Zusatztext This guy is a miracle worker.Christopher McDougall! New York Times bestselling author of Born to Run Informationen zum Autor Eric Orton 's experiences with the Tarahumara and his study of running! human performance! strength! and conditioning have led him to the cutting edge of the sport and made him the go-to guy for athletes everywhere. Chris McDougall is just one of the coach's many success stories. The former fitness director for the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center! Orton now personally oversees the training of dozens of athletes! from recreational racers to elite ultramarathoners. Klappentext Featured in the bestselling book "Born to Run!" coach and performance guru Orton has spent a lifetime learning and thinking about running and about the limitless possibilities of the human body and mind. You In Glorious Jackson Hole Okay. enough about me and the near past. This is about you and your near future. You, the athleteand I use that word with full consideration and intent. Because wherever you are in your running life, you can make the choice to be an athlete. You can adopt that mind-set and make it your own defining essence. Being an athlete is not something you're born with. That's a misconception, a myth, really, that is all too often also an impedimentor, even worse, an excuse. Being an athlete is a choice. And making that choice, taking up that mind-set, is the step that allows you to move toward a new level of achievement. That's what this book is about. And that's what I'm going to ask of you. The truth is, athleticism is awareness. That simple phrase is at the core of my program. When I say, Athleticism is awareness, what I mean is that to be an athlete means you are someone who is aware of your form and technique; aware of how you move your body; aware of your effort level, of your breathing pattern; aware of what you eat (and don't eat); and, most important, aware of what you think (and don't think). We will go deeper into that idea later, but first we need to address the physical side of things. I believe firmly that the mind follows the body. And when the mind follows a good body, it gets to the right place. So that is where we will begin the journeyyour journeyto the Cool Impossible. To get started, I am going to ask you to look at things maybe a little differently than you've looked at them in the past. I'm going to introduce you to some new ideas and concepts and ask you to do some new things that will help to catapult your running to another level and help you get everything that you want out of every mile. Along the way, I am going to challenge you to go above and beyond what you think is possible for yourself, for your running, and, I hope, even your life. And to be clear, this process, this challengethis opportunityis open to every runner. This book is for you whether you're a beginner, or a veteran hoping to reclaim that beginner's enthusiasm and sense of possibility; whether you're a dedicated competitor, gearing your efforts to improvements in time and placings at key races, or a recreational runner, excited about the social aspects of the sport; whether you're someone whose running has been interrupted or compromised by chronic injury, or an enthusiastic experimenter inspired by visions of barefoot running, the Tarahumara Indians, and other adventures. This commitment to awareness willlike Frost's choice between two roads diverging in a woodmake all the difference. One element of what you will learn later is how important and powerful a role visualization plays in performance. The mind follows the body and, in turn, performance follows the mind. But harnessing that sequence, controlling it and making it work for us to carry us to where we want to go, is a challengeand one that often goes unrecognized. W...

ldquo;This guy is a miracle worker.”—Christopher McDougall, New York Times bestselling author of Born to Run

Autorentext
Eric Orton’s experiences with the Tarahumara and his study of running, human performance, strength, and conditioning have led him to the cutting edge of the sport and made him the go-to guy for athletes everywhere. Chris McDougall is just one of the coach’s many success stories. The former fitness director for the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Orton now personally oversees the training of dozens of athletes, from recreational racers to elite ultramarathoners.

Klappentext

Featured in the bestselling book "Born to Run," coach and performance guru Orton has spent a lifetime learning and thinking about running and about the limitless possibilities of the human body and mind.

Zusammenfassung
Featured in the bestselling book Born to Run, coach and performance guru Eric Orton has spent a lifetime learning and thinking about running and about the limitless possibilities of the human body and mind. In The Cool Impossible, Orton shares his wealth of knowledge in an inspiring step-by-step guide that will open up a new world of achievement for runners of all levels of ability and experience.  

The truth is: Athleticism is awareness. That simple phrase is at the core of The Cool Impossible. Athleticism requires awareness of form and technique, awareness of our effort level, and, most important, awareness of what we think (and don’t think). And with that awareness comes the possibility of endless potential and improvement, progress and mastery—and, ultimately, achievement that you never before would have thought possible.

With a program focused on proper running form, strength development, and cardiovascular training, Orton will help first-step beginners, prime-time competitors, and enduring veterans reach “the cool impossible”—the belief that any achievement, athletic or otherwise, is within our reach. Inside you’ll find:

• Foot strength exercises to catapult performance, combat injuries, and transform technique

• A total-body strength program aimed at creating an athletic running body

• Step-by-step run-form coaching for performance enhancement and lifelong healthy running

• A run-training program providing the building blocks for endurance, strength, and speed

• No-nonsense nutrition strategies for performance, health, and the ultimate running body

• Visualization and mind-training tactics to run and live the Cool Impossible

*And much more…

Natural running is about so much more than barefoot running. It’s about the joy of running that we were all naturally born with and can reawaken. Like a favorite running companion, The Cool Impossible will be there with you, stride for stride and mile for mile, helping you go farther than you ever could have on your own.

Includes a foreword by Christopher McDougall

Leseprobe

You In Glorious Jackson Hole

Okay. enough about me and the near past.

This is about you and your near future. You, the athlete—and I use that word with full consideration and intent. Because wherever you are in your running life, you can make the choice to be an athlete. You can adopt that mind-set and make it your own defining essence. Being an athlete is not something you’re “born with.” That’s a misconception, a myth, really, that is all too often also an impediment—or, even worse, an excuse. Being an athlete is a choice. And making that choice, taking up that mind-set, is the step that allows you to move toward a new level of achievement. That’s what this book is about. And that’s what I’m going to ask of you.

The truth is, athleticism is awareness. That simple phrase is at the core of my program. When I say, “Athleticism is awareness,” what I mean is that to be an athlete means you are someone who is aware of your form and technique; aware of how you move your body; aware of your effort level, of your brea…