Barefoot Running Step by Step Barefoot Ken Bob, The Guru of Shoeless Running, Shares His Personal Technique For Running With More Speed, Less Impact, Fewer Leg Inguries, and More Fun
by Wallack, Roy; Saxton, KenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-05-01
Publisher(s): Fair Winds Press
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Summary
Barefoot running has garnered lots of attention due to the mega-bestseller Born to Run while top athletic companies like Nike and Adidas are declaring barefoot running the next big thing. However, barefoot running involves more than simply taking off your shoes and hitting the track and this guide teaches runners how to train their feet and body to run barefoot properly and in a way that will dramatically reduce injuries. The Complete Book of Barefoot Runningseparates the facts from the hype covering the latest research and running techniques behind this key trend. Written by noted running journalist and barefooter Roy Wallack this guide outlines proper techniques for running barefoot properly and incorporating the practice into their running regimen for a better stride, longer endurance, and fewer injuries.
Author Biography
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Ken Bob Saxton is the leading instructor of barefoot running in the country, featured in Runner's World, The New York Times, and the bestseller Born to Run, by Chris McDougall, who calls Ken Bob “The Master of Barefoot Running.” He has completed more than 75 marathons barefoot (and one marathon in shoes), including running the Boston Marathon several times and surviving an astounding marathon-a-month challenge in 2004, which he topped with 16 marathons in 2006, including 4 marathons in a 15-day period—all barefoot. “Barefoot” Ken Bob, as he is popularly known, has trained thousands of people across the country in person at his workshops and educated thousands of new barefoot runners throughout the world, from Mumbai to Oslo, via his popular website www.TheRunningBarefoot.com.
Roy M. Wallack is a Los Angeles Times health and fitness columnist and former editor of Triathlete and Bicycle Guide magazines. A participant some of the world's toughest running, cycling, and multisport events, including the Boston Marathon, Badwater UltraMarathon, Eco-Challenge, La Ruta de los Conquistadores, and TransRockies Run, he finished second in the World Fitness Championship in 2004. Wallack has written for Outside, Men's Journal, Runner's World, Competitor, Bicycling, Mountain Bike, and authored The Traveling Cyclist: 20 Worldwide Tours of Discovery (1991) and Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100 (2005), an athletic longevity plan for cyclists.
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