"All
health enthusiasts, coaches, athletic trainers, parents of young
athletes, and especially runners from beginner to elite will
benefit from this in-depth book. The special emphasis on
nutrition, mental training and inspiration (in addition to the
physical training) will be of interest to athletes of all ages.
Techniques in this book can make you faster, stronger, more
flexible, and overall a healthier athlete to make you conquer your
inner-self, to give you the "winning edge", and to make
you a champion. With body, mind, and spirit each fully used and
all in harmony, the body can be stretched to higher and sometimes
surprising performance. This book will do just that while you
engage in the serious play of athletic excellence.
I know of no other body of work on this subject that is so inclusive and practical. It is absolutely outstanding."
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Payton Jordan
Head
Track Coach Stanford University 1957-1979
1968 U.S. Olympic Track Coach
"Here
it is, from sole to soul, a most thorough compendium of essential
body, mind, spirit training for all fitness and sports
enthusiasts, especially runners. Earl is truly a man of vast
knowledge coupled with world-class experience."
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Jerry Lynch, Ph. D., Sports Psychologist
Author
of Thinking Body, Dancing Mind and Running Within.
"I have an extensive library on running publications. I can honestly say this is one of the best books around. If I was to keep one running book only, it would be yours."
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Barry Almond,
USA Master Runner
"One can search the web or the libraries of the country and not be exposed to the wealth that's in Earl Fee's book. It's just a marvellous distillation of the best and brightest wisdom on track at the moment along with personal insight gleaned in this marvellous master's career."
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Ken Stone
USA Webmaster for www.masterstrack.com
"Not since Tim Noakes' Lore of Runing have I encountered such a comprehensive tome on our sport."
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John Remington
Book Review in Ontario Road Runner, 2001/2002
“Simply marvellous book.” “Excellent.” “Awesome tome.” “Unbelievably comprehensive and thorough on wide variety of health aspects.” “Excellent for people in general and for coaches and athletes in particular.”
“Consolidates and builds on the lore of running. Easy to follow and easy to apply.” “A great piece of work.” “Can’t put it down.” “I collect books on running and this is my favorite.” “The $20US investment will be the very best money ever spent on a track item.” “In the same league as Jack Daniels' book.”
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Miscellaneous comments from many satisfied readers.
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Skills
and Knowledge
Note nearly all below incorporate partly or wholly original
material, or a modern method of training.
- Physiology:
Understand the five energy systems, the heart, the respiratory
system, and how the body reacts to training.
- Mental
techniques: for relaxing your mind and body, to focus, think
positive, overcome prerace or precompetition jitters, and become
mentally tough.
- How
to perfect proper, efficient running form.
- How
to build an aerobic base to allow strength for future
intense aerobic/anaerobic training.
- How
to run hills efficiently and the benefits for many
sports.
- Understand
and profit from the 24 basic principles of training--most
of them original.
- Understand
the importance of central nervous system neural training
for older athletes to retain speed.
- Training
techniques of the sprinters to develop your speed and speed
endurance.
- Knowledge
of the five training systems: how distance runners train
in the five corresponding energy systems, e.g., how much, what
speed, what rest and what purpose?
- Middle
distance training. How to train for 800 metre, 1500 metre
and mile races.
- Long
distance training. How to train for 5K, 10K, and marathon
races.
- Long
Run Pool Method. How to increase your marathon long run to
26 miles or more by running part of it in the pool.
- How
to design your own distance training schedule.
- How
to train by running in the pool from an expert, to become
stronger and more flexible.
- How
to stretch properly using the essential stretches and the
different, modern stretching methods.
- Recovery:
How to recover after a race, a competition or after training,
and the importance of giving the heart a rest.
- How
to do self massage using the sports massage movements
recommended by the experts.
- What
type of training shoes are most suitable for your
particular needs?
- How
to avoid specific injuries by learning what causes each
of the major injuries. How to treat acute injuries.
- Nutrition:
How to eat properly to maximize energy, avoid disease and
indigestion, and live a higher quality life for decades longer.
