Running Science Author: Visit Amazon's Owen Anderson Page | Language: English | ISBN:
073607418X | Format: PDF
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About the Author
Owen Anderson, PhD, has been a regular contributor to Runner’s World, Shape, Men’s Health, Peak Performance, National Geographic Adventure, and Sports Injury Bulletin. He has written extensively on the topics of running training, strength training for running, sports nutrition, and injury prevention, and he developed the neural system of training, which diminishes the emphasis on mileage and promotes the use of high-quality running and the progression of running-specific strength training to achieve optimal running fitness.
Anderson is the founder of Lansing Sports Management, which coaches elite athletes from Kenya and manages their international competitions. He has enjoyed a successful career coaching runners of all levels, including notables such as Benjamin Simatei, the winner of the Park Forest 10-mile race in Chicago, Illinois, and Chemtai Rionotukei, who in 2012 and 2013 has six victories, two course records, and 14 top-four finishes in U.S. road races, including a win at the 2013 Fifth Third River Bank 25K.
Anderson is the race director of the annual Lansing Marathon, Lansing Half Marathon, and Ekiden Relay. In addition, he hosts running camps throughout the U.S., including the Lansing Marathon Running Camp in Thetford Center, Vermont. Anderson is also the CEO of Lansing Moves the World, a nonprofit foundation that coordinates three projects, including an after school program for Lansing children age 9 to 14, a tree planting program in east Africa, and a program for families and children victimized by the recent violence in the Tana River Delta district of Kenya.
Anderson was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship and completed his PhD at Michigan State University.
- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Human Kinetics (July 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 073607418X
- ISBN-13: 978-0736074186
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Running Science by Dr. Owen Anderson is exactly what it claims to be: a science textbook on running. Anderson has reviewed a large chunk of (if not all of) the scientific literature on running published in the last 30 years and has come up with surprising results. With the data to back him, he dispels myriad common running beliefs, from the role that lactic acid plays in the muscles (it's not what you think) to the benefits of advances in running-shoe technology (next to nothing, as it turns out) to the effectiveness of the vaunted weekly long run (minimal value for increasing endurance). Indeed, the method of training he espouses in this book is almost certainly unlike anything you've ever come across. I was a competitive runner for a number of years, and I learned something new or had misconceptions challenged on nearly every page.
A few notes to the potential reader:
-This book is definitely written for the serious runner or perhaps medical student! A recreational runner could take and apply elements of Anderson's book to improve his or her training, but the book is really aimed at the runner who wants to maximize race times--and this is a goal not all runners share.
-You won't find a series of training plans that you can pick from in this book. There is a sample half-marathon plan, and that is it. However, if you read the book, you will have the knowledge to create your own, and Anderson does provide sample workouts at times in the body of the text. To his credit, he provides fully illustrated guides for all of his weight and form exercises.
-You will need access to a gym with weights, a treadmill or indoor track, and possibly a pool or bike to really implement Anderson's training methodology.
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