Here is a list of books devoted to training. All of these books pertain to running. If you are looking for books for multisport events, please click here.

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Training to Achieve Your Peak Running Performance
Jon Sinclair, Kent Oglesby
Training to Achieve Peak Running Performance by Jon Sinclair and Kent Oglesby with Claudia Piepenburg "is about the fundamental ideas and concepts that are the cornerstone of excellent coaching. By applying these principles and tenants to your own running, you'll discover how to "break through" and achieve your own PEAK PERFORMANCE."

Advanced Marathoning
Scott Douglas, Pete Pfitzinger
Run faster marathons with hard-core, scientific training! Commitment and hard work are essential, but successful marathoning also takes intelligent preparation. Advanced Marathoning contains all the information you'll need to run faster, peak for multiple marathons without injury, and meet your marathon goal--whether it's running a personal best, qualifying for the Boston Marathon, or winning your age division.

Daniel's Running Formula
Jack Daniels, PHD
Coaching legend Jack Daniels gives you everything you need to put together a complete training program:

* Daniels' VDOT formula for determining your ideal training pace
* Four comprehensive phases of training and how to customize them to fit your individual schedule
* Pacing tables and detailed programs for the 1500 to 3000 meters, 5k to 15k, half marathon, and marathon
* Winning race strategies
* Intensity guidelines to prevent overtraining and injury

Galloway's Book on Running
Jeff Galloway
As a young man, Jeff Galloway traveled the world and entered international running events, satiating his desire to compete and cultivating his love of the sport. He became the "running equivalent to a ski bum," and his book, Galloway's Book on Running, retains that laid-back feel while still managing to be an incredibly comprehensive source. Anecdotal and engaging, the book opens with an American running history and the Five Stages of a Runner, which sets a bar by which you can measure yourself and minimize "the pitfalls and maximize the gains of your running future." Galloway then describes how the three levels of training--base, hills, speed--are crucial to enhancing and improving performance.

Lore Of Running
Tim Nokes, MD

Revised, expanded and updated, Lore of Running gives you incomparable detail on physiology, training, racing, injuries, world-class athletes, and races.

Author Tim Noakes blends the expertise of a physician and research scientist with the passion of a dedicated runner to answer the most pressing questions for those who are serious about the sport:

- How your body systems respond to training, the effects of different training methods, how to detect and avoid overtraining, and genetic versus trainable potential
- How to train for the 10K up through ultramarathon with detailed programs from Noakes and several leading running experts
- How to prevent and treat injuries and increase your strength and flexibility for maximum performance

The book provides a fascinating look at the legendary figures and events in running history. And that's just scratching the surface. Lore of Running is not only the biggest and best running publication on the planet. It's the one book every runner should own.

Run WIth The Champions
In Run with the Champions, award-winning running writer Marc Bloom feeds the voracious appetite of America's growing running population in two ways: by creating a unique system to objectively rank the nation's top 25 male and top 25 female runners of all time, and by revealing their little-known training secrets and strategies, from what they ate to how they trained for their biggest victories. Any average runner can benefit from the insights and advice offered by running legends like Frank Shorter, Alberto Salazar, Joan Samuelson, and Lynn Jennings. The rankings themselves are expected to create a buzz in the large running community, and the affiliation with Runner's World--the world's leading authority on running--will ensure credibility. This comprehensive book is at once an exciting compendium on elite runners and a terrific training manual.

Running To The Top
Arthur Lydiard
Arthur Lydiard's ideas are "outdated"???? Hardly. Lydiard was responsible for the training that led to world domination by successive waves of New Zealanders, Finns, and Africans. Ingrid Kristiansen's Lydiard-like training enabled her to set a marathon record that stood for 15 years. Peter Snell's 4:54 mile time, 30 years ago, would still place him high in many international competitions. As for American runners who criticize Lydiard--to quote Peter Snell, "Where are the results?" The basics of ALL distance training is endurance and aerobic development. Lydiard's advice in this regard remains unexcelled. Let the Africans train at threshold pace. They also weigh less than 118 lbs on average, compared to Americans' 130+. Let's see what a 115-lb US runner can do against them on Lydiard's training regime. Then we'll talk about "outdated." This is a great book.

The Runners Book of Training Secrets
Train with the pros!

More than 50 world-class runners reveal the secrets of their success--and a top sports physiologist explains how their training methods can work for you, whether you've been running for a day or a decade.

Turbo-charge your performance with expert advice on speed training, strength training, nutrition and supplementation, cross-training, stretching, masters running, peaking, injury prevention and much more!