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.

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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.

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Joe Friel Writes New Book Your Best Triathlon for Serious Triathletes

Boulder, CO, USA — January 6, 2011 — Joe Friel, the most trusted coach in the sport of triathlon, has written a new book for committed triathletes. Your Best Triathlon: Advanced Training for Serious Triathletes is a master plan for committed triathletes to achieve their best race ever. The book is now available in bookstores, triathlon and running shops, and online. To preview the book, please visit velopress.com.

In Your Best Triathlon, Friel guides triathletes through every week of their season, outlining clear objectives and the guidelines to meet them. Friel reveals the highly refined training plans he has developed over his 30-year career coaching elite and age-group triathletes. He provides a tool kit of proven workouts that isolate and develop specific abilities. Hundreds of thousands of triathletes have relied on Joe Friel and his ground-breaking best-seller, The Triathlete’s Training Bible. Now with Your Best Triathlon, Friel takes triathletes beyond the Bible and coaches them to their best performance ever.

Triathletes using The Triathlete’s Training Bible will create their own custom, self-coached training plan and use the book to learn everything they need for season after season of success in the sport. Triathletes who train using Your Best Triathlon will achieve breakthrough race performance by training the same way Joe Friel coaches his personal clients. In Your Best Triathlon, Friel defines the goals of each training phase and explains his strategies for achieving them. Triathletes will use Friel’s training plans for sprint, Olympic, Ironman 70.3®, and Ironman® race distances and will master Friel’s most effective workouts to improve specific abilities like endurance, economy, and muscular power. Within each workout and training plan, Friel offers simple modifications to better manage personal limiters. Your Best Triathlon adds depth and detail to the Training Bible approach, presenting relevant information at the right phase of training. Triathletes will refer to Your Best Triathlon throughout the season, just as they would check in with their coach.

Your Best Triathlon offers all triathletes access to Joe Friel, one of the world’s most experienced and respected triathlon coaches.

Your Best Triathlon: Advanced Training for Serious Triathletes by Joe Friel
Paperback with 2-color charts, tables, and illustrations throughout.
7 3/8" x 9 1/4", 360 pp., $24.95, 978-1-934030-62-2

Joe Friel is one of the world’s most experienced and respected endurance sports coaches. He has over 30 years of  experience coaching elite and age-group cyclists and triathletes. He is an elite cycling and triathlon coach and holds a master’s degree in exercise science. His training books The Triathlete’s Training Bible, The Cyclist’s Training Bible, Going Long, and Your First Triathlon are best-selling training resources in endurance sports.

VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher with books on cycling, triathlon, running, swimming, nutrition and diet, yoga, and the histories and personalities of our sports. VeloPress is the book-publishing division of Competitor Group, Inc., which publishes VeloNews, Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, and Competitor magazines and produces the Rock ‘N’ Roll marathon and half-marathon series, TriRock triathlon series, and the Muddy Buddy adventure race series.

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Lose Weight Quickly with Matt Fitzgerald’s Racing Weight Quick Start Guide

Boulder, CO, USA — January 5, 2011 — Three out of four endurance athletes are concerned about their body weight, but fad diets can be dangerous for athletes. Now runners, cyclists, and triathletes can kick off their 2011 season with a rapid weight-loss training program from best-selling author and coach Matt Fitzgerald. Racing Weight Quick Start Guide: A 4-Week Weight-Loss Plan for Endurance Athletes is the first fast-paced weight-loss training plan designed for endurance athletes. The Quick Start Guide is now available in bookstores, endurance sports shops, and online.

Racing Weight Quick Start Guide applies all the principles of the best-selling book Racing Weight in a detailed set of weight-loss training plans that are designed to help athletes shed weight quickly. Athletes will devote 4 to 8 weeks to starting a weight loss of 5, 10, or 20+ pounds.

Readers will drop pounds quickly as they follow a schedule of high-intensity workouts and strength training as well as a menu of calorie-restricted, high-protein meals and snacks. Low-volume and high-volume plans make it possible for cyclists, runners, and triathletes with a wide range of experience to maintain their training levels. These athletes will replace fat with muscle while keeping their appetites in check.

Once they have hit their quick start weight-loss goals, readers can continue to lose unwanted weight using the proven strategies of the Racing Weight program. Athletes will zero in on their racing weight through improved diet quality, balanced macronutrient levels, proper timing of meals and snacks, appetite management, and training for lean body composition.

