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 enlarge | Author: Joe Friel
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 20685
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1569755620
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.711
EAN: 9781569755624
ASIN: 1569755620
Publication Date: November 1, 2006
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 A Bore March 25, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
A very confusing book geared for the advanced athlete or olympic hopeful.
Of little use for the average fitness enthusiast.
I learned nothing from this scattered manual.
I'll continue to research elsewhere.
Total heart review October 8, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's an excellent acquisition for people who like measuring their fitness. Sometimes the book seems to be a little complicated but you can after a second lecture you will find that is no so complicated
 On my short list of top conditioning training resources July 21, 2007
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
This brief but densely packed book is a superb reference of conditioning principles for all serious athletes. The reason is that it combines a safe, practical way of quantifying your workouts with a superb overview of the dimensions of training.
Contrary to the impression you might get from the book's title, this book is not a recap of the usual information about heart rate training, it is rather a concise summary of the long experience of the author searching for both effective training strategies and a way of organizing those strategies into an overall system.
The highlights that impressed me:
1. How to realistically and accurately evaluate your own heart rate training zones. "Max heart rate" is risky and unneccessary to test and uselessly inaccurate to estimate from age. Friel's approach is to use lactate threshold and work back from there because it is much easier to determine and more meaningful to most training programs.
2. The physiological and functional effects of each training zone, related to perceived effort and types of training drill. This breakdown tells you exactly how each type of training affects your basic athletic abilities and gives you examples of drills for each zone.
3. An easily understood adaptation of Bompa's system for relating basic athletic abilities (endurance, force, speed-skill) to advanced abilities (muscular endurance, anaerobic endurance, power).
4. Practical suggestions for determining what sorts of training you need to support activity of different durations.
The book focuses primarily on training for endurance sports, but its quantitative approach to training will help anyone in any athletic activity to systematize and improve their own program.
Note that the focus in this book is on the performance abilities common to all physical activities. There is no coverage of skill aquisition, flexibility, mobility, stability, or the functional approach to sports. The training concepts in this book in general assume that you already have the basic functional ability to perform in your given sport. I would say that this fact, more than any complexity or difficulty of the book, makes this a somewhat advanced resource. If you are a novice athlete, you would not want to just jump into the sorts of training program suggested here. You would want to first determine the basic stability and mobility requirements for your sport and be sure you understand and meet those before you go off doing different kinds of intervals and steady state workouts.
This book is a superb mixture of exercise science and the author's long practical experience with athletic training. I highly recommend it to help any thinking coach or athlete better plan their conditioning workouts.
comprehensive and clear, and not at all too technical May 11, 2007
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is comprehensive enough that even someone who has been doing a lot of reading on heart rate and training will learn something new.
Someone else's review says that it isn't intended for an Average Joe user, and is only useful for athletes. I suspect that this person is one of those people who thinks that the 1040 tax form is too complicated. This text is comprehensive and detailed enough for a superb athlete, but all the information can be understood and used by a novice working out on an elliptic machine at the gym (me!). If you aren't training for a run nine months from now and don't need a training plan, just don't read that section, right? Right.
Also, there is a helpful "Misconceptions" section.
Not for beginners or the non-competitive athelete February 16, 2007
49 out of 51 found this review helpful
This book is probably a five star book, but I give it a four because of the misleading summary provided by the publisher. This book is definitely not for beginners or those that exercise for general fitness. It is highly technical and really only appropriate for competing athletes that train 10 or more hours/week (or those coaching these athletes). If you want some simple programs that help to provide an efficient program for general fitness (<10 hours/week) you should look elsewhere.
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