Running Periodization: Training Theories to Run Faster

by Jason Karp

How do you know the precise combination and best order of workouts that will enable you to run faster? How do you know the right time to do another workout after doing a workout on Tuesday? How do you individualize training for runners of different strengths, weaknesses, adaptive abilities, developmental ages, and time frames? Sometimes, you need to break the rules. In the groundbreaking book, Running Training Theories to Run Faster , exercise physiologist, coach, and bestselling author Jason Karp, PhD, explains a variety of training theories using theoretical and historical frameworks, scientific research, and documented empirical evidence from the world's best runners to discover how to optimally train. The book shows runners and coaches how to design training programs using several periodized approaches, including linear periodization, reverse linear periodization, block periodization, and undulating periodization, as well as how to periodize training for high school and college runners, strength training, and even a woman's menstrual cycle. Running Periodization will make you a world-class training strategist and the best runner you can be. Contents Chapter 1: Training Adaptation Chapter 2: Recovery Chapter 3: Training Theories Chapter 4: Training Volume and Intensity Chapter 5: Introduction to Periodization Chapter 6: Linear Periodization Chapter 7: Reverse Linear Periodization Chapter 8: Block Periodization Chapter 9: Undulating Periodization Chapter 10: Female Running Perioization Chapter 11: High School and College Running Periodization Chapter 12: Strength Training Periodization Chapter 13: Altitude Training

415 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 18, 2021