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    Weight Training for Running: The Ultimate Guide
    Weight Training for Running: The Ultimate Guide
    Weight Training for Running: The Ultimate Guide
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    Weight Training for Running: The Ultimate Guide

    By Rob Price

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    Weight Training for Running is the most comprehensive and up-to-date running-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by runners worldwide. This book features year-round running-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

    No other running book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book enables runners of all skill levels to increase their endurance, stamina, speed and strength. By following the programs contained in this book, you will no longer run out of gas before the race is over, but instead you will be able to sprint at record paces until the finish line.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrice World Publishing
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781936910144
    Weight Training for Running: The Ultimate Guide

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      Weight Training for Running - Rob Price

      SUCCESS

      INTRODUCTION

      By opening Weight Training for Running, you have taken your first step towards achieving your athletic potential. This book is loaded with the most up-to-date sports weight-training information and features a year-round running-specific weight-training program. Upon completion of the text, you will know how to properly, safely, and effectively perform over 80 exercises and you will be ready to begin your training.

      The most important part of this book is the running-specific weight- training program itself, which begins on page 6. This program was created for one reason and one reason only: to improve your running potential. It does this by increasing your strength, endurance, and flexibility in the parts of your body that are most important for running. This program was designed to supply you with the advantage you will need to outperform your opponents. By following this program, you will build your muscles with endurance and stamina. When called upon, you will be physically prepared and mentally ready to compete at the highest of your potential.

      Although running is primarily a sport focusing on leg strength and endurance, certain upper-body muscle groups should not be ignored in order to achieve your maximum potential. This book does not overlook the importance of these muscle groups and has you training your entire body ignore.

      This book does not teach you how to perform specific movements. It does not show you the best strategies to perfect your running technique, nor does it give you any tips to improve your specific running skills. This book does, however, provide you with the best methods, programs, and strategies available to physically improve your body and maximize your running potential.

      OFF-SEASON TRAINING

      The off-season is the time in any sport to build up your muscles, become more powerful, and increase muscular endurance. The off-season program consists of four 4-week routines cycled together to maximize both muscular endurance and explosive-power. The first and third routines are designed to build your stamina and muscular endurance, while the second and fourth routines are designed more for power and explosion.

      Variation is very important to an effective workout program. Varying your routines keeps you making progress and gains. Your body eventually will adapt to any routine it’s on, so it is very important to change routines once your gains have stopped and your strength has peaked. Changing programs every four-weeks is the most effective time period to follow any one routine. For more information on the importance of variation to weight training, see the section The Declaration of Variation.

      During the off-season, you must supplement your weight-training activities with some sort of running-specific activities to keep your body in proper shape.

      MUSCULAR ENDURANCE TRAINING

      The first and third routines of the off-season cycle are to enhance your muscular endurance. Weight-training for muscular endurance differs greatly from strength and power training. Strength training builds up size, bulk, and strength; power training builds explosion, speed, and intensity; and endurance training builds your stamina by enabling your muscles to work longer without fatiguing. Weight-training to increase your muscular endurance requires many slow movement repetitions to train and build your slow-twitch muscle fibers, which are responsible for increased endurance and stamina.

      The keys to endurance training are as follows:

      Low weight, high reps:

      Proper endurance training calls for lifting light weights many times. Weights that are less than 60% of your one-rep max are ideal. With more repetitions comes increased muscular endurance, or the ability of your muscles to operate at a high level over time. Every additional repetition helps to increase your muscular endurance. Typically, sets involving at least 20 repetitions are considered to be training your muscular endurance.

      Proper breathing:

      Breathing properly is extremely important in endurance training. As you perform repetition after repetition, your instincts will be to hold your breath. With each and every rep, be sure to inhale while lowering the weight on the eccentric movement and exhale while raising the weights on the concentric movement. Never hold your breath.

      Smooth rhythmic lifts:

      In endurance training, the lowering, negative part, of every rep should last at least two seconds and the raising, positive part, should be at least one second.

      The goal is to keep this rhythm from your first rep to your last to ensure a great workout.

      Short rest times:

      To get the most out of endurance training, it is best if you take short rest times between sets. This gives lifting aerobic benefits because it leads toa more continuous, less sporadic workout, which keeps your heart rate up. To ensure optimal results while training for endurance, take no more than sixty seconds of rest time between sets.

      EXPLOSIVE-POWER TRAINING

      The second and fourth routines of the cycle are designed to build speed and explosive-power. The important aspects to explosive-power training are:

      Medium weights, medium reps: Training for power is quite different than training for strength. For strength training, the idea is to lift heavy weights a low number of times. Contrastingly, decreasing the weight-load and lifting between eight and fifteen repetitions is the best way to successfully train for power and explosion.

      Speed and intensity: With power training, the goal is to increase the speed while lifting. Before increasing the load, you want to increase the speed at which you are performing the concentric part, or positive phase of the lift. If the load begins to feel extremely light, then follow the steps listed in When to Increase section for increasing the resistance.

      There are certain exercises, however, that should never be performed with speed and intensity due to the possibility of injury, or because fast movements are not as effective as slow ones. Exercises listed in our programs that should never be lifted with speed and intensity are:

      1. Lower back exercises

      2. Rotator cuff exercises

      3. Mid-section exercises

      Great Form: Similar to endurance training, the lowering of the weight should be smooth and slow for at least two seconds. The difference comes on the concentric part of the lift. For power training you want to raise the weights as fast and explosively as possible, working your fast-twitch muscle fibers with the goal of increasing the speed with which you can contract and move your muscles. While following power-building routines, you are required to perform the concentric part of every rep in every set with intensity and speed. On a very important note, however, you must be sure to not sacrifice form for speed.

      Power exercises: Certain exercises are most beneficial and most effectively performed with speed and intensity. Olympic lifts such as push presses and power cleans, as well as body weight exercises like dips and pull-ups, are examples because they can be performed extremely fast with enormous amounts of intensity.

      You are required to perform several exercises for endurance during the power-building phase of the cycle, ensuring that, upon completion of the first explosive-power training routine, you will be able to start the second endurance-building program without losing any endurance gains and with dramatically increased explosion and power.

      RUNNING OFF-SEASON PROGRAM

      Endurance and Power Cycle

      Weeks 1-4 Endurance Training

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