Healthy Running Step by Step: Modern Methods for Injury-Free Running, Injury Prevention, and Rehab

by Roy Wallack, Robert Forster

Overview

Don’t let an old injury keep you from enjoying races, morning runs, or attaining fitness goals.
In the first part of Healthy Running Step by Step, authors Robert Forster, PT and Roy M. Wallack recommend the best training based on your fitness goals, including strength training, cross training, sprints, yoga, and rest. Part two goes a step further from other books by addressing the most modern methods of treatment—including current studies on the amount of rest required, new and controversial surgical operations and injections, the newest and most effective gear, and barefoot/minimalist running as a form of healing.
If you are recovering from an injury or want to prevent becoming injured in the first place, Healthy Running Step by Step is a must-have guide. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627880213
Publisher:	Fair Winds Press
Publication date:	06/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Roy M. Wallack wants to be fit forever. A Southern California writer, editor, and author who specializes in running, cycling, triathlon, fitness training, gear, and adventure travel, he has competed in some of the world’s toughest cycling, running, and multisport events, and has no plans to stop. A longtime fitness-gear columnist and feature writer for the Los Angeles Times, he is the former editor of Triathlete, Bicycle Guide, and California Bicyclist magazines and a contributor to a variety of magazines, including Outside, Men’s Journal, Runner’s World, Muscle & Fitness, Bicycling, Mountain Bike, Playboy, Competitor, Consumer’s Digest, and others. Convinced that staying fit is one of the keys to happiness and that we all can be lifelong athletes, Roy has authored and coauthored several books that lay out plans for high-level, long-term fitness: Barefoot Running Step by Step (2011); Be a Better Runner (2011), Run for Life: The Breakthrough Plan for Fast Times, Fewer Injuries, and Spectacular Lifelong Fitness (2009), Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100 (2005), and The Traveling Cyclist: 20 Worldwide Tours of Discovery (1991), which describes his thousands of miles of bike trips around the world, including the first one into the Soviet Union, in 1988. A former collegiate wrestler, Roy has competed in hundreds of running, cycling, and triathlon races and has participated in some of the world’s toughest endurance events, such as the Himalayan 100-mile Stage Race; Badwater Ultramarathon; the weeklong Eco-Challenge and Primal Quest adventure races; the 750-mile (1,200 km) Paris-Brest-Paris randonée; and epic multiday mountain-bike stage races, including TransAlp and TransRockies Challenges, La Ruta de los Conquistadores, BC Bike Race, and the Breck Epic. He was inducted into the 24 Hours of Adrenalin Solo Hall of Fame in 2008 and finished second in the World Fitness Championship in 2004.

Robert Forster, PT, has practiced Sports Physical Therapy in Santa Monica, CA, for 31 years. Robert has lectured throughout the US and Europe on Sports Rehabilitation and safety in exercise. Robert served as a private physical therapist at four Olympic Games for Olympians Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence “Flo-Jo” Joyner, Alyson Felix and their teammates who have won a combined 32 Olympic Medals under his direct care. He also worked pro athletes Pete Sampras, Kobe Bryant, Elton Brand, Maria Sharapova, as well as M.M.A. champions including B.J. Penn. Robert has published several articles in the scientific press and co-authored The Complete Water Power Workout Book published in 1993 by Random House. He has also written a regular column in Triathlete magazine, appeared in several episodes of the popular Fit to Hit series on the Tennis Channel and recently created the Herbalife 24 Fit Exercise Video for the world’s leading weight loss company.