Women's complete guide to running
Edition
3rd ed.
Publication Information
Indianapolis : Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2011.
Physical Description
232 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
Offers a step-by-step running program specifically designed for the needs and concerns of women, and includes tips on staying motivated, building endurance, and strengthening muscles.
Contents
- "I could never see myself sweating"
- Woman-specific exercise issues / by Barbara Galloway
- Family and friend issues / by Barbara Galloway
- Getting kids or adults into exercise: proven suggestions, programs, how to be a coach --No more excuses: destroying most of them
- Heroes: former non-exercisers who inspire us
- What does the research say?
- What happens to us as we get "in shape"
- What do you need to get started?
- A trip to the running store
- Getting started
- Your first week: how to begin and continue
- Training programs for beginning runners (including a fat-burning program)
- The Galloway run-walk-run method
- Why does your body want to hold onto fat?
- Why some people burn a lot more fat
- Fat burning training: (for the rest of your life)
- The income side of the equation
- Good blood sugar = motivation
- An exerciser's diet
- Nutrition advice from Nancy Clark
- Running form
- Staying injury free
- Your first race
- Stretching
- Strengthening
- Cross-training
- Dealing with the heat
- Problems/solutions
- Injury troubleshooting (as one exerciser to another)
- Mental toughness
- Clothing thermometer
- Fabulously full figured?
- Major differences as you get older
- Products that enhance running.