Running Until You're 100: A Guide to Lifelong Running

by Jeff Galloway

Overview

Running Until You’re 100 is the must-have guide that will keep runners fit as they age and help them run for life.
 
Using Jeff Galloway’s proven Run Walk Run® method, this book offers step-by-step programs for runners in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. These programs make the needed adjustments for each decade, which means the runner can enjoy exercise and enhance life without injury.
 
Also included is advice on nutrition and fat burning as well as how to determine current fitness level, set appropriate goals, and stay injury free.
 
Using these run–walk, low-mileage programs will benefit the bones, joints, and heart, and most runners are able to enjoy running with fewer aches and pains.
 
With this book, anyone can run until they’re 100!
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782551652
Publisher:	Cardinal Publishers Group
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Edition description:	Fifth Edition, fifth edition
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	488,082
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Jeff Galloway was an average teenage runner who kept learning and working harder until he became an Olympian. He is the author of the best-selling running book in North America (Galloway’s Book on Running) and was a Runner’s World columnist for over 20 years, as well as an inspirational speaker for more than 200 running and fitness sessions each year. He has worked with over 400,000 average people training for specific goals. Galloway is the designer of the walk–run, low-mileage marathon training program, Galloway Run Walk Run®, that has an over 98% success rate.
 

Table of Contents

Dedication 8

1 How Active Do You Want To Be? 9

2 If You Don't Give Up…You Win! 11

3 What Does The Research Say? 19

4 How to Run Better as You Get Older 24

5 Major Differences as You Get Older 27

6 Goals and Priorities 33

7 Health Alert 36

8 The Galloway Run-Walk-Rum Method 40

9 What Pace is Right for Me…Today? 44

10 Mature Runner's Checklist 51

11 Physiological Improvements Occur at Any Age 57

12 Long Run, Hills, and Regularity-The Key Elements 60

13 Mature and Faster 65

14 The Drills to Make Running Faster and Easier 72

15 Your Journal for Planning, Evaluation, and Motivation 76

16 The Principles of Great Running Form 80

17 Mental Toughness 87

18 Mastering Sports Nutrition: Tips for Aging Runners Nancy Clark, Ms, RD 94

19 Should We Take Vitamins? 104

20 Why Does Your Body Want to Hold on to Fat? 106

21 How to Burn More Fat? 113

22 Fat-Burning Training; For the Rest of Your Life 116

23 Controlling the Income Side of the Fat Equation 119

24 Good Blood Sugar - Motivation 126

25 Cross Training: Getting Better as You Rest the Legs 129

26 Heart Rate Monitors and GPS Devices 135

27 Dealing with the Heat 140

28 Troubleshooting Performance 147

29 Problems and Solutions 150

30 Injury Troubleshooting 157

31 Choosing the Best Shoe for You 164

32 The Clothing Thermometer 168

33 Products That Enhance Running 171

34 Prime Training Elements 176