Running Tough

Book Description:

Distance running success is achieved one way—through hard and smart training. Are you ready for the challenge? If so, Running Tough is for you. Running experts Bill Rodgers, Libbie Hickman, Frank Shorter, Arthur Lydiard, Ron Clarke, Emil Zatopek, and Craig Masback share the details and secrets of their most challenging workout sessions and why they are so effective.

Running Tough organizes the 75 workouts by training goals to create a serious runner’s handbook. You will learn how to increase your speed with interval workouts, strengthen your legs with off-road training, heal your muscles while maintaining aerobic fitness, and much more. This goal-oriented format allows you to develop a customized training plan using the most appropriate workouts for training and racing.

Use Running Tough to enhance your training programs, break through plateaus in your workouts, and meet new challenges. You’ll train more efficiently, more intensely, and more wisely.