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Summary: An absolute must for every runner!
Review: This book was the reason I got interested in running in the first place, and 4 years later I am about to run my first Comrades Marathon (90km). It has provided me with just about all the information I ever needed on the subject of running and I can not imagine being without it. Buy it! You won't be sorry.
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Summary: Not _the_ book
Review: This certainly is a comprehensive book about running but I wouldn't call it THE book like many people have. I've found this book most useful for diagnosing and treating injuries but what comes to the training sections, it wasn't written with the competetive athlete in mind. Noakes gives all the usual research about VO2max and running economy but I think he unfortunately doesn't take the knowledge to the level of the average runner. In other words, he doesn't give the principles of training plain and simple, put into schedules, like some other books do. I'm not saying that this is a bad book or that you shouldn't buy it, I'm just saying that it's maybe not THE book of running. If you are looking for comprehensive training information get another book but if you just want a comprehensive book about running, you can do well with this book.
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Summary: Not _the_ book
Review: This certainly is a comprehensive book about running but I wouldn't call it THE book like many people have. I've found this book most useful for diagnosing and treating injuries but what comes to the training sections, it wasn't written with the competetive athlete in mind. Noakes gives all the usual research about VO2max and running economy but I think he unfortunately doesn't take the knowledge to the level of the average runner. In other words, he doesn't give the principles of training plain and simple, put into schedules, like some other books do. I'm not saying that this is a bad book or that you shouldn't buy it, I'm just saying that it's maybe not THE book of running. If you are looking for comprehensive training information get another book but if you just want a comprehensive book about running, you can do well with this book.
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Summary: An excellent resource!
Review: This is a very good book. Almost every aspect of running is covered in detail. Noakes is able to convey the technical side of running without overwhelming the reader. Whatever your fitness level, this book will help you improve.
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Summary: From a guy who makes a living from coaching running
Review: This is an absolute must. It is excellent in the exercise physiology department which is the bases of a successful performance. It is like a map which has all the information one needs to succeed, (pending on ones genetic makeover as well as the other little bits and bobs)however, that map is only as good as the map reader.Also if you are studying exercise physiology or sports science, biomechanics etc. it has loads of references which are great to sling in the back of the bibliography...ooophs. Finally I have a library of over 200 running books and if I had to take one to my grave this would be it.
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Summary: The best book on running ever written
Review: This is without doubt the best book ever written on the topic of long-distance running. Although it is very enjoyable read throughout, it goes into far greater sceintific and practical detail than any other book I have encountered in fifteen years of running. It is, and will remain, a classic.
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Summary: Excellent source of information for runners
Review: Tim Noakes book is well written and packed with information. He backs up everything he says with numerous references to scientific studies. I bought it because I wanted to read the chapter about running injuries. This book is not casual reading, but it has lots of good information.
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Summary: Excellent source of information for runners
Review: Tim Noakes book is well written and packed with information. He backs up everything he says with numerous references to scientific studies. I bought it because I wanted to read the chapter about running injuries. This book is not casual reading, but it has lots of good information.
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Summary: The Best Running Book ever!
Review: What more can I say? I wasn't a runner till I read this book
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