Daniels' Running Formula 3rd Edition By Jack Daniels

Jack Daniels was named the world’s best running coach by Runner’s World magazine, and his best-selling book, Daniels’ Running Formula, shows you why. Whether your race of choice is the 800 meters, the marathon, or anything in between, Daniels’ Running Formula, Third Edition, offers a proven recipe for success.

Get in the best shape of your running career with the help of Daniels’ Running Formula, the book that Runner’s World magazine calls the best training book. Premier running coach Jack Daniels provides you with his legendary VDOT formula to guide you through training at exactly the right intensity to run stronger, longer, and faster.

Choose a program to get in shape, target a race program, or regain conditioning after layoff or injury. Train for competition with programs for 800 meters, 1500 meters to 2 miles, cross country races, 5K to 10K, 15K to 30K, and marathon events. Each program incorporates training intensities to help you build endurance, strength, and speed. With Daniels’ Running Formula, you’ll track the time you spend at each level, train more efficiently, and optimize results.

Completely updated with new chapters on altitude training, seasonal programming, and treadmill training, Daniels’ Running Formula, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive, accessible, and instantly applicable edition to date. Customizable to your current fitness level, competition goals, and schedule, the formula is the ideal solution for any race, anywhere, anytime.

Whether training or competing, get the results you’re seeking every time you lace up with the workouts and programs detailed in Daniels’ Running Formula.


Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Ingredients of Running Success
Chapter 2: Running Physiology and Breathing Rate
Chapter 3: Aerobic Training and Running Profiles
Chapter 4: VDOT Values
Chapter 5: Run Training Intensities
Chapter 6: Altitude Training
Chapter 7: Season Training Plan
Chapter 8: Running for Fitness
Chapter 9: Training to Race
Chapter 10: 800-Meter Training
Chapter 11: 1,500-Meter to Two-Mile Training
Chapter 12: 5K to 10K Training
Chapter 13: Cross Country Training
Chapter 14: 15K to 30K Training
Chapter 15: Marathon Training

Released 2014
320 Pages


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.

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.