{"id":207,"date":"2006-11-19T20:08:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T20:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2006\/11\/19\/favorite_books_and_resources\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T20:08:16","slug":"favorite_books_and_resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/favorite_books_and_resources.html","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Books and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just recently I’ve been asked many times for what books out there are good for training. Here is a list of my favorites. I tend to keep away from the coaching books as I have a coach and don’t need training programs or advice. I like to find books that help me understand the scientific and researched aspects of swimming, cycling, and running so that I am not reading some coach’s opinion, but rather facts that have been vetted through scientific methods. Here they are:
\nTotal Immersion by Terry McLaughlin<\/a> – great for body positioning drills but not so good on stroke efficiency. Check out the Total Immersion website<\/a> for great DVDs on swimming.
\nBreakthrough Swimming by Cecil Colwin<\/a> – history of swimming and how it evolved to the strokes used today. Contains lots of research as well.
\nSwimming Fastest by Ernest W. Maglischo<\/a> – lots of science in here – a huge, thick book. Great stuff and the latest on training techniques.
\nLore of Running by Tim Noakes<\/a> – much research into the science of running.
\nPose Method of Running by Dr. Nicholas Romanov<\/a> – training to run on the balls of your feet, much MUCH easier on the knees!
\nSerious Cycling by Ed Burke<\/a> – lots of great research into the science of cycling.
\nWorkouts in a Binder by Gale Bernhardt and Nick Hansen<\/a> – great waterproof workout book to take to the pool and do your own workouts. Workouts range in distance from about 1500m to about 4000m, with the bulk being in mid-2000s to 3000s.
\nWorkouts in a Binder for Swimmers, Triathletes, and Coaches by Eric Hansen<\/a> – like the previous, but only with significantly longer workouts into the 4000s and 5000m range. Great for Ironman training!
\nTraining and Racing with a Power Meter by Andrew Coggan<\/a> – ever since I bought a computrainer and then a PowerTap, I’ve been sold on power training. This book nicely explains it all in one place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just recently I’ve been asked many times for what books out there are good for training. Here is a list of my favorites. I tend to keep away from the coaching books as I have a coach and don’t need training programs or advice. I like to find books that help me understand the scientific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}