Runner's World Your Best Stride


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Run the Way You Were Born to Run Every runner wants a smooth, light, powerful, and resilient stride. But there isn't one ideal form all runners should try to emulate. Instead, research and experience show that people can run effectively in a wide variety of patterns with some universal elements. In lively, accessible prose, author Jonathan Beverly details his search for common ground among physical therapists, podiatrists, biomechanics researchers, and coaches, and reveals how individual runners can apply those principles and improve their performance, avoid injury, and enhance their enjoyment on the run. With specific, illustrated exercises that show how to counteract tight muscles from excessive sitting, improve limited arm mobility from hunching over electronic devices, strengthen your feet for better balance, and improve speed by lengthening your stride, Runner's World Your Best Stride is an approachable guide to human movement and a practical tool for improved running performance.




Run Strong, Stay Hungry


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In Run Strong, Stay Hungry, running journalist Jonathan Beverly reveals the secrets of veteran racers who are still racing fast and loving the sport decades after they got their start. Beverly collects the habits and mindsets of more than 50 runners including Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Deena Kastor, Benji Durden, Colleen De Reuck, Dave Dunham, Kathrine Switzer, and Roger Robinson. Run Strong, Stay Hungry shares 9 keys from these veteran racers that let them keep running strong and staying hungry for competition. Are they biomechanically gifted? Stubborn? Simply lucky to have avoided injury? Turns out, there’s a lot more to it. In his comprehensive research, Beverly discovers that these runners all share specific perspectives and habits that allow them to adapt to changing life circumstances, accept declining abilities, and rebound from setbacks. These keys not only keep them on their feet, but also allow them to continue to draw the same enjoyment from the sport whether they are winning championships or finishing in the middle of the pack, cranking out 100-mile weeks and doing blazing speed work on the track, or squeezing in just enough miles into a busy schedule to simply feel fit and fast and occasionally test that fitness in a race. Beverly interviews over 50 runners including Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Deena Kastor, Benji Durden, Colleen De Reuck, Dave Dunham, Kathrine Switzer, and Roger Robinson. From training methods to mental attitudes to finding community among their fellow runners, there are specific keys that help these masters runners to adapt, accept, and rebound from the hurdles that life and aging put in their path. By adopting the practices of these lifetime competitors, you too can enjoy a lifelong, healthy running career as well as boost your enjoyment of running and your racing performance.




Heart Rate Training


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Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, helps athletes and fitness enthusiasts use the data captured by heart rate monitors to create and customize training programs that improve performance.




Unknown Quantity


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Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages-and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting for. "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain. Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics-it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us. Algebraists broke new ground when they discarded the simple search for solutions to equations and concentrated instead on abstract groups. This dramatic shift in thinking revolutionized mathematics. Written for those among us who are unencumbered by a fear of formulae, Unknown Quantity delivers on its promise to present a history of algebra. Astonishing in its bold presentation of the math and graced with narrative authority, our journey through the world of algebra is at once intellectually satisfying and pleasantly challenging.







Fast After 50


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Fast After 50 is for every endurance athlete who wants to stay fast for years to come. For runners, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, and cross-country skiers, getting older doesn’t have to mean getting slower. Drawing from the most current research on aging and sports performance, Joe Friel--America’s leading endurance sports coach--shows how athletes can race strong and stay healthy well past age 50. In his groundbreaking book Fast After 50, Friel offers a smart approach for athletes to ward off the effects of age. Friel shows athletes how to extend their racing careers for decades--and race to win. Fast After 50 presents guidelines for high-intensity workouts, focused strength training, recovery, crosstraining, and nutrition for high performance: How the body’s response to training changes with age, how to adapt your training plan, and how to avoid overtraining How to shed body fat and regain muscle density How to create a progressive plan for training, rest, recovery, and competition Workout guidelines, field tests, and intensity measurement In Fast After 50, Joe Friel shows athletes that age is just a number--and race results are the only numbers that count. With contributions from: Mark Allen, Gale Bernhardt, Amby Burfoot, Dr. Larry Creswell, John Howard, Dr. Tim Noakes, Ned Overend, Dr. John Post, Dr. Andrew Pruitt, and Lisa Rainsberger.




