Our Bestsellers in 2011
Half-Marathon - You can do it
by Jeff Galloway
If you are thinking about training for a half-marathon, Jeff Galloway can help you prepare well, enjoy the training and glow from the achievement of crossing the finish line. Author of the best-seller "Marathon – You can do it!", Galloway now offers a state-of-the-art book on the highly popular half-marathon distance. Jeff's trademarked run-walk-run method has helped hundreds of thousands of average people to get off the couch, train for marathons and half-marathons without injury and has helped veterans to improve times. This book offers a step-by-step program that starts with setting up your training each week. more
Running Until You're 100
by Jeff Galloway
Olympian Jeff Galloway has worked with tens of thousands of runners in their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. By using his run-walk-runtm method, most are able to enjoy running with fewer aches and pains. At the age of 60, Jeff reports no injuries in 27 years. This book explains how to achieve this, how to stay motivated, and increase the enjoyment. more
Mental Training for Runners
by Jeff Galloway
This book explains how to improve motivation, why and how you lose motivation and it gives specific tips and methods for staying at your best. Generations of exercisers and athletes have struggled with the motivation to get out the door, to continue on tough days, or to push through the final barrier of discomfort to the long awaited goal. This book describes the source of problems, how to diffuse them, with methods that can keep one motivated. The unconscious process of stress build-up often sends body and mind on separate missions. Galloway provides a series of mental training methods which can bring body, mind, and spirit into a powerful team. Each major area of low motivation is noted with proven ways of overcoming the problems. Many runners have applied these methods at work, in the home and in other areas of life. more
Running - Getting Started
by Jeff Galloway
"Running - Getting Started" will take anyone, at any level of fitness, into the running lifestyle. Jeff Galloway, a US Olympian in 1972, has helped over 150,000 people make this journey while reducing or eliminating aches, pains, and injuries suffered during most training programs. Jeff developed the Run-Walk method of training, in which running is repeatedly interrupted by walk breaks, and offers a step by step program that is easy to use and easy to understand. Included will be lots of tips on nutrition, staying motivated, building endurance, shoes, stretching and strengthening and much more. more
Nancy Clark's Food Guide for Marathoners
by Nancy Clark
In Nancy Clark's Food Guide for Marathoners, you'll learn to effectively balance carbohydrates, protein and fat into your diet, choose the best snacks for before, during and after long runs, lose weight and have energy to exercise, carbohydrate load for a marathon, and complete the entire marathon with energy to spare more
Galloway's 5k and 10k Running
by Jeff Galloway
Olympian Jeff Galloway offers an easy and time-efficient system to train for, and then enter, a 5K or a 10K. His training has been used successfully by over 500,000 through e-coaching, running schools, fitness retreats, training programs and books. His unique system gives you control over fatigue, while reducing or eliminating aches and pains. Successful schedules help beginners finish each workout strong, with time goal programs for veterans. Easy-to-read advice is given on medical checks, nutrition, fat-burning, aches and pains, shoes, and how to stay motivated. The race day checklist prepares you for the big day, with inside information from one who has entered over 1000 races, and represented the United States in the 10K in the Munich Olympics. more
Start to Finish
by Roch Frey, Paul Huddle & T.J. Murphy
Okay, you’ve finished your first shortdistance triathlon, maybe even an Olympic distance triathlon or an Ironman 70.3. Now it’s time to up the ante and go further and faster. Paul Huddle and Roch Frey are up to the challenge. Longer workouts, balancing work, family and training, adding speed work, recovery and the mental game are all essential when you decide to move up to the Ironman distance. No one has more training or racing experience than Roch and Paul. They will get you to your target race healthy, happy and ready for more. Guaranteed. more
Women's Complete Guide to Running
by Jeff and Barbara Galloway
This is the book that will take any woman, at any level of fitness, into the running lifestyle. Jeff Galloway, a US Olympian in 1972, has helped over 150,000 people make this journey while reducing or eliminating aches, pains, and injuries suffered during most training programs. Jeff developed the Run-Walk-Run method of training, and together with his wife Barbara he offers a step by step program specifically designed for the needs and concerns of women. Included are lots of tips on staying motivated, building endurance, shoes, stretching and strengthening, as well as smart nutrition choices, and much more. more
The Best of Soccer Journal
edited by Jay Martin
This book offers some of the best articles from the NSCAA's Soccer Journal from the last twenty years. Soccer Journal is the official publication of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
The book offers articles that cover the Four Pillars of soccer. Those pillars are: Technique, Tactics, the Mental and the Physical. The fifth section describes to the reader how to coach. Once the reader examines the Four Pillars of Soccer, chapter five deals with how to coach and manage a team. Coaching is examined at all levels from U6 to professional. This chapter offers answers to many questions that coaches will have every season.
This book is the first in a new series of books from the NSCAA. Future editions will examine each of the pillars again in more detail. more
The Ultimate Parkour & Freerunning Book
by Jan Witfeld, Ilona Gerling & Alexander Pach
The increasing number of followers of the two movement cultures, Parkour and Freerunning, has given rise to the need for safe, methodical orientation, which the reader will find in this book. Parkour, a new movement culture from France, is all about moving as efficiently as possible between points A and B by sprinting fluently over obstacles. The sport of Freerunning has developed from it, involving developing and showing off the most creative, extreme, flowing, acrobatic moves possible on obstacles. This book contains precise illustrations for the teaching of all basic techniques, easy to follow movement breakdowns and methodical tips for indoor and outdoor training. All the most common terms from the scene are listed for reference in English and French. History, philosophy, rules of behavior, training advice based on the latest sports science knowledge, interviews from the scene about motivations and trends, advice for schools and explanations of competitions and competition criteria are a few examples of the book’s contents. more

