Running Anatomy 2nd Edition - Print Book with Online CE Exam | Essential Guide for Runners, Coaches & Physical Therapists | Improve Performance & Prevent Injuries

This package includes the following:

• Running Anatomy, Second Edition, book
• Online continuing education exam

Improve running strength, speed, and endurance in your clients and athletes with Running Anatomy, Second Edition. This second edition of the best-selling running guide delivers more exercises, more insight, and more illustrations to help increase muscle strength, optimize the efficiency of running motion, and minimize risk of injury in your clients.

Running Anatomy features 48 of the most effective strength exercises for runners, each with clear step-by-step descriptions and full-color anatomical illustrations highlighting the muscles in action. Each illustration helps you better understand how muscles, ligaments, and tendons all work together as the body moves.

Running Anatomy clearly links each exercise to running performance. You’ll see how to strengthen specific muscles and improve gait efficiency for faster times and more fluid runs. Plus you’ll learn how to eliminate anatomical imbalances that can lead to the most common injuries that runners face, including plantar fasciitis, lower-back pain, knee aches and strains, and torn muscles and tendons.

You’ll find variations to train clients for every condition and competition—for various terrains, speeds, elevations, and distances, from sprint to marathon. You’ll also learn how new gear and technology-enhanced equipment can maximize training and performance.

After reading the book, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Describe physiological adaptations to training for running.
• Analyze the biomechanics of running.
• Understand how environmental factors affect running training.
• Explain appropriate remedies for common running injuries.
• Determine effective strengthening exercises for runners.
• Describe the importance of alternative forms of training for runners.

Audience

Personal trainers and other certified fitness and strength and conditioning professionals working with runners.

Chapter 1. The Runner in Motion
Chapter 2. Training Concepts
Chapter 3. External Factors That Affect Performance
Chapter 4. Feet and Ankles
Chapter 5. Legs
Chapter 6. Core
Chapter 7. Shoulders and Arms
Chapter 8. Chest and Back
Chapter 9. Injury Prevention
Chapter 10. Alternative Training Activities
Chapter 11. Gear and Advancements

Joe Puleo has been coaching distance running and track and field for 28 years. He has been the head coach for men’s and women’s cross country and track and field at Rutgers University at Camden, where he produced 10 Division III All-Americans, including two individual national champions. Simultaneously, he spent a decade coaching the USMC’s All-Marine running program, where he coached three CISM World Championship teams for the United States Armed Forces (marathon and cross country).

Mr. Puleo is the coauthor of the articles “Anteriorly Rotated Pelvis: The Negative Effects for a Distance Runner” and “Anatomy of Running Footwear,” which appeared in Techniques magazine. He is a frequent contributor to articles that have appeared in Runner’s World and other fitness publications. His first album of songs, A Life I Knew, written for the band Bannister Effect, is scheduled for release in the fall of 2018. His debut novel will be published in the spring 2019.

Mr. Puleo lives in Spring City, Pennsylvania, with his family and two German shepherds.

Patrick Milroy has been the chief medical officer for the Road Runners Club in Great Britain since 1998. From 1991 to 2007, he was a medical advisor and contributor to Runner’s World, and for 10 years before he was similarly involved with its precursors, Jogging magazine and Running magazine.

Dr. Milroy received the award of fellow from the Institute of Sports Medicine in 1999 and from the UK Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2006. He has served as a medical officer for many athletic events—including the World Half Marathon Championships, Team England Commonwealth Games (four times), and British Athletics Federation—and was medical officer for the Great Britain team at the World Junior Championships (three times) and European Junior Championships (two times).

Dr. Milroy is the author of Sports Injuries, coauthor of AAA Runner’s Guide, and author of numerous other articles on sport and exercise topics for journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is also an accomplished runner: winner of the World Medical Games 5,000-meter event and half marathon in 1980, 1982, and 1984 and winner of the European Medical Games 20K, 5K, and 1,500-meter events in 1983. His personal best in the marathon is 2 hours and 26 minutes. At the age of 65, he cycled from Los Angeles to Boston (3,300 miles) in 35 days.

He lives in Chester, United Kingdom, with his wife, Clare, near to his four children and five grandchildren.