Running Doc's Guide to Healthy Running


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Running Doc's comprehensive book on running injuries can help you solve your aches and pains for years of healthy running. For a runner, injury is a terrible fate. Yet every year, nearly half of America's runners suffer an injury severe enough to bring them to a halt. Trust the Running Doc to get you back on your feet. Dr. Lewis G. Maharam, MD, is the most trusted authority on running health and running injuries, and his guide will help you avoid or fix nearly every common running-related injury. If you're already injured, Running Doc's book will help you diagnose, treat, and recover to run pain-free. From head to toenails, Running Doc's Guide to Healthy Running is the most comprehensive guide to running injuries and preventative care. Running Doc offers simple, effective treatments for every common running injury and also delivers easy-to-follow advice on the best way to prepare for and enjoy running events of all types and distances. Running Doc's Guide to Healthy Running addresses: How running is good for your health Healthy training programs for races and running events Choosing running shoes for your gait and feet Guidelines for running in cold weather, hot weather, and dry climates Safe and healthy marathon and half-marathon training Running with a cold, the flu, and aches and pains Feet and ankle injuries including plantar fasciitis, Lisfranc, sprains Legs and knee injuries including Runner's Knee, IT Band Syndrome, tendinitis Back pain from sciatica, piriformis syndrome, and related issues No matter your malady, Running Doc has got you covered. Get healthy and get back on your feet with Running Doc's Guide to Healthy Running.




Fitbit Versa 2 User Manual


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A Comprehensive User Guide with Diagrams and Images to Guide you in operating your Fitbit Versa 2 as well as Other Models including the Versa Lite, Fitbit Iconic, Charge 3, Surge and Blaze. Are you in search of a sleek, light and comfortable smartwatch that helps you to keep track of your heartbeats, weight, pulses, menstrual cycle, and other amazing features? Then you should get the Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch. The Fitbit company launched the Fitbit Versa 2 in September 2019 with new features like an improved screen, Amazon Alexa support, new sleep tracking functions, and longer battery life. These new additions to the Fitbit Versa smartwatch have helped to make it a strong competitor to Apple and Samsung who are currently leading in the smartwatch industry. In this user guide, you would find detailed guide on how to explore feature on your Versa 2 smartwatch like a Pro. The user guide also covers the other models of the Fitbit watch including the Versa Lite edition, Fitbit Iconic, Charge 3, Surge and Blaze. Whether you are just buying a new Fitbit Versa or looking for updated tips and tricks for your existing device, this book has all you need to achieve more productivity on your Fitbit devices. Some of the things you would learn in this book include: How to Setup Your Watch How to Charge the Smartwatch How to Connect your Watch to Wi-fi How to See Your Data in the Fitbit App How to Change Versa 2 wristband Restart, Update and Erase Home Screen and Basic Navigation Shortcuts. Button shortcut How to Check Battery Status How to Setup Device Lock How to Reset/ Change PIN code on your Watch How to Unlock your Fitbit Device with your Phone How to Activate Always-On -Display Feature How to Adjust Screen Wake Setting How to Use Fitbit Premium How to change Clock Faces, Update and Uninstall Apps How to Connect your Fitbit Account to an App How to Set up Alexa How to Set up the Phillips Hue App How to Adjust Lights from the Watch How to Set up News App, Strava App and Uber App How to Load Starbucks Card into the App How to Request for an Uber Ride on your Watch How to Use the Weather App How to Set up Notifications How to reject or Answer Phone Calls How to Respond to Messages How to Customize Quick Replies on Your Versa 2 Timekeeping on Versa 2 Tracking your Activities and Sleep on Versa 2 How to View Your Heart Rate How to Start Guided Breathing Session How to Track and Analyze Exercise with the Exercise app How to Track Your Cardio Fitness How to Use Music and Podcasts How to Download Playlists to Versa 2 How to Listen to Podcasts and Music on Versa 2 How to Set up and use Fitbit Pay Troubleshooting Tips And lots more




The Numinous Legacy


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Where is God in the universe if anywhere? Why did God make germs? Why should we be so special? Could the universe have been different? This is a book that brings home, in no uncertain fashion, the discrepancy between the universe envisaged by the ancient sages and prophets and that of modern scientific cosmology, where the possibility of divine intervention looks less and less likely. Butchins demonstrates with clarity how the scientific method may be used, despite certain drawbacks, in an attempt to verify objective truth. It describes how the effect of the Copernican Revolution in the seventeenth century has steadily undermined the basic structure of the three great monotheistic religions of our day, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, especially with respect to their eschatological concepts. The Eastern religions, being less anthropomorphic, are less affected. The theistic argument from design is shown to be powerful enough to have caused disagreement among present-day scientists, in spite of the strictures of Professor Dawkins. In general, the book attempts to make some sense of the structure of the universe in terms of our own consciousness; it behoves the reader to consider tha




A Barebones Guide to Get Your Product from Idea to Market


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Have a great idea for a new product, but don't know the steps to get it sold? Then you are in luck, because you've found your guide! There are tons upon tons of great books from brilliant authors to explain the nuances of product creation online, but who has time to read them all? Fortunately, you don't have to!. With "A BAREBONES GUIDE TO GET YOUR PRODUCT FROM IDEA TO MARKET", you will have critical access to the basic structure all products are built upon. Using this guide as a starting point, it will explain the first steps to building a great network for future projects to follow. Get yours today!