Book Description
Advice on running fitness and developing a stress-defense system supplements a comprehensive guide to the causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of athletic injuries and illnesses.
Author : George Sheehan
Publisher : Anderson World
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 9780890371343
Advice on running fitness and developing a stress-defense system supplements a comprehensive guide to the causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of athletic injuries and illnesses.
Author : George Sheehan
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1609619315
A New York Times bestseller for 14 weeks in 1978, Running & Being became known as the philosophical bible for runners around the world. More than thirty years after its initial publication, it remains every bit as relevant today. Written by the late, beloved Dr. George Sheehan, Running & Being tells of the author's midlife return to the world of exercise, play and competition, in which he found "a world beyond sweat" that proved to be a source of great revelation and personal growth. But Running & Being focuses more on life than it does, specifically, on running. It provides an outline for a lifetime program of fitness and joy, showing how the body helps determine our mental and spiritual energies. Drawing from the words and actions of the great athletes and thinkers throughout history, Sheehan ties it all together with his own philosophy on the importance of fitness and sport, as well as his knowledge of training, injury prevention, and race competition. Above all, Sheehan describes what it means to experience the oneness of body and mind, of self and the universe. In this, Sheehan argues, we have the power to discover "the truth that makes men free."
Author : George Sheehan
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1609619323
Runners and readers whose connections to the sport date back to the 1970s surely remember Dr. George Sheehan, the New Jersey cardiologist and writer whose unique approach to the joy of exercise helped spark America's fitness boom. As a columnist for his local Red Bank Register and later as the medical editor of Runner's World and through eight bestselling books, Sheehan became, through the influence of his example and writing, the spokesperson for an entire generation of runners and the manifold benefits they discovered through the running lifestyle. Sadly, several of Sheehan's books are now out of print, and the hundreds of newspaper magazine columns he penned over the last 25 years of his life have been lost to time. Until now. The Essential Sheehan is a collection of the best running pieces George Sheehan wrote in his lifetime, many of which ran in Runner's World when Sheehan was a columnist there. This collection illuminates Sheehan's lasting influence on running culture and is a reintroduction of George Sheehan to a new generation of runners and readers.
Author : Andrew Sheehan
Publisher : Delta
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0440333946
“I have always chased my father, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes. I chased him even when I thought I was running in the other direction. Today, even though he is gone, I chase him still. I know he is the key to my freedom.” To runners around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times bestseller Running and Being, was nothing short of a guru — the country’s “greatest philosopher of sport.” But to his son Andrew, who had spent his entire boyhood longing for the attention and approval of an emotionally distant father, he was an incomprehensible paradox: a lifelong loner, who was now sunning himself in the spotlight of the nation’s press; a hero to millions, who seemed to have no time for his own son. The events that transformed George Sheehan from doctor to family man to bestselling author and media magnet began at the depths of what we would now call a midlife crisis, when he rediscovered an old love — running. Twenty-five years after his days on a high school cross-country team, he remembered how running made him feel free, and began beating a solitary path down his suburban streets. With running as his new religion, the formerly quiet, withdrawn man became an unlikely evangelist, converting a sedentary nation to the theology of fitness, and in the process becoming an internationally known figure. But the freedom he found in running was not enough, and one day he left his family, having decided that life was “an experiment of one,” and it was time for him to start living it. Angry and disillusioned after years of enduring his father’s self-absorption, and hurt by his apparent indifference, Andrew had long since begun the search for his own version of freedom, looking first to drugs and later to alcohol. By his twenties he was a confirmed alcoholic. By his thirties his marriage had fallen apart and he was drinking more heavily than ever. It was at that moment that his father threw him a lifeline. Although he was struggling with the cancer that would eventually end his life, Dr. Sheehan was the first to notice his son’s pain, and to reach out to him. In this stunningly candid book, Andrew Sheehan describes the process through which these two men carefully and lovingly rebuilt their relationship. And in the effort to understand and forgive the dark side of his father’s psyche, Andrew shows how he came to understand, and to transcend, his own. A gracefully written paean to the healing power of forgiveness, a memoir that will resonate with any “fallible” parent or child, Chasing the Hawk traces the arduous steps that carry father and son down the hard road to resolution, healing, and love.
Author : George Sheehan
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1992-01-15
Category : Physical fitness
ISBN : 9780878579952
"His writing is clear, filled with quotes from a variety of philosophers, & founded in an all-encompassing humanism. Few popular writers force readers to examine their lives, reconcile dreams with reality, establish new personal standards, & inspire them to attain those new goals. Sheehan does all that & camouflages it so well one is scarcely aware of the process."-Booklist
Author : Mark Cucuzzella, MD
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1101912383
A straightforward, easy-to-follow look at the anatomy, biomechanics, and nutrition of running. Dr. Cucuzzella "aims to improve the fitness and well-being of all, from the uninitiated to beginners to veterans who still have new tricks to learn" (Amby Burfoot, Boston Marathon winner, writer at large for Runner’s World magazine, and author of The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life). Despite our natural ability and our human need to run, each year more than half of all runners suffer injuries. Pain and discouragement inevitably follow. Cucuzzella's book outlines the proven, practical techniques to avoid injury and reach the goal of personal fitness and overall health. With clear drawings and black-and-white photographs, the book provides illustrated exercises designed to teach healthy running, along with simple progressions and a running schedule that shows the reader how to tailor their training regimen to their individual needs and abilities.
Author : George Sheehan
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
"He's the tops."-Booklist
Author : James F. Fixx
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9784871873178
This book has been the most popular and the best selling running book of all time.
Author : George Sheehan
Publisher : Villard Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A series of essays that George Sheehan, doctor, philosopher, author, and record-setting marathoner, wrote until his death of cancer in 1993.
Author : Francis G. O'Connor
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN :
*The most comprehensive book available on running injuries *Presents both general and specialized principles, diagnosis, and treatment options*Offers extensive injury management strategies*Review associated medical problems, rehabilitation guidelines, surgical considerations, and more.