Cross country running is a demanding sport, and how you train can mean the difference between leading the race or bringing up the rear. Now you can be prepared! 101 Developmental Concepts & Workouts for Cross Country Runners gives you the best workouts and explains the most important training concepts.

Get insider information about:

• How to train systematically and efficiently
• Aerobic and anaerobic training
• Lactate threshold workouts
• VO₂max intervals
• Hills and fartleks
• Cross country games
• Race strategy and tactics
• Developing strength, power, and flexibility

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Coaches Choice (July 6, 2010)
ISBN: 978-1606791165

Most runners run races without giving much thought as to how they’re going to run the race. They just pay their entry fee and run, or run with their teammates, without any intention to their actions, hoping for a good result. Successful racing takes knowledge, planning, and execution. And a little courage. 101 Winning Racing Strategies for Runners offers the most comprehensive guide for running winning races.

Get insider information about:

• How to run smarter races
• Race strategy and tactics
• Winning training for racing strategies
• Winning pre-race strategies
• Winning during race strategies
• Winning mental strategies

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Paperback: 95 pages
Publisher: Coaches Choice (February 14, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1606791981

“Time is perhaps the main influencer of how much people exercise. Most people claim they never have enough of it. But everyone has 14 minutes.”  – DR. JASON KARP, 14-Minute Metabolic Workouts

14-Minute Metabolic Workouts includes a variety of compact, science-based workouts that target the five components of physical fitness—cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, body composition, and flexibility. The book includes cardio intervals, sprint intervals, muscular strength, power, and endurance workouts, circuits, plyometrics, and flexibility workouts. The book also includes workouts that can done at the gym, at home, or outside, and cleverly puts them all together in a menu of workouts to create a complete training program. 14-Minute Metabolic Workouts is the solution to everyone’s time problem, giving you amazing results in 14 minutes or less. 

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse (June 27, 2017)
ISBN: 978-1510717947

Anatomy Training is a collection of Jason Karp’s selected articles that first appeared in the United Kingdom’s Ultra-Fit magazine for its best body series. Each article, presented as a chapter in this 56-page e-book, focuses on a specific body part, first describing its anatomy and then providing specific exercises and workouts.

Chapter 1: Fab Abs
Chapter 2: Tighter Butt
Chapter 3: Caveman Chest
Chapter 4: Beautiful Back
Chapter 5: Sexy Thighs
Chapter 6: Popeye Biceps
Chapter 7: Shapely Shoulders
Chapter 8: Cool Calves

Getting your PhD is not easy, and the decisions you make prior to and during your doctoral work can mean the difference between having a PhD in four years or eight. By making just about every possible mistake on his way to getting his PhD, Jason Karp is perhaps the only person to have personally researched every mistake you can possibly make in an academic institution. How to Survive Your PhD shows you what to avoid, what you should be doing, and how to make the best use of your time and resources.

Get insider information on:

• Choosing the right school
• Picking the right academic advisor and committee members
• Managing your time
• Thinking like a doctoral student
• Dealing with finances
• Writing the dissertation
• How to study for qualifying exams
• Dissertation defense
• And much more!

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks (December 1, 2009)
ISBN: 978-1402226670

LET’S PARTY!

October 19-20, 2019

Meet, run, and network with other REVO₂LUTION RUNNING™ certified professionals from around the U.S. and the world at our annual weekend retreat in San Diego, California! Immerse yourself in the running culture, network with other professionals (bring business cards!), hang out at the beach, and attend seminars on running and growing your business with founder and chief running officer Dr. Jason Karp.

$69 + travel to San Diego (and the sunscreen you’ll need for the beach!)

“If you want to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life, it pays to become a runner. Or at least someone who runs.”  – DR. JASON KARP, Run Your Fat Off

Running is the most effective exercise to burn calories and lose weight. Despite its effectiveness, it has been largely neglected by the weight loss experts. Until now. Dr. Jason Karp’s unique expertise as a researcher, running coach, and lifelong runner is translated into a practical running-for-weight-loss program. The book includes both running and nutrition menus and recipes, blending scientific research with inspirational stories of people who have lost weight through running. Through the partitioning of calories, Run Your Fat Off makes you the director of the calorie movie, dictating where your calories go and how they are used so you can achieve permanent weight loss.

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Reader’s Digest (March 14, 2017)
ISBN: 978-1621453352

10% of the profit on every book sold will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure^® in the memory of the author’s mother and the American Heart Association in memory of the author’s father.

