Get More from Each Workout with The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery

Boulder, CO, USA — April 21, 2011 — The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery is the first and only comprehensive exploration of the art and science of athletic rest. Runners, triathletes, and cyclists will gain more fitness from every workout with this new book from Sage Rountree, an expert cycling, triathlon, and running coach and yoga instructor. The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery: Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance is now available in bookstores; bike, tri, and running shops; and online. Learn more and download a free preview at velopress.com/recover.

Endurance athletes plan their workouts carefully, yet it’s during the crucial recovery period between workouts that they become faster at their sports. Recovery is when the body repairs itself and adapts to become stronger than before. Those who neglect their recovery will gain little from training, risking injury, overtraining, and burnout.

Rountree’s book guides athletes to full recovery and improved performance. She explains how much rest athletes need, how to measure fatigue, and how to make the best use of recovery tools.

Drawing on her own experience and extensive interviews with coaches, trainers, and elite athletes, Rountree details daily recovery practices, demystifying common aids like compression apparel, supplements, and ice baths as well as more exotic technologies. Athletes will discover which methods work and how and when they are most effective.

Rountree offers recovery plans for a variety of events, from short distance bike races to ultramarathons, so athletes can rest assured that they are ready for the next phase of training and racing.

The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery is an invaluable resource that enables athletes to maintain the balance between hard training and rest so that they can feel great and compete at their highest capability.

The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery: Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance by Sage Rountree
Paperback with tables and figures throughout
6" x 9", 232 pp., $18.95, 978-1-934030-67-7

Sage Rountree is an internationally recognized authority on yoga for athletes and an expert endurance sports coach. She is a certified coach with USA Triathlon and the Road Runners Club of America as well as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. A successful competitor in running and triathlon, she has raced distances ranging from the 400m to the 50K, super sprint triathlon to Ironman®. Sage is a frequent contributor to Runner's World, Triathlete, and Yoga Journal magazines and has contributed to USA Triathlon Life, VeloNews, Running Times, Inside Triathlon, and Endurance magazines as well as several websites. She is a featured instructor at Kripalu and offers yoga workshops for athletes and coaches around the country. Sage is the author of The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga and The Athlete’s Pocket Guide to Yoga. Learn more at sagerountree.com.

Media review copies, excerpts, author interviews and events:
Dave Trendler, Marketing and Publicity Manager, (303) 245-2138, dtrendler@competitorgroup.com

Distributors and specialty retailers please order through:
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America’s 22 Million Injured Runners Can Get Back on Their Feet with Running Doc’s Guide to Healthy Running

Boulder, CO, USA — April 12, 2011 — Running Doc’s Guide to Healthy Running: How to Fix Injuries, Stay Active, and Run Pain-Free is the first comprehensive guide to avoiding and overcoming running injuries. The American Medical Athletic Association has estimated that every year 37-50% of America’s 44 million runners suffer a running-related injury severe enough to bring them to a halt. For these runners, injury is a frustrating fate that delays their fitness, performance, and weight-loss goals. With Running Doc’s Guide to Healthy Running, runners can beat injuries and enjoy running pain-free. The book is now available in bookstores, running shops, and online. Runners can download a preview of the more than 100 injuries and conditions covered at velopress.com/runningdoc.

Lewis G. Maharam, MD, better known as Running Doc™, is the most trusted doctor in running. From head to toenails, his book explains healthy running practices and guides runners to the right diagnosis and treatment for over 100 running injuries and related health problems.

The book begins with healthy training and gear practices that will help runners avoid injury. Maharam covers non-injury health issues like colds and flu, aches and pains, and healthy running for women. The book’s illustrated Injury Manual includes diagnosis and treatment information for injuries to the feet and ankles, legs and knees, groin and hip, back, neck, and head.

Maharam offers simple, effective treatments for every common running injury. Using clear illustrations of injured areas and therapeutic strength and mobility exercises, he describes medically proven ways to fix injuries like runner’s knee, shin splints, Achilles’ tendinitis, IT Band Syndrome, plantar fasciitis, and dozens of other maladies. For more difficult injuries, Maharam explains when runners should seek professional medical care.

Runners should enjoy their sport free of pain, yet more than 1 in 3 runners will get hurt this year. With Running Doc’s Guide to Healthy Running, runners can fix injuries, stay healthy, and run pain-free.

Running Doc’s Guide to Healthy Running: How to Fix Injuries, Stay Active, and Run Pain-Free
Lewis G. Maharam, MD with foreword by Frank Shorter
Paperback with 2-color tables and figures throughout
7 3/8" x 9 1/4", 248 pp., $24.95, 978-1-934030-68-4

Lewis G. Maharam, MD, is one of the world’s most extensively credentialed and well-known running health experts. Better known as Running Doc™, Maharam is the medical director of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon series and former medical director of the New York Road Runners Club and the New York City Marathon. He has appeared on World News Tonight, Today, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, CNN, and Fox News. His work has appeared in Runner’s World and Competitor magazines, and he is the author of four books.

VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher with books on cycling, triathlon, running, and nutrition.

Media review copies, excerpts, author interviews and events:
Dave Trendler, Marketing and Publicity Manager, (303) 245-2138, dtrendler@competitorgroup.com

Distributors and specialty retailers please order through:
Jen Soulé, Sales Manager, (800) 811-4210 x2169, wholesale@competitorgroup.com