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Run with Power: The Complete Guide to Power Meters for Running
Current price:
$18.95
Publication Date: May 1st, 2016
Publisher:
VeloPress
ISBN:
9781937715434
Pages:
240
Description
RUN WITH POWER is the groundbreaking guide you need to tap the true potential of your running power meter. From 5K to ultramarathon, a power meter can make you fasterbut only if you know how to use it. Just viewing your numbers is not enough; you can only become a faster, stronger, more efficient runner when you know what your key numbers mean for your workouts, races, and your season-long training. In Run with Power, TrainingBible coach Jim Vance offers the comprehensive guide you need to find the speed you want.
Run with Power demystifies the data and vocabulary so you can find and understand your most important numbers. You’ll set your Running Power Zones so you can begin training using 8 power-based training plans for 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon. Vance shows you how you can compare wattage, heart rate, pace, and perceived exertion to gain the maximum insight into your performances, how you respond to training, and how you can train more effectively.
Run with Power will revolutionize how you train and race. Armed with Vance’s guidance, you can train more specifically for races, smooth your running technique, accurately measure your fitness, predict a fitness plateau, monitor injuries, know exactly how hard you’re training, get more fitness from every workout, recover fully, perfect your tapers, warm up without wasting energy, pace your race on any terrain, know when to open the throttle, and create an unprecedented picture of yourself as an athlete.
If you’re just glancing at the number on your wrist or computer monitor, you’ve got a lot more speed potential. Knowledge is power and understanding your power numbers can open the gate to new methods and new PRs. Run with Power introduces the use of power meters to the sport of running and will show you how to break through to all-new levels of performance.
Key concepts explored in Run with Power: 3/9 Test, 30-minute Time Trial Test, Running Functional Threshold Power (rFTPw), Running Functional Threshold Pace (rFTPa), Averaged and Normalized Power (NP), Intensity Factor (IF), Peak Power, Variability Index, Efficiency Index (EI), speed per watt, Vance’s Power Zones for Running, Training Stress Score (TSS), and Periodization with Power. Includes 6 testing methods and 8 power-based training schedules and workouts for 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon.
Praise for Run with Power: The Complete Guide to Power Meters for Running
“As advanced technology becomes available for runners, the opportunity to get a step on the competition increases dramatically for the early adopters. The runner’s power meter is the latest example of that. It’s a complex tool, but one with great potential for enhancing performance. There’s no one better to help you understand running with power than Jim Vance. I’ve worked closely with Jim for nearly a decade, and he’s one the sharpest coaches I’ve ever known. I highly recommend his book Run with Power to runners who want to get an edge.”
— Joe Friel, founder of TrainingBible Coaching, cofounder of TrainingPeaks, and author of The Triathlete’s Training Bible and The Power Meter Handbook
“Power might be the ultimate training metric for runners. Power meters for running could be a game-changing breakthrough.”
— Competitor magazine
“Chasing watts has been a revelation. Power is the only feedback…that’s dead simple and actionable mid-gallop…The perfect recipe for improvement.”
— Wired
“The power meter is the next evolution for running.”
— Craig Alexander, 5-time Ironman World Champion
“Running power is a simple metric for all kinds of runners to understand every key aspect of runningperformance, running form, and efficiency.”
— Danny Abshire, cofounder of Newton Running and author of Natural Running
“The power meter changed the way cyclists train. It will do the same thing for running.”
— Allen Lim, elite cycling coach and cofounder of Skratch Labs
“The art and science of using power for run training are still very much in their infancy, but coach Jim Vance spells it all out in the first detailed book on the subject…His 352-page book can give insights to unlocking performance breakthroughs for technically inclined runners of any ability level.”
— Competitor
“I highly recommend reading Jim Vance’s new book Run with Power. Knowledge is power, and power is going to revolutionize how we run.”
— Coach Jenny Hadfield, coauthor of Running for Mortals and Marathoning for Mortals
“Run with Power was penned to explain what data you actually need when using a power and how to analyze it to get faster.”
— LAVA magazine