To paraphrase the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, “A journey of 26.2 miles begins with a single step.” From the time the ancient Greek runner Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. to announce the Greeks’ victory in the Battle of Marathon, humans have had a compelling interest in taking that single step, and many more after that. Running a Marathon For Dummies shows you how to take 26.2 miles’ worth of steps to run a marathon, whether it’s your first one or fastest one.

The comprehensive and smartly written 360-page book, part of the highly successful For Dummies brand, covers everything all runners need to know about the marathon, including shoe selection, ten things you must do on marathon race day, secrets of the long run, and how to avoid injuries. It even offers 20-week training programs for beginner, intermediate, and advanced runners and provides information on top destination marathons around the world.

Whether you want to run a marathon just for the thrill of it or qualify for the Boston Marathon, Running a Marathon For Dummies will get you to the start line… and the finish line! The marathon truly is different from any other running race. It unites people. It changes people’s lives. And it will change yours.

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Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Wiley (November 13, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1118343081

10% of the profit on every book sold will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure^® in memory of the author’s mother.

“The female runner’s training program must always be open to change, moving a workout here or there based on how you feel, or backing off on the training load altogether when certain conditions arise, like amenorrhea, pregnancy, or anemia.”  – DR. JASON KARP, Running for Women

There are obvious differences between women and men in anatomy, physiology, hormones, and metabolism. So why do running books take a one-sex-fits-all approach to training? Finally, here’s one that doesn’t.

Running for Women provides comprehensive information on training female runners based on their cardiovascular, hormonal, metabolic, muscular, and anatomical characteristics.

This authoritative guide tackles the topics women need to know:

• The impact of the menstrual cycle on hydration, body temperature, metabolism, and muscle function
• The most effective workouts for endurance, speed and strength, lactate threshold, and VO₂max
• How and when to train during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause
• Preventing knee injuries, stress fractures, and other female- specific running-related injuries
• Avoiding the risks of the female athlete triad—disordered eating, osteoporosis, and menstrual irregularities
• How to use sex differences to your advantage

Based on the latest research on estrogen, metabolism, and other sex-specific performance factors, Running for Women will change the way you fuel, train, and compete. If you’re serious about running, this is one book you must own.

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Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Human Kinetics (June 14, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1450404679

10% of the profit on every book sold will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure^® in memory of the author’s mother.

Are you an injured runner? Want to prevent yourself from getting injured ever again? There’s really no good reason why so many runners should get injured. Yet it happens all the time, mostly because so many runners don’t train intelligently, or they follow programs that are faulty in design. In the concise 17-page e-book, Secrets of Running Injury Prevention, Dr. Jason Karp shares his secrets of how to never get injured from running, enabling you to run healthier and better!

The Fat-Burning Zone: Myth or Magic – An Anthology of Fitness Articles is a special collection of fifteen of Dr. Jason Karp’s fitness articles that have appeared in various magazines around the world. From treadmill training to the top 3 cardio workouts to the fat-burning zone, this 89-page e-book will make you the fittest you’ve ever been!

Chapter 1: Resting Metabolic Rate
Chapter 2: Know Your Fitness Level
Chapter 3: The Best Types of Cardio Equipment
Chapter 4: Weight Training for Beginners
Chapter 5: Weight Machines vs. Free Weights
Chapter 6: Fat-Burning Zone: Myth or Magic?
Chapter 7: Top 3 Cardio Workouts
Chapter 8: High School P.E. Class Revisited
Chapter 9: 15-Minute Workouts
Chapter 10: Interval Training
Chapter 11: Old Way, New Way
Chapter 12: Busting Through Plateaus
Chapter 13: Treadmill Training
Chapter 14: The Art and Science of Recovery
Chapter 15: Fitness Myths, Misconceptions, and Misinformation

“Running is about how much we can put ourselves on the line, literally and figuratively, to measure up against our true selves and narrow the gap between who we
are and who we want to be.”  – DR. JASON KARP, The Inner Runner

Why are so many people drawn to running? Why is running the most common physical activity? What is it about running that empowers so many people? And how can runners harness that power to create a more meaningful life? The Inner Runner addresses these questions and a whole lot more.

This book is not about how to get faster or run a marathon; rather, it examines how running affects every part of our lives and how all of the parts are intimately interconnected to each other and to the whole person. It explores what it means to be a runner, how the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other helps you become a better person and provides a path to a more meaningful, more creative, more imaginative, more productive, more confident, more healthful, and more successful life. The Inner Runner is as much about life as it is about running.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse (April 12, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1634507950

10% of the profit on every book sold will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure^® in the memory of the author’s mother and the American Heart Association in memory of the author’s father.