Paula Newby-Fraser's Peak Fitness for Women - Softcover

Newby-Fraser, Paula; Mora, John M.

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9780873226721: Paula Newby-Fraser's Peak Fitness for Women

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ISBN 10: 0873226720 ISBN 13: 9780873226721

Publisher: Human Kinetics, 1995

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Go beyond the basics of training with Paula Newby-Fraser's Peak Fitness for Women! In this book, seven-time Hawaii Ironman champion Paula Newby-Fraser presents a total fitness program that shows you how to overcome personal barriers and realize your athletic potential in training and competition.
Inside you'll find practical, no-nonsense information on flexibility training, strength training, and cross-training. You'll also learn how to stay motivated, how to mentally prepare for a competition, how to read the physical signals that your body needs rest, how to meet the unique nutritional needs of female athletes, and much more.
Most importantly, the book tells you how to put it all together and develop a successful training schedule that fits into your busy lifestyle.
Learn from the "greatest all-around female athlete in the world" what it takes to achieve optimal fitness and perform your best in competition!

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About the Author:

Paula Newby-Fraser may be the most highly fit and finely tuned athlete ever. This eight-time Gatorade� Ironman Triathlon world champion is also the Ironman world record holder with a time of 8:55:24. In fact, she owns seven of the ten best-ever women’s Ironman times and has been inducted into the Ironman Hall of Fame. Few, if any, athletes dominate a sport as Paula has for the last decade.

Yet it wasn’t always so. Paula confesses to being an "out-of-shape couch potato" until age 20. But once she embraced the concept of peak fitness, she left South Africa and moved to the United States to pursue her dream of becoming a professional triathlete. She won her first Ironman World Championship in 1986, and since that time she has continued to surpass her competition in triathlons and other distance races around the world.

In 1990 The Women’s Sports Foundation honored Paula with the Professional Sportswoman of the Year Award, and Triathlete Magazine voted her Triathlete of the Year. She was named Professional Female Athlete of the Decade by the Los Angeles Times, and ABC’s Wide World of Sports proclaimed her the Greatest All-Around Female Athlete in the World in 1989.

Paula understands how difficult it can be to adhere to a training program, so she coauthored this book to help other women who want to rise above their current fitness levels and realize their athletic potential.

Paula lives and trains in Encinitas, a town on the California coastline.

John M. Mora is a nationally known sports, health and fitness, and medical writer. He has published more than 100 articles in magazines such as American Health, Women’s Sports and Fitness, and Runner’s World. He is president of John M. Mora Creative Communications, a company that specializes in writing promotional copy for businesses in the health and fitness industry.

John has competed across the country in 8 marathons, 50 running and cycling events, and 30 triathlons. He lives in LaGrange Highlands, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

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Seven-time Ironman triathlon champion Newby-Fraser presents guidelines, techniques, and principles for female athletes--especially experienced runners, bikers, and swimmers--to attain peak fitness. Reaching peak fitness, she says, involves three components--cardiovascular conditioning, strength workouts, and flexibility training. To master them, she offers a series of static stretching exercises, a strength-training workout plan, training schedules, advice on nutrition and fluid requirements, and counsel on mental preparedness. The 75 photographs and other illustrations will enhance the presentation. Sue-Ellen Beauregard

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