Daniels' Running Formula

Train for you next race with the man who has been called "the world's best running coach." Legendary running coach and exercise physiologist Dr. Jack Daniels shares his renowned, research-tested, and results-proven VDOT system to guide you through training at exactly the right intensity to run longer, stronger, and faster. This fourth edition of Daniels' Running Formula is more comprehensive and applicable than ever. Not only has Daniels' revolutionary system been refined, providing more precise training pace plans, but new insights and prescriptions from his acclaimed Run SMART Project are incorporated throughout. Choose a program to get in shape, target a race program, or regain conditioning after injury. Train for competition with programs for 800-meter races, 5Ks to 30Ks, marathons, and triathlons. Each program incorporates training intensities to help you build endurance, strength, and speed. You'll learn to track the time you spent at each level, trail more efficiently, and optimize results. In this new edition, you'll also find expanded sections on treadmill training, training at high altitudes, and training in challenging environments as well as new chapters on training for ultradistance events and triathlons. There is even more guidance on setting up a seasonal plan with phases and adaptations to ensure the best raining and racing experience each years. It's all here-the formula, the training, the advice-in this definitive edition of this classic, essential work. Join the thousands of runners who have relied on Jack Daniels to help them reach their peak running performance. Using the programs outlined in Daniels' Running Formula, you too can achieve the results you seek every time you train and race.

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Daniels' Running Formula

Train for you next race with the man who has been called "the world's best running coach." Legendary running coach and exercise physiologist Dr. Jack Daniels shares his renowned, research-tested, and results-proven VDOT system to guide you through training at exactly the right intensity to run longer, stronger, and faster. This fourth edition of Daniels' Running Formula is more comprehensive and applicable than ever. Not only has Daniels' revolutionary system been refined, providing more precise training pace plans, but new insights and prescriptions from his acclaimed Run SMART Project are incorporated throughout. Choose a program to get in shape, target a race program, or regain conditioning after injury. Train for competition with programs for 800-meter races, 5Ks to 30Ks, marathons, and triathlons. Each program incorporates training intensities to help you build endurance, strength, and speed. You'll learn to track the time you spent at each level, trail more efficiently, and optimize results. In this new edition, you'll also find expanded sections on treadmill training, training at high altitudes, and training in challenging environments as well as new chapters on training for ultradistance events and triathlons. There is even more guidance on setting up a seasonal plan with phases and adaptations to ensure the best raining and racing experience each years. It's all here-the formula, the training, the advice-in this definitive edition of this classic, essential work. Join the thousands of runners who have relied on Jack Daniels to help them reach their peak running performance. Using the programs outlined in Daniels' Running Formula, you too can achieve the results you seek every time you train and race.

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Daniels' Running Formula

Daniels' Running Formula

by Jack Daniels
Daniels' Running Formula

Daniels' Running Formula

by Jack Daniels

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Train for you next race with the man who has been called "the world's best running coach." Legendary running coach and exercise physiologist Dr. Jack Daniels shares his renowned, research-tested, and results-proven VDOT system to guide you through training at exactly the right intensity to run longer, stronger, and faster. This fourth edition of Daniels' Running Formula is more comprehensive and applicable than ever. Not only has Daniels' revolutionary system been refined, providing more precise training pace plans, but new insights and prescriptions from his acclaimed Run SMART Project are incorporated throughout. Choose a program to get in shape, target a race program, or regain conditioning after injury. Train for competition with programs for 800-meter races, 5Ks to 30Ks, marathons, and triathlons. Each program incorporates training intensities to help you build endurance, strength, and speed. You'll learn to track the time you spent at each level, trail more efficiently, and optimize results. In this new edition, you'll also find expanded sections on treadmill training, training at high altitudes, and training in challenging environments as well as new chapters on training for ultradistance events and triathlons. There is even more guidance on setting up a seasonal plan with phases and adaptations to ensure the best raining and racing experience each years. It's all here-the formula, the training, the advice-in this definitive edition of this classic, essential work. Join the thousands of runners who have relied on Jack Daniels to help them reach their peak running performance. Using the programs outlined in Daniels' Running Formula, you too can achieve the results you seek every time you train and race.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781718203662
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Publication date: 03/19/2021
Edition description: Fourth Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Jack Daniels has been called the world’s best coach by Runner’s World magazine. He has more than 50 years of experience coaching and mentoring some of world’s top distance runners at both the collegiate and postcollegiate levels, including Jim Ryun, Penny Werthner, Ken Martin, Jerry Lawson, Alicia Shay, Peter Gilmore, Lisa Martin, Magdalena Lewy Boulet, and Janet Cherobon—Bawcom. He also won two Olympic medals and one world championship medal in the men’s modern pentathlon.

Daniels has decades of experience as a track and cross country coach at institutions such as Oklahoma City University, the University of Texas, Brevard College, and the State University of New York at Cortland. Under his guidance, Cortland runners won 8 NCAA Division III national championships, 30 individual national titles, and more than 130 All—America awards. He was named Women’s Cross Country Coach of the 20th Century by the NCAA Division III.

Since 1997 Daniels has been the national running coach advisor for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program, which involves coaching thousands of marathon runners each year. He has also enjoyed coaching members of the Nike Farm Team and the Chasquis, a group of Peruvian marathoners.

Daniels has logged years of graduate study and research on distance running in both the United States and Sweden. He holds a doctoral degree in exercise physiology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He also studied exercise science at the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute in Stockholm under renowned sport scientist Per—Olaf Åstrand.

In recent years, Daniels has been an associate professor in the human movement program at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, in addition to coaching Olympic runners.

Of all his accomplishments, Daniels is most proud of his two daughters and being married to his wife, Nancy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Part I Understanding the Formula for Training

Chapter 1 Essentials of Running Success 3

Chapter 2 Training Principles and Tips 15

Chapter 3 Physiological and Personal Training Profiles 35

Chapter 4 Types of Training and Intensities 49

Chapter 5 VDOT System of Training 73

Chapter 6 Environment-and Altitute-Specific Training 97

Chapter 7 Treadmill Training 113

Chapter 8 Fitness Training 123

Chapter 9 Training Breaks and Supplemental Training 135

Part II Applying the Formula to Competitive Events

Chapter 10 Season-Tailored Training 151

Chapter 11 800 Meters 163

Chapter 12 1,500 Meters to 2 Miles 177

Chapter 13 5K and 10K 193

Chapter 14 Cross Country 211

Chapter 15 15K to 30K 225

Chapter 16 Marathon 229

Chapter 17 Ultradistance 279

Chapter 18 Triathlon 285

Appendix: Time and Pace Conversions 291

Glossary 295

Index 297

About the Author 307

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