The Racing Weight Quick Start Guide will accelerate every endurance athlete’s season for leaner and faster racing.

Racing Weight Quick Start Guide: A 4-Week Weight-Loss Plan for Endurance Athletes by Matt Fitzgerald
Paperback with charts and illustrations throughout
6" x 9", 288 pp., $18.95, 978-1-934030-72-1

Matt Fitzgerald is the author of numerous books on running, triathlon, nutrition, and weight loss. His most recent books are RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel, Racing Weight, Brain Training for Runners, and The Runner’s Diary. He has been a contributor to Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, Outside, Runner’s World, Bicycling, Running Times, Women’s Running, and other sports and fitness publications. Fitzgerald is a featured coach on TrainingPeaks.com and Active.com. He is a certified sports nutritionist (CISSN) licensed by the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He lives and trains in San Diego, California.

VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher with books on cycling, triathlon, running, swimming, nutrition and diet, yoga, and the histories and personalities of our sports. VeloPress is the book-publishing division of Competitor Group, Inc., which publishes VeloNews, Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, and Competitor magazines and produces the Rock ‘N’ Roll marathon and half-marathon series, TriRock triathlon series, and the Muddy Buddy adventure race series.

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Natural Running Explains How to Run the Barefoot Way—While Wearing Shoes

Boulder, CO, USA — December 7, 2010 — Natural Running is the middle ground runners have been looking for, explaining how runners can enjoy running as nature intended while protecting themselves from unnatural surfaces. By learning to run the barefoot way—with shoes—runners will become more efficient, stronger, and healthier runners. Backed by studies at MIT and Harvard, running form and injury expert Danny Abshire presents the natural running technique, form drills, and an 8-week transition plan that will put runners on the path to faster, more efficient, and healthier running. Natural Running is now available in bookstores, running and triathlon shops, and online.

In Natural Running, Abshire explains how modern running shoes distort the efficient running technique that humans evolved over thousands of years. He reviews the history of running shoes and how changing technologies have influenced running form and the incidence of overuse injuries. Abshire makes the case for the barefoot running style but warns that barefoot running comes with its own dangers. By learning the natural running technique, runners can enjoy both worlds—comfortable feet, knees, and legs and an efficient running form that reduces impact and injuries.

Natural Running teaches runners to think about injuries as symptoms of poor running form. Abshire specifies the overuse injuries that are most commonly associated with particular body alignment problems, foot types, and form flaws. Runners will learn how to analyze and identify their own characteristics so they can start down the path to natural running.

Abshire explains the natural running technique, describing the posture, arm carriage, cadence, and land-lever-lift foot positioning that mimic the barefoot running style. Runners transition from heel striking to a midfoot or forefoot strike, which studies show is how the body evolved to run. So that runners can relearn this more natural running gait, Abshire offers an 8-week transition plan, complete with a tool kit of strength and form drills that build and maintain the musculature required for natural running.

Natural Running is the newest way to run and also the oldest. By discovering how they were meant to run, runners will become more efficient, stronger, and healthier runners.

“Abshire is one of the leading voices in the current natural running revolution.” — Danny Dreyer, author of ChiRunning

“Danny brings a simple, sensible approach to transforming your running. His knowledge of running form and biomechanics can help all runners become more efficient.” — Mark Allen, six-time Ironman® World Champion, and co-author of Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You

Natural Running: The Simple Path to Stronger, Healthier Running by Danny Abshire with Brian Metzler
Paperback, 6" x 9", 200 pp. | $18.95, 978-1-934030-65-3

Danny Abshire is a passionate lifelong runner and cofounder of Newton Running, where he has spent 10 years designing and refining Newton Running shoes. As a longtime running form coach and injury expert, he has worked closely with thousands of athletes, from beginners to Olympic elites, helping them improve their running form and technique. Brian Metzler is Senior Editor for Running Times and has written about endurance sports for Runner’s World, Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, and Outside.

VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher with books on cycling, triathlon, running, nutrition and diet, and the histories and personalities of our sports. VeloPress is the book-publishing division of Competitor Group, Inc., which publishes Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, and Competitor magazines and produces the Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon and Half-Marathon series.

Media review copies, excerpts, author interviews and events:
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