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It takes only 12 weeks to train to compete in a triathlon"no matter what level you're at now! Imagine being able to successfully compete in a triathlon in just three short months! You can, with fitness expert Tom Holland's all-encompassing, easy-to-use training manual, The 12-Week Triathlete. This completely revised and updated edition gives fitness enthusiasts the most exciting, encouraging, and up-to-date exercise information, including 12 brand-new...
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Get Ready to Run! A complete guide to training for a half or full marathon in sixteen weeks, this book follows the format of Tom's previous book The 12-Week Triathlete with simply the best advice on how to run your fastest race while staying injury-free. Whether you are a first-time marathoner, trying to set a new "PR" or looking to qualify for Boston, this book is for you. "TRAIN LESS AND RUN YOUR BEST" Some worry that running a marathon will involve...
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Ditch the gym! It's not about how long you exercise-or where-but about the type of moves you do. Bowflex Fitness Advisor Tom Holland introduces micro-workouts for optimal health that will help you achieve the body you want.
Does the prospect of spending long hours at the gym deter you from exercising? Tom Holland has a much better approach: "excessive moderation" utilizing manageable micro-workouts that provide maximum, long-term results by engaging...
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It's race day and you have your quick-closure running shoes, sleek suits, bikes, goggles, and watches, but if you haven't been training with the proper nutrition, you'll be left in the dust in the third mile.
Enter Swim, Bike, Run-Eat to guide you through day one of training to the finish line and help your body perform at the peak of fitness. In this book, an ideal companion to author Tom Holland's The 12-Week Triathlete, he will join sports dietitian...
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xxiii, 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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In 480 B.C.E., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory--rapid, spectacular victory--had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. They had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet....
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xxi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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Recounts the fall of the Roman Republic, tracing the events that marked the final century B.C. and discussing such topics as the rise of Alexandria and the contributions of such figures as Caesar, Cleopatra, Brutus, and Augustus. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland's enthralling account tells the story...