| Run for Life: The Anti-Aging, Anti-Injury, Super-Fitness Plan to Keep You Running to 100 Contributor(s): Wallack, Roy M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1602393443 ISBN-13: 9781602393448 Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: A late-life fitness expert on how to keep running and running. Do you want to be healthy enough to keep running when you're sixty? Seventy? Longer? Of course you do--and being running-fit is a great way to improve your overall health and vitality, as well. Run for Life will tell you how you can do it. Wallack explains that running is an integral part of longevity, and he supplements his advice with tips on strength training and improving flexibility, fighting bone loss, preventing back pain, improving endurance, and reviving your reaction time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Running & Jogging - Health & Fitness | Exercise - General - Sports & Recreation | Health & Safety |
| Dewey: 613.717 |
| LCCN: 2008038008 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.3" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Over 35 and want to win your age group and run injury-free for the next 50 years or even longer? Run for Life lays out a plan to help you run to 100. Traveling the running world from Kenya to Tahiti and Boston to Badwater in search of the keys to super-fit running longevity, Wallack tests new running methods, products, and fitness regimens, and talks to the world's top coaches, athletes, and researchers as he develops a science-backed, time-efficient strategy for long-term running fitness. Featuring 10 extensive oral-history interviews with super-fit, all-time greats, such as Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Run for Life brims with ground-breaking innovations, including: - Soft Running: A bio-mechanical overhaul that reduces knee-shock by 50% - A Call to Arms: A cheap, simple handgrip that automatically perfects your form - HGH Strength Training: Fast, high-intensity resistance exercises that stop age-related muscle deflation and build speed, power, balance, and quick-reaction time by jacking up the natural release of human growth hormone - The Ultra Interval: Crazy-hard 20- and 30-second all-out sprints that leave you gasping and cue rapid strength increases that essentially make you younger - High-tech Water Running: New pool tools that are making champion runners faster and safer on land - Barefoot Running: How going shoeless strengthens feet, cuts shock, and adds running longevity - Yoga on the Run: A just-for-runners flexibility/warmup program designed by famed multisport yogi Steve Ilg - And much more |