruction to define specific needs and establish your training goals. Armed with these tools, you can create your own ideal personalized training program for your sport and avoid performance plateaus, while taking your performance to the highest level as quickly as possible. Physiology, sport nutrition, running, cycling, swimming, triathlon show more all have their own chapters teeming with even more information to assist you in achieving excellence in endurance and stamina. show less

Just right! We are over 50 & found plenty of helpful information to get ahead in our healthy lifestyle. Like the photos, helpful graphs & user friendly index. Recommended to all interested folks.