THE ALL NEW COMPANION VOLUME TO THE COMPLETE BOOK OF RUNNING
In early 1977, when Jim Fixx finished writing The Complete Book of Running, the running boom didn’t exist, no army of researchers was examining the medical physiological and psychological effects of the sport, there was only one major running magazine, there were few books on the subject, and there was little in the way of equipment. But in the three years since the publication of Mr Fixx’s phenomenal work on the running scene, millions of Americans have taken up the sport for health and pleasure. Today there are at least 40 000 000 men, women and children running for their lives in America alone, and every day more runners all over the globe join their ranks.
Jim Fixx’s Second Book of Running is the all new long awaited companion volume to The Complete Book of Running. An up to the minute overview of the entire running experience, this book is full of freshly discovered information about how to get the most out of the world’s fastest growing activity. Thought provoking training tips for both beginners and marathoners are included, such as how to motivate yourself to keep running once you’ve started, why running tends to cause healthy eating habits, how to know when you’re running too much, and what the best running doctors prescribe for your running.
Startling new findings in medicine and psychology are also discussed, such as the conclusive research by Dr. Ralph S. Paffenbarger of Stanford university proving that running does help us to live longer. And for armchair runners and runners alike, there are fascinating analyses of the significance of the running phenomenon for contemporary society.
Written in the same perceptive, readable style that was so widely praised in his first book on the subject, Jim Fixx’s Second Book of Running is no mere supplement and not only contains 100 percent new material but looks at the whole sport. As an indefatigable researcher Mr. Fixx has studied virtually every word written about running since the appearance of his first book, and has interviewed hundreds of scientists, medical authorities and athletes. The result is a work that is wide ranging definitive, and absolutely current, in short a book that will prove indispensable to the hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic readers who have helped make The Complete Book of Running on of the longest lived best sellers in publishing history.
In addition, Jim Fixx’s Second Book of Running has a new and invaluable feature, a fair and candid evaluation of the current flood of equipment, literature, services and running organizations, everything runners form novice to world class athletes need to know about what’s available in their sport. Not only is this an exhaustive and commonsensical guide, but it is also a delight to read, a lyrical tribute to running and runners everywhere
