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Supplements for Endurance Athletes—12-23-09

This week’s “Human Kinetics Corner” for Members is an audio excerpt from the Human Kinetics book entitled Supplements for Endurance Athletes by Jose Antonio and Jeffrey Stout. With this book you can cut through all the hype and find the information you need on 20 top supplements. Find out which supplements to use–and which to [...]

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The Endurance Planet Hour—12-22-2009

This week on the Endurance Planet Hour we hear from former World number-one ranked triathlete Barb Lindquist who will be inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame in February. Lindquist talks about how her lowest moment ultimately produced the best results in her life and career. We also hear from Running Times trail running [...]

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Energy Every Day—12-18-2009

This week we’re opening a new Human Kinetics book. It’s entitled, Energy Every Day. There’s a worldwide energy crisis that has nothing to do with fossil fuels or nuclear and solar power. It’s a crisis of personal energy. You’re working longer hours, sleeping less, and spending less time being active. But this is one [...]

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The Endurance Planet Hour—12-08-2009

The theme of this week’s Endurance Planet Hour is goal-setting. We’ll be hearing from an EP regular who had a goal in 2009 of running a sub-three-hour marathon and is now focused on 2010. We’ll speak with elite endurance athlete Lisa Smith-Batchen of Dreamchasers Outdoor Adventure Club who knows all about keeping fit in the [...]

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The Runner’s Edge—12-04-2009

This week we’re opening a new Human Kinetics offering. It’s a book called The Runner’s Edge. Elite runners have long relied on technology to analyze performance, maximize training, and challenge the competitive boundaries of the sport. Serious runners long sought the same advantages only to be confronted with a costly and complicated process. Not [...]

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The Endurance Planet Hour—12-01-2009

How do you train for your first ultramarathon? That’s the big question we tackle today on The Endurance Planet Hour. Koach Karl will lay out the basics of the ultramarathon plan for newbies. We also speak with Ironman veteran Steve Rink who recently completed Ironman Arizona with his always-present positive attitude and his catch-phrase “fresh [...]

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The Endurance Planet Hour—11-25-2009

This week on the Endurance Planet Hour we hear from Charles Kastner, the author of Bunion Derby: The 1928 Footrace Across America. We also share an extended recording of the book itself about the amazing race that history seems to have forgotten. Later in the hour, Coach Ryan Ross joins us to talk about [...]

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Ironwoman—11-25-2009

In last week’s Human Kinetics corner we heard from the chapter entitled Marathon Man from the book Second Wind: Rise of the Ageless Athlete. This week we open the chapter entitled Ironwoman and heard about a Baby Boomer who just keeps getting faster.
Ironwoman—11-25-2009

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Second Wind: Rise of the Ageless Athlete—11-20-2009

Our weekly Human Kinetics Corner episode (our members only download) focuses this week on an inspiring book. Second Wind: The Rise of the Ageless Athlete is an inspiring account of a growing subculture of Americans who are challenging the notion of what it means to grow old. These baby boomers can hardly be considered old, [...]

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