- How
to reduce body fat and achieve an understanding of proper
fat consumption, e.g., to eat the right fats in the right
quantities.
- Knowledge
of the benefits of creatine supplementation to increase
performance in athletics, e.g., for weight training, cycling,
running, and rowing.
- Training
techniques and exercises in weight training.
- Hurdles:
Training techniques and drills for high hurdles, and long
hurdles.
- Tactics
to be used in middle and long distance running races.
- Mistakes
to avoid before a race or competition, which can wipe out a
lot of your valuable training, or result in failure.
- Valuable
original formulas to determine: your maximum heart rate,
VO2max, body fat percentage, rest time between
anaerobic intervals, potential for heat stroke, and distance and
time in the pool for an equivalent land workout.
- Training
and precautions for young and old athletes including the
highly competitive.
- How
to avoid a heart attack.
- Longevity:
How to age slower, and live longer with a higher quality of
life. For example, improve your sex life.
Additional
Benefits
- Be inspired
by over 150 quotations, all pertaining to achievement of
success.
- Be motivated
by inspirational poetry pertaining to athletes and
Olympians.
- Learn
valuable training secrets about running, fitness and a
healthy/active life style.
- Use this 404
page book also as a reference book on running and fitness.
Biography
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Earl retired in 1994 after 35 years as a nuclear engineer
supervisor and consultant designing CANDU nuclear power stations
for the production of electricity.
His diverse engineering expertise was mainly in fluid
mechanics and heat transfer analysis.
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The scientific experience of writing many demanding and exact
nuclear reports no doubt contributed largely to his clear,
concise and complete writing style. In addition he is well known
from writing feature articles on running training in the US
National Masters News.
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In 1986 he started training for the 400 meters and middle
distance running events after a 33 year absence from running
since University. In the past 16 years he has broken over 30
world records (28 existing) in the following events: 300 and 400
meter hurdles, 400 meters, 800 meters, 1500 meters and mile.
Many of his 800 meter times are age graded at 100% or over where
100% is equivalent to the open world record.
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During 1987-2002 he was four times Ontario Masters Track &
Field Athlete of the year, five times Mississauga (population
over 0.5M) Master Athlete of the Year, five times Canadian
Masters Championship Athlete of the meet, and Canadian cross
country champion in his age group over 12 times. Basically these
accomplishments involved the same dogged determination and
dedication that enabled him to win six scholarships and two
fellowships at University including an Athlone Fellowship for
two years graduate study in England.
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Earl beside being an accomplished runner, writer and engineer,
is also a Toastmaster (over 50 speeches given), poet (about 100
poems written), house designer, and artist. But his greatest
love is running. This shows in his knowledgeable, in-depth and concise
writing on the subject— knowledge
gathered from eight world masters track and field championships,
and the observation of effects of intensive training on his own
body for the past 16 years.
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Now at age 73 in 2002 this consistent training and a healthy life style
has contributed to a maximum
heart rate of over 190, a resting heart rate of
45, body weight 70kg,
and a body fat of about 5 percent.
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His book on body, mind and spirit training took between 2500 and
3000 hours over the past six years.
Consultations with Earl Fee
Find out immediately what you are doing wrong in running training or in your general lifestyle. Improve performance more rapidly. Avoid injury or heal quicker. Increase energy, improve immune system, etc.
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Phone 905-828-0051. If I am out, suggest time for me to return call.
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Come prepared with questions on running, training and general fitness, to be discussed in order of priority. Typical questions are on mental and physical training, nutrition, injury, stretching, recovery, running in the pool, etc.
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If I believe I cannot help, some questions will not be answered.
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Interviews are charged at the following rate:
$30 US/hour or $17 US/half hour
$40 CDN/hour or $22 CDN/half hour
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Follow-up or summary by email if requested will be charged at same rate as above.
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Completed interviews will be invoiced. Pay on receipt of invoice by cheque only. US customers pay in US dollars.
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