A successful educational guide to fitness, nutrition and understanding the body for novice runners.
This nonfiction guide to exercise and nutrition for runners lays out foundational facts and supplies useful techniques and recipes to keep a runner’s fitness routine fresh.
Starting with the basics, debut author McLaurin dives into the mechanics of running, with visual and textual representations of the muscle groups used during each stride. While many beginning runners believe that running is all in the legs, the author explains the importance of the core, hips and back muscles, as well as the crucial balance a runner needs between the upper and lower body. Seasoned runners might consider this information basic, but a new runner will find the explanatory chapters incredibly useful in laying the foundation for a self-propelled fitness program. Once the fundamentals are explained, McLaurin delivers specific exercises to target the core, back, chest, arms and legs. Most exercises are catered toward the runner without a gym membership who can use body weight and easy-to-find tools like medicine balls and hand weights rather than heavy fitness machinery. There are enough exercise types to build a weekly plan with variety, targeting different muscle groups in each workout. Not only does the author stress balance in muscular strength, he also stresses the importance of runner nutrition, highlighting some myths and misnomers. One such myth, the need for excessive protein, is busted through a simple yet well-formulated explanation of the way the body uses macronutrients. Readers don’t need a degree in dietetics to understand McLaurin’s clear explanation of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and metabolism. In the back of the book, the contributing writers, who also happen to be major names in the running community, offer recipes and tips—an added bonus for runners who want to follow the legends of marathon and ultramarathon running.
A successful educational guide to fitness, nutrition and understanding the body for novice runners.Pub Date: May 27, 2014
ISBN: 978-0692026953
Page Count: 170
Publisher: RunnerDude's Fitness
Review Posted Online: Dec. 31, 2014
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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