Description
Are you a triathlete, runner, cyclist, swimmer, cross-country skier, or other athlete seeking greater endurance? The Endurance Handbook teaches athletes how to stay healthy, achieve optimal athletic potential, and be injury-free for many productive years. Dr. Philip Maffetone’s approach to endurance offers a truly individualized” outlook and unique system that he has refined over three decades of training and treating athletes, ranging from world champions to weekend warriors. Maffetone’s training and racing philosophy emphasizes building a strong aerobic base for increased fat burning, weight loss, sustained energy, and a healthy immune system. Good nutrition and stress reduction are also key to this common-sense, big-picture approach.
Dr. Maffetone also dispels many of the commonly held myths that linger in participatory sportsand which adversely impact performanceand explains the truths” about endurance, such as:
The need to train slower to race faster will enable your aerobic system to improve endurance
Why expensive running shoes can actually cause foot and leg injuries
The fact that refined carbohydrates actually reduce endurance energy and disrupt hormone balance
How overtraining can be avoided in its earliest stages
And much more!
If you are looking to increase your endurance and maximize your athletic potential, The Endurance Handbook is your one-stop guide to training and racing effectively.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.
In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Michael Henderson –
I will read any book that Dr. Phil M. writes. Always adhere to his sound advice.
CarMul –
A friend recommended Phil Maffetone for my training. I am training by his method since June and I find this book and also his Big Book of Endurance running invaluable. I have read this book numerous times and refer back it regularly. I find all his books overlap with the exact same information but all his books also complement each other too for the full Maffetone experience. My only negative is that he writes very much from American perspective…so sometimes is does not translate well as I am a European and our food culture and legislation can be vastly different – I feel he should write more generically and be more inclusive to all nations, as we are all the same at the end of the day, and his method works for everyone, not just the American market.
Lynda K –
Excellent in-depth info needed to become more healthy, provides life long habits for not just getting fitter, but doing while being healthy too. A must for an athlete wanting to live long healthily.
Southy –
Great read
Jmc –
The big red book and the big yellow book. Could be wrong, but I think all the information in the many books he has written Is all in these two books.
And I do encourage absolutely everyone to read these two books, because you will get healthier, happier, fitter and calmer.
You will also acquire much, much less injury to your body! You will still get injured if you are a avid runner of course at some point, but just much less especially for us older folks.
The best thing it did for me is made me look forward to my runs each day instead of dreading them on many days.
Out of all the many , many health and fitness books I have read throughout the years, I’m in my 60s now, these two books the red and the yellow and Phil’s methods are the very best!