"Drink as much as you can, even before you feel thirsty." That's been the mantra to athletes and coaches for the past three decades, and bottled water and sports drinks have flourished into billion-dollar industries in the same short time. The problem is that an overhydrated athlete is at a performance disadvantage and at risk of exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH)—a potentially fatal condition.

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Discusses endurance in sports, provides exercises for improving it, and profiles athletes known for their endurance.

Returning from their adventure in Balto of the Blue Dawn, Jack and Annie learn fun facts about sled dogs, the Iditarod and other extreme sports, from the X Games to Ironman competitions.

Primal Endurance shakes up the status quo and challenges the overly stressful, ineffective conventional approach to endurance training. While marathons and triathlons are wildly popular and bring much gratification and camaraderie to the participants, the majority of athletes are too slow, continually tired, and carry too much body fat respective to the time they devote to training. The prevailing "chronic cardio" approach promotes carbohydrate dependency,...

The human body is capable of extraordinary feats, but what's the limit? Dr. Sanjay Gupta meets the team working to reach the next level: breaking the two-hour marathon.

Obstacle course racing is the fastest-growing sport in U.S. history. Every week, thousands of marathoners, CrossFitters, and casual weekend warriors run through mud and fire, crawl under barbed wire, scramble over ten-foot walls, and dodge baton-wielding gladiators. Some even sprint through electrically charged wires only to suffer muscle-seizing shocks and faceplant in the muck. Journalist and endurance athlete Erin Beresini dives into this world...

"Training for the Uphill Athlete translates theory into methodology to allow you to write your own training plans and coach yourslef to your endurance goals. This is the only book that presents training principles for athletes who regularly partipate in distance running, ski mountaineering, skimo, and other sports that require optimum fitness and customized strength ... This book collects the scientifically backed and athelete-tested wisdom and experience...

"Read Fast After 50 to learn more about the effects of aging on athletic performance and how you can be a competitive endurance athlete as you get older." —Triathlete magazine
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...

Summary in Korean: "이 책은 목숨을 위협받는 학대와 인종차별, 가난과 장애에 시달렸던 그가 136kg의 거구의 몸으로 바퀴벌레 잡는 일을 하던 루저의 삶에서 벗어나 ‘세계 최강의 남자’로 거듭나기까지 직접 체화한 인생의 필승 전략들을 모두 집약했다. 이 책은 개개인 내면에 결코 파괴되지 않을 위대함을 깨우는 가장 강력한 각성제가 될 것이다. For...

"The Examined Run provides an accessible treatment of what it might look like to use running as a laboratory for virtue development. This book engages many topics in the field of virtue ethics-virtue, vice, exemplarism, emotions, and competition-and places them in conversation with training and racing in endurance sports. The Examined Run explores happiness and success, competition and character. It investigates whether certain definitions of success...